Andy Hudson
Following a long career in the entertainment and music industries as a producer/director of major events and TV, Andy has more recently been working in digital infrastructure and content distribution.
His early career in entertainment brought sponsorship into entertainment with some of the very first examples of matching Brands with content. (Brands such as S&N Breweries, Alcan, Pernod). Later with Capital Radio, he created the long-lasting JVC Jazz Parade and the Coca-Cola Capital Radio Music Festival.
As a TV producer he attained many credits for Major TV specials with artistes such as Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Paul Simon, Beach Boys, for major broadcasters Channel 4, LWT, Warner Music and PSB America
Whilst he was MD at Unique (now UBC Media plc)
Created Proms in the Park and BBC Music Live for the BBC.
He was engaged on the EU Digital Watermarking Project (VIVA) in the late 90s.
Andy is used to dealing with large budgets and immense complex issues, and is able to deal with Political matters with a small and a large “P”.
Recently he has been lead consultant on a UK government initiative to find low-cost technical and business solutions for content gathering and distribution with particular reference to Local TV and Mobile markets. The results of this have now become a reality and broadcasts using this new technology begin in 2006.
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