AKA Broadcast

Media technology students were visited yesterday by founder and director of AKA Broadcast, Kris Whitely. Kris formed the company six years ago with the vision of creating a light-weight systems integration service that could bring the most appropriate equipment together to deliver cost-effective and timely projects.

Since then AKA has worked with and for several big-name integrators such as Ericsson, Evertz, TSL, Gearhouse, SAM, Imagine Communications and VizRt to name a few. AKA Broadcast are also developing portable production kits and other out-of-the-box solutions to meet industry needs.

Kris brought along one of the prototypes and showed students how a simple rig can be put together for small sports and music events.

The main purpose of Kris’ visit was to advertise some graduate positions within the company. AKA Broadcast have identified some niches in the market and are willing to invest in the next generation of broadcast engineers to help service those needs.