NEP Broadcasting Announces Daniel P. Wilhelm as Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development

NEP Broadcasting Announces Daniel P. Wilhelm as Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development

PITTSBURGH, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NEP Broadcasting, LLC, the leading national provider of outsourced media services critical to the delivery of live sports and entertainment events, announced today that Daniel P. Wilhelm has joined the organization as their Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Wilhelm will be responsible for all sales, marketing and business development activities for all divisions of NEP including NEP Supershooters, NEP Denali, NEP Screenworks, NEP Studios and NEP's most recent acquisition, NEP Visions, which is located in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Wilhelm recently served as President of PRIMEDIA, Inc.'s Digital Video Unit overseeing the $1.3 billion publishing company's television, digital and video-on-demand business while launching the first suite of 10 VOD channels along with managing all operations at its teleproduction and distribution center. While at PRIMEDIA, Wilhelm increased revenues through franchise expansion while streamlining operations and then integrating the enterprise back into the company's Education and Training division, resulting in millions of dollars of savings.

Prior to PRIMEDIA, Wilhelm was the Executive Vice President of Lighthouse Global Network for Lighthouse Holdings, Inc. where he helped to build a portfolio of 17 diversified companies in marketing services, business communications and design while identifying and completing 5 acquisitions, managing early stage integration and creating Communicator Worldwide merging 5 separate portfolio companies into one operating unit with over $50 million in revenue.

Wilhelm was also the Senior Vice President at FOX Liberty Networks where he played an instrumental role in the creation of FOX Sports Net, expanding the network's distribution to 70 million households. Mr. Wilhelm created and managed agreements, joint ventures and strategic alliances with dozens of media and marketing companies, teams and organizations. He was named the first General Manager of Prime Network in 1990, then a new partnership formed by TCI, Group W and Bill Daniels. In 1993, Liberty Media entered into a partnership with Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. and NBC to form Prime Sports Channel Networks and Wilhelm was promoted to Vice President of Programming and Network Operations. From 1994-1996, he served as Vice President of Programming and Network Development for Liberty Media's Sports Group. Subsequent to the FOX/Liberty organizations, Wilhelm was the Director of Production Sales at TPC/Channel One. He also served as Director of Advertising Sales at TCS, a program syndicator and television remote production company.

"NEP has taken on an entirely new dimension during our growth over the last few years and by having Dan Wilhelm come onboard to lead our sales, marketing and business development efforts, it will help us to strengthen and enhance our current client relationships while developing the sales and marketing strategies needed to expand our client base and business for the future. With his extensive experience and knowledge of the broadcasting industry, Dan will immediately add value as he spearheads all of our sales and marketing activity for all of our divisions," stated Lou Borrelli, CEO of NEP Broadcasting.

Jacqueline Reses of Apax Partners affirmed, "NEP is an evolving, growing company. The addition of Dan to our sales team will assist NEP in building upon its successful client relationships." Kevin Maroni of Spectrum Equity Partners added, "NEP is a company that is headed for an exciting future and we felt the addition of this position was critical. Mr. Wilhelm has the right balance of experience and business savvy to move NEP forward in sales, marketing and business development to help us to achieve our sales goals as we grow the business."

About NEP

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, NEP Broadcasting provides a wide range of broadcast services to the sports and entertainment industries. NEP Supershooters provides remote broadcast facilities, management personnel, and engineering expertise for many of the high-profile television events presented by the sports and entertainment industry in both digital and high-definition formats. NEP also possesses the industry's deepest engineering staff in terms of expertise, creativity and technical savvy. NEP Screenworks, located in Corona, CA (near Los Angeles), is the leading provider of mobile video systems and indoor and outdoor LED screens and video production services. NEP Studios provides television production studio facilities in New York City. NEP Visions located in the UK provides remote broadcast facilities, management personnel and engineering expertise in both digital and high-definition formats for many high profile television events. NEP is majority owned by Apax Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Additional information on NEP is available at www.nepinc.com .

Michele James of James & Company of New York assisted with the executive search process.

Source: NEP Broadcasting, LLC

CONTACT: Terence M. Brady of NEP Broadcasting, LLC, +1-800-444-0054, or
terenceb@nepinc.com

Web site: http://www.nepinc.com/

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