Angus Fraizer Foxley   

Located Near Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Tel. GSM +49 171 650 2667,

Office +49 6171 284 287.

email angus@wtftv.de


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Profile

Married, 3 children, British citizen.

Born Nottingham, England 1962.

Lived in Germany since June 1990.

 

Experience

I.H.A. TV News Agency Germany, Consulting SNG Head Engineer      Nov. 2010 - Feb. 2013

I was working for IHA GmbH designing new SNG vehicles (commissioned a new Vito based SNG I designed for IHA GmbH, which is now based in London) recommending and purchasing equipment to then modernise/build and maintain/improve their existing vehicles and Studio installations (including upgrading to HD transmission capability), as well as training and helping to recruit truck operators. I also travelled extensively as an SNG engineer, doing site surveys for forthcoming events, and as  site coordinator, for example setting up the news operation in Tunis in January 2011,  or running 5 simultaneous transmission paths from the WEF in Davos 2013.

 

Freelance, Own business.                                                                            1999 - Present

Since no longer working for IHA as of Febuary 2013, I've worked for the EBU as Transmission Engineer & Coordinator in Rome, Technical Manager & Show Director for a corporate broadcast in Istanbul and MCR Engineer & Tech. Coord. for AP GMS in Johannesburg for the Mandela Funeral. And as an SNG Engineer for the German Bundesliga- amongst others!

       Over the last 15 years I've worked as a broadcast engineer or Technical Manager for APTN, NBC, CNBC, CNN, NTL and BT as well as for corporate clients, from Munich to Mumbai, Switzerland to Shanghai, Brazil to Berlin, Olympics, dead Popes and live transmissions from inside operating theatres. In the last few years busy in Asia, North America, South America, Africa, India, Australasia, the Middle East and Europe. IÕve been Engineering Manager and Technical Co-ordinator responsible for the complete technical solution of multi-camera shows and live broadcasts, video engineer (shading / racks), uplink engineer, maintenance and installation engineer, cameraman, editor, soundman and OB floor manager. I also run a small business doing standards conversions, tape dubs, daily airline in-flight news programming and some multitrack sound recording.

 

Technical Facilities Manager Worldwide Television News Frankfurt                   1990 - 1999

Responsible for the complete technical facilities at WTNÕs bureau in Frankfurt which initially consisted of PAL and NTSC edit suites, standards conversion and an EBU feed point (1990 - remember SIS?). I was part of the team that I ensured the daily flow of news pictures in and out of Germany and I edited for various broadcasters using the Frankfurt facilities.

        During the 90Õs WTN expanded into Satellite uplinks and with Starbird, the WTN satellite uplink company, I travelled quite extensively working with trucks and flyaway units in Europe and the Middle East, again as Engineer, VT editor and

technical coordinator. I was responsible for the installation of a 3.7M Satellite Antenna on the building roof (at Frankfurt Airport..) and then undertook a complete redesign and rebuild of the Frankfurt MCR and edit areas necessitated by the   expansion to incorporate fibre and Satellite up and downlink connectivity.

 

TechniciŽn, for the EBU at EVC Brussels                                                          1988 - 1990

As a member of the team at the EVC I was involved in coordinating all the EBU transmissions (about 50,000 per year then) on both satellite and terrestrial links, as well as having to do short notice planning of urgent transmissions. It also involved VT operations for the EBU news network. The working languages were French and English.

 

Engineer at the BBC                                                                                         1983 - 1988

I joined as a direct entry graduate trainee, and after the compulsory training courses I attained a post as an engineer in the Technical Services department. This involved the maintenance of TV and radio studios, VT and telecine areas, outside broadcast vehicles and some smaller scale project design and installation work.

I also worked at the BBCs Engineering Training Department, Wood Norton, as a lecturer for 7 months.

 

Education

University College Wales, Swansea                                                                   1980 - 1983

BSc.(Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

A levels Maths, Physics Chemistry. AO Electronics.

Languages

My languages are English (and American!), German, and French.

 

Hobbies

I enjoy outdoor sports such as canoeing, cycling and skiing depending on the season(!), as well as Volleyball with a Òjust for funÓ group. And given the chance I play double & electric basses with a couple of bands in the local area.