Production Manager
Craig Johnston is a Seattle-based Internet and multimedia producer with an extensive background in broadcast. He can be reached at
craig@craigjohnston.com.
Will New Year of 3D Drive Lens Technology?
by Craig Johnston, 12.15.2009
What’s driving 3D right now? It’s a counter-offensive by the movie theater owners. More...
Hammering Out the Details of Internships
by Craig Johnston, 10.13.2009
Internships seem to run the gamut from near slave-labor situations to a quarter of which work unsupervised and are given the run of the station. More...
Hiring the Best
by Craig Johnston, 08.20.2009
If you can't learn something from a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, who can you learn it from? More...
Latency Means Late
by Craig Johnston, 04.09.2009
An hour delay for a program was nowhere near a record in those earlier days of television. Before satellite delivery of syndicated programming, shows like "The Mike Douglas Show" were "bicycled" from one station to the next via More...
Taking Over Midway Through a Project
by Craig Johnston, 02.10.2009
In television, there's never a time when anybody but the guy who put the station on the air actually starts with a clean slate. More...
A Modest White Space Proposal
by Craig Johnston, 12.30.2008
I have found it, a modest white spaces proposal that would make Jonathan Swift proud. More...
The Complicated Truth About 5.1 Audio
by Craig Johnston, 11.18.2008
I recently attended a seminar on Dolby 5.1 surround audio for television (hereafter referred to as 5.1), and I got a little bit of knowledge. I'm not sure that makes me dangerous, but it does make me afraid. More...
The Deciders and The Users
by Craig Johnston, 10.15.2008
And as important as input from users is, there's also a need for input from the folks who'll have to fix the equipment you're looking at. More...
Poor Quality Video
by Craig Johnston, 08.06.2008
But whether it had been a problem with one interview or all the interviews, the producers have to make a decision whether or not they can live without the flawed video. Apparently, more and more, the decision is to live with it. More...
The Lowdown on Top Down
by Craig Johnston, 01.23.2008
In fact, carrying out a top-down, companywide directive can be one of the most difficult tasks for a manager. More...
Keep Both HD and SD Viewers Happy
by Craig Johnston, 10.17.2007
News Flash: People are going to be watching TV with low-resolution display devices for a long time into the future. More...
Four Kinds of People
by Craig Johnston, 08.22.2007
Human resource business psychologists seem to be making a good living coming up with this matrix and that, each of which define the differences between certain groupings of employees. More...
Graphic Sounds Crowd Out Quiet Dialog
by Craig Johnston, 04.16.2007
Okay, maybe I should take some of the blame for what I'm going to complain about, because it was my own fault that I watched a "chick" flick on a cable network the other night. More...
Management Policy Deserves Intellectual Rigor
by Craig Johnston, 02.21.2007
I was taught a long time ago, in managing employees at a business (or your own children at home), that if you have to resort to "because I said so," you might get your way, but you've lost the argument. More...