Karl Prentiss New Director Of Production At Red House Streaming

CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for live event and broadcast productions, has appointed Karl Prentiss as director of production for Red House Streaming, effective immediately. Reporting to Vice President of Red House Streaming Lowell Beckner, Prentiss will manage the Red House Streaming studios’ in-house broadcast and A/V productions from CP’s St. Petersburg, Fla., production complex and network operations center.

Prentiss comes to CP with more than four decades of broadcast engineering, video, and photography experience, including master control and studio management. He began his career in1979 as a master control operator for WBAK Terre Haute, Ind. From there, he made his way to Florida, working in master control at West Palm Beach’s WPTV and WPEC, before moving to the Tampa Bay area in 1994.

At WFTS Tampa, Prentiss worked as the master control supervisor for a decade. It was at this position that he met Beckner, who served as the station’s director of engineering.

Prentiss has spent the past several years honing those creative skills. In 2014, he left WFTS to pursue his own photography business, Prentiss Photography, where he specialized as a portrait, wedding, and commercial photographer. Then, a move back to Indiana in 2017 allowed Prentiss to broaden his creative skills even more.

As the creative projects manager for The Skinny Productions and Fatheadz Eyewear in Indianapolis, Prentiss handled all photography, art direction and production management for a variety of brands and projects. He designed and built all aspects of the in-house video studio for The Skinny with Rico and Ken racing podcast, fully incorporating vMix 4K Production software, which Prentiss directed, switched, edited and delivered.

Back in Tampa Bay, Prentiss will put this experience to work for RHS, as the CP subsidiary continues to build the line-up of productions being taped and streaming from its 5,600-square-foot St. Petersburg facility. Prentiss will lead the local production team in providing custom glass-to-glass IP production and streaming solutions for every type of live event or recorded programming.

In addition to studio operations, Prentiss will also manage field projects, using RHS’ CamSTREAM system for remote/REMI productions and other cutting-edge mobile technology.