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Chris Lee’s 30-year career in communications spans the technical, production, and management aspects of the business. He has deep experience in broadcast news operations and management, web news applications, and video-oriented product and system development, marketing, and management. Lee is adept at market analysis, strategic planning, business development, product development and external marketing; and is application and systems-oriented.
In March 2006, Lee completed a stint as News Director of KRON-TV in San Francisco. There, he planned and executed the re-engineering of the news production process by training and deploying “VJs” with lightweight HD-ready cameras and PC-based editing software in the field and utilizing the internet for backhaul to the station. Lee also managed the transition to a resolution and format independent production server to replace videotape at headquarters. He maintained editorial responsibility for 8½ hours daily television news in nation’s 6th largest TV market.
Prior to KRON, Lee served as Director of Marketing for Terayon Communication Systems in 2000-2001. Lee formulated corporate strategy for new platform development and led a small project team to define requirements and positioning for a format-independent media storage network, capable of delivering voice, data and video applications to homes via telco or cable.
At his obligatory late 1990s internet start-up job, Lee was Director of Interactive Television & News Personalization for Zatso Inc. (Formerly React TV). He specified an extensive rule-based system for acquiring customer profile data and using it, story metadata and natural language processing to generate personalized, relevant, on-demand video newscasts. Lee also formulated strategy for distributing personalized news service via interactive TV.
From 1994-99, Lee served as US General Manager, Newsroom Systems for Sony Electronics. There, he was responsible for a $12 M product line consisting of integrated broadcast and “browse” video servers, application software, and peripheral equipment. Lee’s definition of digital newsroom workflow made Sony’s NewsBase application software arguably the industry’s best. His responsibility included all outbound marketing for the US market. During this period, Lee also investigated, recommended and specified potential Sony system offerings in (then) emerging applications, e.g. ATM media networks, multi-channel systems, data broadcasting, media asset management, “centralcasting,” webcasting, video-on-demand. With a small project team, he defined the operational workflow and wrote operational specifications for Direct TV, the world’s first 100+ channel television transmission facility.
In what must now be relegated to a brief discussion of “the early years,” Lee managed the Christian Science Monitor TV’s London Bureau, and held numerous local news producing and reporting positions in San Francisco, Providence, and Monterey. He is educated in business (London School of Economics) and Political Science (University of California, Santa Barbara). Lee lives in Northern California.
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