On Thursday 27th September Rachel met up with Arnie Kinbrum at the TIC’s Creative Networks event on ‘Commissioning for Broadcast’. Arnie was speaking alongside radio producer Neil Gardner, and invited Rachel to join him in answering the Q&A, to add her perspective on the climate for start-up Indies.

Rachel was pleased to meet up with Arnie again and return a favour by helping him out, after he’d previously provided advice to the company when they were starting out and making their first contacts.

Arnie has spent over 25 years in the UK television industry with periods at both Yorkshire and Central Television in various financial, strategic and operational roles. He was the General Manager of Pearson Television International where part of his role was convincing organisations to buy his programmes. He has also carried out a number of consultancy assignments including an assessment of Digital Asset Management for the RTL Group.

He has spent the last few years in consultancy roles in the media industry working with a range of organisations especially in the areas of content for new technology. He is currently the Head of Media for the industry leader in digital screen systems on transport in Europe.