DigiNovations Expands Video Production Team, Adds Two Broadcast Veterans: NECN's Mont Fennel and Public Television's Ellyne Lonergan

Concord, MA (PRWEB) March 20, 2008 -- DigiNovations, a fast-growing creative firm specializing in video production and internet TV, is continuing to expand its team by adding two experienced television broadcasters to its roster of creative video professionals. Mont Fennel, a four-time-Emmy-winning business reporter for New England Cable News, and Ellyne Lonergan, a public television executive from Tampa, Florida, have signed on to the DigiNovations staff as Senior Producers. Fennel and Lonergan will help fulfill the rapidly-expanding demand for internet video content from DigiNovations' clients in the corporate, education, and not-for-profit sectors.

"We are New England's video and multimedia storytellers, and we are adding two of the best storytellers around to our team," said DigiNovations president Michael Kolowich.

Mont Fennel

Mont Fennel is a 16-year veteran at New England Cable News (NECN), and is arguably New England's most experienced television business reporter. His nightly business reporting on the nation's largest 24-hour regional news channel reached 3.7 million subscribers in more than 1,050 cities and towns across all six New England states. Fennel's reporting won four Emmy awards for NECN, and was nominated 17 additional times. "Mont Fennel is an NECN pioneer," said NECN News Director Thomas R. Melville. "He was on our air on Day One - March 2, 1992 - and he has been there ever since as the only full-time business reporter on television in New England. He is a masterful producer of television news reports. As a master, he has used the medium to bring complex business topics to the small screen in creative and interesting ways. He is a great storyteller."

Fennel joins the staff of one of the fastest-growing creative video production firms in New England. As a leader in the field of web video and internet TV, DigiNovations lately has seen client interest explode in the area of internet video production. "Internet video demands a blend of new skills and attitudes with well-established disciplines," said DigiNovations' Michael Kolowich. "What appealed to me about Mont is his instinctive eye toward finding the core of the story and then using the medium to bring that story alive. I believe he'll flourish in the new medium of internet video, just as he's done in traditional broadcast journalism."

"We will miss him -- in our newsroom and on our air," noted NECN's Melville. " I predict a very bright future for Mont as he brings his vast set of skills to his new position with DigiNovations."

Fennel also served as Boston correspondent for the Nightly Business Report on public television. Fennel is expected to file his final reports on the air at NECN during the week of March 31st, and will join DigiNovations soon after that date.

Ellyne Lonergan

Ellyne Lonergan is a deeply experienced producer and broadcast television executive, who most recently was Senior Vice President, Content, at WEDU-TV in Tampa, Florida. In over 15 years as a producer, she created many documentaries for national distribution, in addition to projects for corporate and institutional clients. She recently completed post production on Growing the Green Economy, a one-hour program for public television stations, and Fishbone Fred, a half hour children's pilot for Florida public television.

From 2004 to 2005, she produced a 13 part financial lifestyle series, Ethical Markets, and Leaving a Legacy, an hour long documentary about the environmental legacy of high profile Americans. During that time she and a crew also spent time in Nicaragua where they filmed World Food Program volunteers working to feed and educate children in isolated villages.

Ellyne has also been a producer and executive at WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and at WJCT in Jacksonville, Florida, and her work has won two Emmy awards and been nominated for four other Emmys. In addition, she has led her own production company, GlassOnion Productions.

"Ellyne brings a tremendous range of skills to DigiNovations that will strengthen and broaden our offerings to clients," said Kolowich. "Her graceful style of writing, producing, and client relationship-building fits right in with our approach. We couldn't be more pleased to add her to the team."

A complete profile of Ellyne Lonergan, including her production credits, may be found at http://www.diginovations.com/profile-ellyne-lonergan

About DigiNovations

DigiNovations (http://www.diginovations.com) is an award-winning creative video production company (http://www.diginovations.com) based in Concord, Massachusetts. It specializes in corporate and institutional documentary films and corporate video production, and on the design and management of internet TV channels (http://www.diginovations.com/internet-tv-channels). The company was founded by documentary filmmaker and internet content pioneer Michael Kolowich (http://www.diginovations.com/profile-michael-kolowich), who is also a former Emmy-winning television news reporter at WGBH-TV in Boston. DigiNovations also publishes the "Web Video Expert" (http://www.diginovations.com/web-video-expert) blog on the world wide web at http://www.web-video-expert.com/blog.

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