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Nancy Glass: The Business of TV Productions

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Nancy Glass of Nancy Glass Productions, has taken quite a lead in cable TV programming  in Philadelphia. Her company’s profile speaks for itself: Nancy Glass has produced: Dangerous Grounds, Tanked, R.V. 2015, We Move Animals, Footsteps in the Snow, to name but a few. Having brought in Argle Bargle Films and Rearrange Media earlier this year, Nancy Glass Productions has been able to “diversify content and leverage facilities.” With this arrangement, Nancy Glass Productions takes a 50% profit, and Argle Bargle Films/Rearrange Media, the other 50%.

Running a TV business in Philadelphia – over New York or LA – Glass has found comes with pluses and minuses. In terms of benefits, overheads are definitely cheaper but then being away from central TV locations means that travel is involved as Glass seeks to sell her “sizzle reels.”

Still, overall, given the way the world is moving increasingly into web-based operations, being a little further out shouldn’t be too much of an inhibition for companies such as Nancy Glass Productions.  As Glass herself pointed out: “We go to everybody. We talk to online platforms; we talk with cable; we talk with broadcast networks…You take a risk on things you like. That’s what you do. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.”

So far, though, things seem to be working out pretty well for Nancy Glass Productions.

New Department at Nancy Glass Productions

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A new department has opened at Nancy Glass Productions. The Advertising and Commercial Division was launched a couple of weeks ago “in response to an expanding commercial client mix.” It will offer a wide array of services, spanning both digital content and traditional advertisements. This includes: digital short-form videos, social media content, long-form episodic formats, etc.

Ben Fetterman – who until now has been Director of Business Development at Nancy Glass Productions – will head the new department. He explained that the team will be trying to “…identify the best solutions to take a concept from script to screen, no matter how large or small the display.”

Philadelphia-based Nancy Glass Productions was established by Nancy Glass in 2000, specializing in unscripted TV and media content. Since that time it has created 2,000+ hours of prime time reality programming. Collaborating with their partners, one of the goals of the company is to “bring their creative ideas to life.” The firm uses standard and HD and has full post production facilities and a special effects studio. Some of the clients that the firm has worked with over the last decade-and-a-half include: HGTV, DIY, A&E, Veria, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Food Network.