Videotape Editor
Where it started. Frame-accurate storytelling, and a discipline for what the final cut owes the audience.
The Principal · James Media Group
The Broadcast Production Firm For Institutions That Don't Have One.
Meet Obed James. Thirty Years On Live Signals.
When an institution's event cannot fail, it does not hire a crew of strangers. It hires the specialist whose name is on the outcome. One 30-year broadcast engineer designs your show, engineers it, and runs it live, with nothing left to a handoff.
A limited number of dates each quarter, so the specialist on your design is the specialist on your board.
The Principal
The Specialist Who Designs Your Show Is The One Who Runs It.
Obed James, Principal & Broadcast Engineer
Thirty years on live signals, across every seat in the chain: videotape editor, sound engineer, broadcast engineer, video engineer, and systems integrator before the title on the door read consultant. When your event cannot afford to fail, you are not handing it to a company. You are handing it to the person whose name is on it.
Obed James
01 / Why This Firm Exists
The Broadcast Department Most Institutions Don't Have.
Broadcast networks staff a room full of engineers because a live signal is unforgiving. Most corporations, universities, agencies, and venues have the same high-stakes moments. A keynote, a commencement, a hearing, a gala. What they don't have is the in-house engineering a network keeps on payroll.
James Media Group is that department, delivered as one accountable senior specialist. The firm exists so an institution can put a thirty-year broadcast engineer on its most important date without building a broadcast division to do it.
The kind of show that cannot fail is not a job for a rotating crew. It is a job for the one person whose name is on the outcome.
02 / The Career Arc
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Every Seat In The Signal Chain
Thirty years, six disciplines, one chain. Earned in sequence, not skipped. The judgment on your show is the sum of every seat below.
Sound Engineer
The audio spine of every live show is speech intelligibility, mix discipline, and RF that survives a crowded room.
Broadcast Engineer
The core discipline. Signal flow, redundancy, and proving the chain before doors, so what airs is what was engineered.
Video Engineer
Camera shading, IMAG, and LED-wall work matched and switched to broadcast standard on the biggest screen in the room.
Systems Integrator
Permanent infrastructure engineered to last under everything that airs. The room sets the design, and the Dante networks, fiber, racks, and control follow from it.
Consultant
Thirty years of judgment applied before a dollar is spent. The title on the door today, built on every seat before it.
03 / What That Means For You
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One Person Who Has Sat In Every Seat.
Zero Handoffs.
The person who designs your show is the person who advances it and runs it live. Nothing is lost in translation between a sales desk, a designer, and a crew, because they are the same person.
Judgment, Not Guesswork.
When something unexpected happens on show-day, it has been seen before. Thirty years across six disciplines is a library of failure modes already solved.
The Whole Chain, Understood.
Audio, video, streaming, and infrastructure are not separate vendors here. One engineer who has run each of them personally makes them hold together as a single system.
Accountable To The Outcome.
There is no account layer to hide behind. The senior specialist is in the room, on the board, with his name on what the audience sees and hears.
04 / Credentials & Trust
The Standard Behind The Name
Institutional buyers need more than a portfolio. They need to know the specialist is insured, local, and discreet before a single date is booked.
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Fully Insured.
Errors & omissions and professional liability in force. A certificate of insurance is available on request for your venue or procurement team.
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New York Based.
Based in Cambria Heights, New York, and working Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and greater New York. On site for the advance, not just show-day.
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Discreet By Default.
NDA-friendly and named-client-free by policy. Your event is described by sector and scope only, never used as a logo on someone else's page.
The institutions that call me are not shopping for the cheapest crew. They have one date, one room full of the people they answer to, and no margin for a show that fails. That is the only kind of work I take.
Obed JamesPrincipal & Broadcast Engineer · James Media Group
Have A Date That Can't Move?
Tell us the date and the stakes. You will speak with the production specialist who would run your show, not a sales desk.
Questions
Questions Buyers Ask
- Who Is Obed James?
- Obed James is the Principal and broadcast engineer of James Media Group, with thirty years on live signals across six disciplines: videotape editor, sound engineer, broadcast engineer, video engineer, systems integrator, and consultant.
- What Kind Of Work Does He Take?
- Mission-critical institutional events that cannot fail. One date, one room full of the people the client answers to, and no margin for a show that fails. That is the only kind of work he takes.
- Does Obed James Personally Run Every Show?
- Yes. The specialist who designs your show is the one who advances it and runs it live. No account manager, no handoff. A limited number of dates are taken each quarter so the specialist on your design is the specialist on your board.
- Is James Media Group Insured?
- Yes. James Media Group carries errors-and-omissions and professional liability insurance, and a certificate of insurance is available on request.
05 / Contact
Speak With A Production Specialist, Not A Sales Desk.
When you reach out, you reach the production specialist who will run your show, not an account rep. Tell us the date and the stakes, and you will have a reply within one business day.