Chad D'Acquisto

Assistant News Director executing content strategy across broadcast and digital platforms. Servicing the needs of the local news consumer and creating value to the community. Managing the in-house team of anchors, meteorologists, traffic, sports, producers, control room directors, and studio floor crew.

Producer/Director for live, virtual, and hybrid events and multi-camera production. I do it all, from the initial sales pitch to full project management including planning, scheduling, budgeting, hiring production crews, building show rundowns, and set designing with technical coordination of all audio, video, lighting & staging. Once we go live, I call the show. No two live events are ever the same. Customized projects include awards shows, fashion shows, galas, fundraisers, employee recognition events, corporate meetings and global town halls. Local and travel.

Director of WISN 12 News at 6:00 and 10:00pm at one of America's most watched ABC stations. Collaborate with department managers and producers to coordinate all production elements, build newscast rundowns, and communicate with technical and production crews during live newscasts and taped segments. Earned “Employee of the Quarter, July 2013”.

Lead Ignite Director for fast-paced evening newscasts. Responsibilities include simultaneous directing, video switching, audio mixing, robotic camera operation, and multi-channel graphics and video management on a state-of-the-art HD Ignite automation platform. Instrumental in a major transformation to an HD news operation. Took lead responsibilities as resident Lighting Director for a new studio set and initializing new robotic camera operations. Constructed an HD production control room, programmed switcher effects, created Ignite coding, and restructured iNews rundowns. Lead the design, construction, and lighting of various studio sets.

Lead Technical Director for fast-paced, effects-driven evening newscasts, including the #1 rated Live at 10:00. Duties include simultaneous video switching, on-air graphics and digital media playback. Other assignments include audio engineering, studio robotic cameras, transmissions control and training other engineers. Created the files for switcher, audio, and robotic camera positions used by other engineers. Initiated a new set design committee and created studio set design concepts. Researched and presented proposals to management on new technology purchases. Lead the technical implementation of new electronic graphics equipment, edited new music tracks and reorganized the control room music library as part of a major brand image redesign. Special assignments in electronic field production include See It First Weekend at the new Miller Park, a Sunday Night exclusive interview with Brett Favre and Bart Starr at Lambeau Field, and a Legends of Lambeau live documentary. Earned "Employee of the Month, May 2005".

Video switching, instant replay and courtside camera assignments for the JumboTron and local network affiliates' feed of major sporting events. Includes Bucks, Admirals, Wave, and Marquette Men's Basketball games.

Primary engineering assignments include video switching, audio, robotic cameras, and videotape for all newscasts and local productions. Assisted maintenance in large scale projects. Special assignments include electronic field production and non-linear editing with the Creative Services department for various topical and image campaigns, and camera assignments for Pack Attack at Brett Favre’s Steakhouse.

Emphases on television production, non-verbal communication, new media, stage set construction, lighting, and performance. Kenneth Shuler Achievement and Merit Award 1998, honoring student technical achievement.