Brad Freitas Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Two-time Emmy Award winning broadcaster with more than 15 years in the industry. Car chases, bank robberies, and tracking down missing pet zebras are all in a day's work.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Through police scanners, social media and other tools, I locate and provide on-camera reports for breaking traffic and news events• Sole on-camera reporter in a 100+ mile radius.• Operation of Cineflex camera and live reporting simultaneously.• Coordinated with the station engineers in designing a custom IFB system between thecontrol room and helicopter via FM frequency.• Found and/or contributed to national recognized news stories and footage.

Chopper4Brad providing live coverage of weather, traffic, and breaking news stories.• Pool ship for five stations.• Sole retained crewmember from previous contract, providing a seamless transition marketaerial ENG• Handling all dispatches, assisting pilot with navigation in-flight to story locations.• Police Scanner programming and integration for live tracking of fire/police activity, leadingto countless breaking news events• Programming and operation of Troll microwave transmitting, FLIR UM2/3/HD Cameras,Ikegami and FLIR laptop controllers, currently using a Cineflex V14-HS• twitter.com/Chopper4Brad providing instant photos and reports of breaking news andtraffic conditions• Developed close working relationships with television station’s administrators, assignmenteditors, reporters and directors.• Build trustworthy relationships with local law enforcement and fire departments, PublicInformation Officers, and other reliable sources for story breaking updates.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Filming Lacrosse, Football, Soccer, Field Hockey game videography for college scouts and coaches, using all my own filming and editing equipment and uploading to FTP site.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

I ride in the back of a news helicopter and film traffic, weather and newsworthy events for the Washington DC market, the country, and sometimes the world.

Silver Spring, Md

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Covering the news, whether its ridiculous, sad, hilarious, terrible, boring, or just average.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Flying for Washington, DC news stations NBC, FOX, CBS, and ABC• Live traffic hits for all four network stations and local cable news Channel 8 simultaneously• Nationally recognized Emmy award winning story footage “Tacoma Park Bank Robbery”January 28, 2011.• Sole employee brought on by Helicopters Inc. when U.S. Helicopter’s contract expired.