Broadcast Industry Leader Sam Tagliavore Joins ZeeVee

LITTLETON, Mass., Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today ZeeVee, Inc., announced that Sam Tagliavore, a 32-year veteran of the cable TV and broadcast industry, has joined the company as Director of Sales.

"It's an exciting time to be a part of the cable TV industry, and we're very pleased to have Sam leading our efforts to bring innovation and opportunity to the field," said ZeeVee's co-founder and CEO, Vic Odryna. "I'm looking forward to working together with Sam to introduce the market to ZeeVee's industry-changing price points for HD MPEG2 encoding and QAM modulation.   The industry is changing at lightning speeds, and with Sam's help ZeeVee will be there with new solutions to the challenges this industry faces."

Tagliavore is charged with helping ZeeVee expand its penetration into the broadcast markets, especially cable and satellite operators, private cable operators and telcos.  In addition to direct responsibility for product sales, Tagliavore's extensive knowledge and long experience in this industry will help ZeeVee forge new collaborative relationships with potential partners as well as customers, and also help ZeeVee define future products that address an ever-changing broadcast environment.

Sam Tagliavore Biography

2011 marks Sam Tagliavore's 32nd year in the cable TV industry. He began his career with Select TV of California, providing programming to private cable operators. Tagliavore is a long time member of the Society of Cable Television Engineers, and worked in CATV distribution at Western CATV, Satellite Engineering Group, SEG. Previously, he served as National Sales Manager and Vice President of Distributor Sales for Pico Macom.  Tagliavore also served eight years with Standard Communications Broadband and Broadcast divisions as Southeast Regional Sales Manager.

Tagliavore was most recently the Director of Sales for Pacific Broadband Networks covering North, South, Central America, and the Caribbean selling Fiber to the home and HFC solutions delivering Voice, Video and Data. To contact Sam Tagliavore, call 1-407-324-2800 or email [email protected].  

About ZeeVee

ZeeVee, Inc., uses broadcast and cable technologies to develop products for distributing HD Video sources at game-changing cost points. The ZvPro® and ZvBox® product lines of HD encoding and modulation gear serve the private cable operator, residential, and digital signage markets.  For more information, visit www.zeevee.com

SOURCE ZeeVee, Inc.