Having completed his Bachelor's degree in Radio, Television and Film, at the University of North Texas in 2007, Jim Slaughter has already been practicing his craft in the production industry. He has shot a variety of things from sporting events to news stories, to concerts, dance recitals and theatrical shows, as well as training and informational works.

Much of Jim's professional production career has been with City Media Group Inc., of McKinney, Texas, where he has served since 2003 as a camera operator on multi-camera live events and as an audio specialist. On occasion, Jim has been known to direct and manage a crew from City Media during the company's seasonal peak periods. Though Jim's educational duties divided his time from City Media, the company found him useful, during the summers and in between semesters, editing videos and mastering audio projects.

While at UNT, Jim volunteered at the campus television station, North Texas Television (NTTV), before being asked to serve on the station's staff as Sports Director.During his tenure, he led the sports department to new grounds with the creation of North Texas Sports Zone, a sports highlight program. Sports Zone was built literally from the ground up. Jim designed and built the desk and set that show was to use, and he assisted the station's operations manager and the head engineer in the design and construction of Studio C, the room where once a week, Sports Zone was broadcast live, over the cable system in Denton, Texas.

In addition to his work on Sports Zone, Jim oversaw the remote productions of NTTV Sports. Drawing upon his experiences as a volunteer, Slaughter directed over 20 live UNT basketball games. He is credited with creating a consistent on-air graphics scheme as well as devising a way to overlay the game clock within the broadcast; a feature that had been eluding the station's members due to limited technological reasources and knowledge. The crew of NTTV Sports soon became praised by members of the University and the community. The production value was so good that another TV station, representing Western Kentucky University, hired a satellite truck to beam NTTV's broadcast of a game between North Texas and WKU back to Bowling Green, Kentucky. It marked the first time in the station's twenty-year history, that live NTTV content had been outside of the Denton area. Shortly after that, NTTV Sports was approached by The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference to produce, for air and for internet webcast, their 2007 Conference Basketball Tournament.

As the success of the basketball season wound down, Jim once again organized the volunteers from NTTV to produce a football game.  The Annual Green and White Game, held every spring, would be the first look at an offense installed by new head coach, Todd Dodge.  Prior to this time, NTTV had not attempted to tape a football game since the late eighties-early nineties.

Jim has been recognized for his work with North Texas Television.In 2007, along with the hosts of North Texas Sports Zone, was recognized by the Region-8 Society of Professional Journalists for a segment the three produced on the high school football teams in Denton.The segment was awarded a first place Mark of Excellence award and was elevated to the national competition to be held in November of 2007.  Jim was selected by the staff and volunteers at NTTV as the Best Live Director for his work calling the shots at UNT basketball games.  He was also recognized by the Department of Radio, Television and Film and UNT as an Outstanding NTTV Staff Member in 2007 and he was named Outstanding NTTV Volunteer of the Year in 2006.

 

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