ADP also licenses content from the library that formed the basis for the launch of CMT. Dean Daniels is a ground-breaking video and film producer, director, editor, and script to screenplay writer in both the corporate video and television entertainment arenas. He has produced and directed hundreds of corporate videos in three decades of live meeting/staged events for some of the top corporations
in America. In the television entertainment field, Dean has written, produced, and directed music videos and concerts with entertainers including George Strait, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Lee Greenwood, and dozens more. He produced and directed the nationally syndicated Christian Music program “Sing Out America” for over thirteen years, soon to be represented on his YouTube Sing Out America channel. From 2001-2003 Dean produced and directed the hit Texas/Americana concert series, “The Great American RoadHouse” for GAC “Great American Country” and RFD-TV cable networks. In 2006, his alma mater, Western Kentucky University, (where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Communications,) named him one of the university’s “100 Gifts WKU Gave the World” during its 100th centennial celebration. Dean has produced and directed hundreds of corporate videos and a multitude of live stage events nationwide for clients including Zurich North America, 3M Corp, Washington Mutual and Heinkel Surface Technologies. His communication and sales abilities led to his appointment as the Director of Audio-Visual Services in 1994 at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, FL, one of Florida’s largest conference destination properties and home of the “JC Penny Golf Classic.” Caribiner/AVHQ acquired the Innisbrook Resort’s audio/visual department two years after Dean’s appointment as Director and he continued in this role and as a show producer and video specialist for nearly six years. In 2001, Dean accepted an offer to relocate to Dallas, TX to develop entertainment television properties (“The Great American RoadHouse”) and continue his career in corporate video and staging. Following his producing of a DVD for motivational speaker David E. Stanley, Dean teamed up with Stanley to co-write the screenplay for the feature film, “Protecting the King” a biopic of David’s life as stepbrother and bodyguard to Elvis Presley. The film was released in 2005 and is currently available on DVD via online bookstores and other retailers. From 2005-2020, Dean was with Freeman Event Technologies on their national audio-visual team as Video Specialist/V1/EIC/Video Director/TD, engineering and directing corporate shows nationally and worldwide. He has been the Senior V1 for multiple repeat clients including Girl Scouts of the USA, PCMA (8 years), The NAMM Show {14 years), Toastmasters International (15 years worldwide), The American Association of Perioperative Nurses: AORN (14 years). The American Payroll Association, Siggraph, Miller Beer and hundreds more. His core specialty remains engineering and directing multi-camera events, music and concerts, interviews, and awards programs as well as engineering high-end video systems. Dean’s directing of the NAMM Show TEC Awards has been acclaimed by millions of online hits, including 6 million views of his production of Skunk Baxter and friends’ performance at the TEC Awards of “Ricky Don’t Lose that Number.” In 2020, Dean became an Independent Contractor as President of Alpha Dog Productions and continues to engineer and direct national corporate events for Freeman legacy clients and others as well as technical producing dozens of virtual events for national clients during the height of the 2020-2021 Covid Pandemic. In 1983 Dean was the co-founder and original Production Director of the cable network programming service CMT: "Country Music Television”, personally signing on the network on March 5, 1983 (http://www.cmtcountry.com). In 2005, CMT interviewed Dean for two network specials "40 Greatest Firsts” and “40 Days That Changed Country Music.” Dean told the story of the historic launch day for the network and provided historical information and insights on the network's first video programming. Dean is President of Alpha Dog Productions, Inc., providing media licensing from the “Daniels Video Library” of classic video productions as well as live event and virtual event production services.
