Bob joined Tribune’s flagship television station, WPIX, as a master control Technical Director and Video Engineer on June 1,1999 and retired June 1, 2010. This was Bob’s first staff position following a 22-year career as a freelance camera, robotics, video, audio, and videotape technician. His news, sports, and entertainment clients include CBS, NBC, FOX5, TBS, ABC, UPN9, WPIX, WNET, MSG, CNN, CNNfn, HBO, Showtime, MTV, VH1, CTW, NEP, Unitel, MTI, ESPN, and the National Geographic Society. Bob was the videotape operator for 40 episode of “Ghost Writer� for CTW and was a day player in videotape on “Sesame Street� from 1978 to 1999.
In 2002 the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored Bob for his video and robotic camera work on the Emmy Award winning “The WB11 News At 10�, now "The CW11 News At 10".
Bob has been a video assist technician for hundreds of television commercials and coordinated video effects for feature films including the Rozie Perez and Patti Lupone independent film, “24 Hour Woman� and “For Love Of The Game� with Kevin Costner for Universal Pictures.
Prior to his retirement from WPIX, in June 2010, Bob began graduate studies in employee labor relations and in June 2011, completed his MA in Labor Studies at the CUNY Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. In February 2012 Bob joined the NewsGuild of N.Y., first as a mobilization coordinator, then as a local representative and served until his retirement on March 31, 2018.
