Red Clay Productions

In 1978 exactly two years after high school and the completion of my sophomore year at a State college in Mississippi, I was granted the opportunity to do what might have been willed to me by a form of Devine intervention. Okay, maybe it was just a chance to skip out of a college experience that was going down hill fast. By stroke of luck and a recommendation by a high school classmate, who had been given the same torch, I accepted one of four positions as a broadcast engineer trainee being hosted by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television, the PBS Network for the State. What an awakening! Finally, the mental simulation that a small town boy so desperately needed, the challenge had come.

I packed my blue ’76 Mustang II and headed up the slow paced Natchez Trace Parkway destined for Corinth, Mississippi, located in the North East corner of the state. I was as isolated as the town itself, spending ten months committed only to my study of broadcast electronics and the bed room that I rented from a landlady who spent most of her time in a bird dog position at the door of my single dwelling.

Ten month to get the FCC First Class Radio Telephone license that would pave the way to working every weekend and holiday on the calendar for three or so years. Entry level positions at a television station general started with the master control position or MC for short. It was a huge responsibility, and the lowest pay-It was my poor had writing that saved me from a life time of keeping program logs.

Next stop, tape operator for the production department, let’s say it was like being the coal man in the engine room of the Titanic. Tape guy and girls rock!

I had the notion that I was bigger than Mississippi so I moved to New Orleans, Louisiana and I did and I was. It took six year at the PBS affiliate and nine years at the local NBC affiliate to find my way, and I have.

I now freelance and run my production company. As a freelancer I mostly mix (A1) and/or serve as audio support (A2) for sports and entertainment broadcasters.

Creative people need creative outlets for self-expression, and Red Clay Productions, Inc serves that purpose for me. With Red Clay, I’m able to wear many different hats, working in composite or component form to serve those who see and understand my net worth.

In summary, “I like what I do and do what I like”, “Life is Good”.