Televideo makes James Poole COO

OB company Televideo has appointed James Poole as its chief operating officer. 

Poole arrives after working at the Commonwealth Games with Sunset+Vine, where he was the venue technical manager for cricket. Before that he spent three years at Timeline Television, where he worked first an OB unit manager and then senior commercial manager, responsible for sales and new business development.

While at Timeline, he won contracts for The BBC Proms, National Theatre Live, Glyndebourne Opera, The Rugby League World Cup host broadcast, BBC Women’s Six Nations and Summer & Winter on the Farm as well as a range of other projects. Poole has also worked for EVO Broadcast as an OB engineering manager.

Televideo’s managing director Paul Scivill said: “We are thrilled to welcome James to the ever-growing Televideo team. His experience and enthusiasm will strengthen our existing offering across the board to all our clients. As we continue to expand our fleet, personnel and our client experience, James is an integral part of this process. We look forward to the opportunities we can create now he is part of the Televideo team.”

Poole added: “I am delighted to be joining Televideo’s extremely talented team, especially during such an exciting period of change for the broadcast industry. As an independent UK-based company with a global outlook, Televideo is well placed to capitalise on a range of new growth opportunities and I am really looking forward to our journey over the next 6-18 months.

“My main goal is very simple: I want to ensure our focus stays on providing exceptional technical delivery and excellent customer service across everything we do. I am particularly looking forward to broadening the selection of OB work we undertake and to working with our customers that continually challenge us to innovate.”

Televideo works with Sky Sports, the BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Eurosport, Channel 5 and Viaplay, as well as a host broadcaster for major events.