Sid Mehta Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Role: Supervisor of game day highlights personnel
Responsibilities:
• Assign games to writers and loggers for "The NFL Today," "SEC College Football," and "The Road to the Final Four" studio shows
• Double check scripts (shot-sheets) for accuracy
• Alert studio personnel when scripts are revised or updated

Greater New York City Area

Role: Primary TV commentator & AP of Fox Lane Foxes varsity sports on BCSD-TV: football, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, baseball, softball, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse.
Responsibilities:
• Interview players and coaches in production meetings prior to live-to-tape events
• Produce pre-game content for the scene-setter and opening of the telecast
• Conduct pre-game interviews on-camera with the captains and head coaches
• Perform live play-by-play commentary of games, including: sharing the biographies of the student-athletes and coaches; storytelling; providing historical perspective; making promotional announcements; resetting the broadcast at the start of each period; tossing to and returning from breaks in live action; and allowing the broadcast to breathe by laying out from time to time.
• Provide analysis of the game when working without a broadcast partner and without instant replay technology
(I have to explain a play from instant memory because the video replay is edited in post production over my live analysis. When I do have at least one broadcast partner, I engage him/her in a conversation by asking pertinent questions that encourages my partner to participate.)
• Conduct post-game interviews with players I select
• Conclude the broadcast on-camera with my partner(s) in a wrap-up segment
• Invite special guests to interview for use as halftime or intermission segments
• Produce halftime highlights segment and either record the voice-over tracks narration during the actual halftime, straight from my notes and memory without any video, or after the conclusion of the event during post-production, again without any video.
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The 2011 girls varsity lacrosse team is one of the Top 10 teams in New York State & one of the Top 20 in the United States of America.
• Mahopac Indians @ Fox Lane Foxes (April 15, 2011)
http://bedfordcsdtv.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=2a41532d11bbcee372896230ac8ce1bf

Pleasantville, Ny

Role: On-Air Talent for Pace Setters Sports, an NCAA Division II school.
Assignments:
 Baseball PA Announcer
 Football color commentator/analyst for the Pace Sports Network

Greater New York City Area

Role: Showrunner of TV coverage of Live Event at Madison Square Garden
Responsibilities:
• Create and develop two show rundowns (formats) around schedule of live event traffic flow
• Create list of graphics for live TV shows, including conducting research of content for lower-thirds, tombstones, sidebar strips and full-screens
• Adhere to guidelines, protocols and procedures set by NCAA member, the Big East Conference
• Hire assistant producer
• Predict, anticipate, and plan for contingencies
• Lead production meetings
• Communicate and coordinate with remote production personnel (director/technical director, graphics coordinator, crew chief)
• Communicate and coordinate with Big East Conference employees
• Make editorial content decisions in real time, accounting for adjustments and changes to the live event schedule, on the fly during the live show
• Keep track of length of time of each segment (interview) as an associate director of a live TV show
• Manage on-air talent and floor directors

Greater New York City Area

Role: Videotape associate director/producer (AD) and runner, 2014 NCAA Atlantic-10 Men's College
Basketball Tournament Rounds 1 + 2 at the Barclays Center on NBCSN.
Responsibilities:
• Assist primary videotape associate director/producer (AD) and EVS operators with the production of in-game highlights packages inside the TV remote production truck
• Log live games in real time
• Develop storylines and track game trends
• Pitch ideas for highlights packages to be rolled in during game telecasts
• Identify star players and head coaches departing from team buses inside the arena and alert the crew in order to promote the next matchup on the programming schedule
• Alert crew to formatted, mandatory commercial breaks
• Distribute to each camera operator in between games a page of headshots of the players and coaches so it is easy to find them and put them on-camera at the TV director's discretion
• Talk with the athletic communications staff of the universities to locate people of special interest (administrators, parents, etc.) and communicate to the TV director and producer inside the remote production truck so they can be shown on-camera
• Drive crew back and forth from hotel and arena
• Assist unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) camera operator outside the arena
• Other tasks as assigned by the remote production manager
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Role: Stage manager, 2013 Barclays Center Classic NCAA Men's Basketball double-header on NBCSN.
Responsibilities:
• Conduit between the TV associate director (AD) inside the TV remote production truck and the broadcast booth courtside
• Provide the on-air talent with countdown cues; point out when they're on-camera or looking at video; keep track of promotional copy/announcements for the play-by-play broadcast commentator
• Alert the TV director, producer and AD of the location of star players and teams sitting in the stands for b-roll or to be shown on-camera live

United States

Role: On-air presenter for the Indian television broadcast partner of the National Basketball Association on-site at the 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans.
Responsibilities:
• Be diligent and detail-oriented when communicating via email and by international telephone calls with the management team at Sony Entertainment Television (SET India) in Mumbai, India (9 1/2 hour time zone difference from New York)
• Solicit estimates and select ENG crew to travel on short notice
• Research the history of the city of New Orleans
• Conduct EXCLUSIVE interviews on-camera with NBA All Star players inside the official photo shoot room backstage inside the arena and along press row at the convention center under the supervision of a senior producer at NBA Entertainment
(Players included LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony, Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Joakim Noah, Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, Marco Belinelli, John Wall, Damian Lilliard, Paul George, Terrence Ross, James Harden, and retired player Peja Stojakovic)
• Get players to record on-camera a promotional message for Sony Six
• Talk with fans on-camera at the convention center at the NBA Jam fan experience
• Record a variety of on-camera stand-ups at the convention center and around the arena
• Serve as on-camera tour guide around the city of New Orleans and surrounding neighborhoods
• Record voice-over reporting about the city of New Orleans

Greater New York City Area

Role: Soccer broadcast commentator for NCAA Division 1 school Long Island University-Brooklyn Blackbirds on the North East Conference Front Row digital sports network live stream.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare for and then perform live play-by-play commentary and color analysis of men's and women's soccer broadcasts on the sideline in between the team benches without a broadcast partner
• Promote the school's athletic social media platforms
• Analyze the first half with an alum during halftime segment

Kolkata, India

Role: Lead broadcast commentator for the inaugural game (pilot episode) of the Elite Football League of India, the first American-style tackle football scrimmage played in India.
Responsibilities:
• Secure international travel visa to India and book international travel arrangements to Kolkata, India with approximately 7 days notice
• Meet with football operations personnel and the TV director/producer, Sandy Grossman
• Interview players in English, Gujarati and some Hindi (major languages of India)
• Perform live play-by-play broadcast commentary alongside color analyst and sideline personality
• Record voice-over tracks narration during post-production

Greater New York City Area

Manage teams of Census takers during door-to-door operations & serve as Spanish interpreter in Northern Westchester County, New York.

Greater New York City Area

Role: Broadcast news journalist in the Hudson Valley region of the #1 Designated Market Area (DMA) in the USA, the New York City metropolitan area.
Responsibilities:
• Pitch story ideas to the newsroom assignment editor or cover news events as assigned by the news director
• Conduct interviews in the field with a photographer
• Record on-camera stand-ups
• Produce and write stories using AP ENPS newsroom program
• Record voice-over tracks narration
• Edit short-form pieces and vo-sot stories (tape-to-tape method)
• Videotape associate director (AD) during live news telecast
• Report live on-air during live election night coverage telecast via cell phone
• Record on-camera stand-up scene setter and end of coverage wrap-up to air during live election night coverage
• Operate TelePrompTer during live news telecast
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To view the following clips, please cut-n-paste the hyperlinks:

First on-air broadcast journalist in United States history to deliver two different Indian language stand-ups in two different English local news stories.
• Diverse Voices <http://vimeo.com/10705978>
• World Family Day <http://vimeo.com/10706069>
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Special Correspondent, "In the Trenches," a weekly show about Army Black Knights football.
• Army + Navy Mascots <http://vimeo.com/10705884>
• Army Supporters <http://vimeo.com/10705917>
• The Tradition of Army Football <http://vimeo.com/11529762>
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Sports-themed, human interest news stories
• Solar Car Cross-Country Race Preview <http://vimeo.com/10807751>
• Illuminating Race <http://vimeo.com/10807766>
• MLK, Jr. Pace Race <http://vimeo.com/10807790>
• Snow Tube Racing <http://vimeo.com/10706169>
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News Correspondent
• Welcome Home, Soldier <http://vimeo.com/10706038>
• Thanksgiving Day Poem <http://vimeo.com/10706018>
• On-Camera Montage <http://vimeo.com/10706136>

Greater New York City Area

Role: Graphics coordinator for the Conference USA football pay-per-view digital package.
Responsibilities:
• Write scripts for studio anchor to tape halftime segment to air during live event telecast
• Produce graphics package in-house alongside graphics machine operators
• Communicate with freelance TV producer/directors across the United States of America from studio HQ in New York City
• Ship graphics disk and other supplies to local markets
• After the football game, enter airchecks and game melt reels into archives library
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Role: Sideline producer for Cape Cod Baseball League College All-Stars Game.
Responsibilities:
• Assist sideline reporter
• Find people of special interest (Major League Baseball team scouts, host families, etc.) to interview during the live event broadcast
• Communicate to the TV director inside the remote production truck the location of the reporter on the field via walkie-talkie
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Role: Time out coordinator for live NCAA Men's Basketball telecast.
Responsibility: Conduit between referees on the court and the producer inside the TV remote production truck vis-a-vis formatted commercial breaks during a live event.

Greater New York City Area

Role: Editorial director and the lead TV commentator of Horace Greeley Quakers varsity sports on New Castle Community Television: football, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, basketball, ice hockey, swimming & diving, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse, track & field events.
Responsibilities: See details above from Fox Lane Foxes.

South Fallsburg, NY; Boston, MA; Ontario, CA (USA); Ganeshpuri, India
Music, food services (Annapurna kitchen, Amrit cafe & bakery), video, translation, accommodations, guest services, sanitation.

Bristol, Ct

Role: Studio highlights producer/writer in the PA Training Program.
Responsibilities:
• Log live events and press conferences in real time
• Select highlights plays
• Write scripts (shot-sheets)
• Produce multi vo-sot packages and teases for flagship show SportsCenter, specialty studio shows [NBA 2Night, NHL 2Night, Baseball Tonight, College Hoops Tonight], and ESPNews
• Pitch ideas for graphics
• Select sound bites
• Assist newsgathering at the assignment desk
• Operate TelePrompTer during live studio shows
• Write and pitch story ideas for short-form and long-form pieces

Greater New York City Area

Role: Assist the production of long-form, factual programming.
Responsibilities:
• Conduct internet and archival materials research for the historical documentary “The American President” [PBS]
• Transcribe video footage and audio tracks for use in promotional materials by the producers
• Update photograph archives database
• Conduct research for the long-form news-magazine series “The Justice Files, Season 9” [ABC News/Discovery Channel] by calling original sources for updates on news stories that originally aired on various ABC News long-form programming
• Perform administrative support duties

Greater Boston Area

Write multi vo-sot stories for “Today in New England” & “7News at Noon.”

Ms, Broadcast Journalism

S.I. Newhouse School of Communications -------------------------- Reporter/anchor, WAER-FM radio [NPR affiliate] Live events broadcast.

Ba, Political Science

Intramural basketball tournament champion, 1998 (shooting guard, 3-pt specialist).

Education record

Regents

National Honor Society; Champion table tennis player; Varsity tennis team (doubles player); Texaco Star Challenge trivia team; Debate.

Education record

Student anchor/reporter/on-air host, "20th Century Fox" W V I P - T V Channel 12