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is a veteran producer of national and international broadcast/cable television news programming, documentaries, and special events, during his career which now spans nearly 50 years. As a program film editor, first with the Dumont Television Network, then Metropolitan Broadcasting, in 1960. After a brief stint with United Press International, he formed his own independent production company, ARC Productions, then served as news and documentary producer for Metromedia Broadcasting (now the Fox Television Network). Later, as news director for BizNet, the broadcast division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC., he debuted numerous business oriented television programs, including the long running First Business program (still airing on more than 130 stations), along with other daily business television newscasts and satellite seminars. Allen is founder and principal partner of Miramar Media, a Washington, DC based video production and small business consulting firm. Nominated for over two dozen EMMY awards, he was voted into the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Mid-Atlantic chapter in 1991. His program credits range from social and cultural documentaries, such as The Making of a Diplomat and VD: The Silent Epidemic to sports, the environment and breakthrough medical innovations. One of the early users of a fiber-optic light source for his cameras, he was co-producer, writer, and editor of The Inner Woman, an Atlanta Film Festival medal winner, which focused on the pioneering surgical procedures in the new field of Laparoscopic Surgery by Drs. John Marlow and Thomas Steptoe. Other television and video credits include more than two dozen business and sports documentaries, long running, internationally syndicated television news programs, videoconferences, and special events.
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