User:Rick Tugman

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Rick Tugman

Rick Tugman (b. 29 November 1955) in New York is a Television Director and Technical Director. Raised in Woodmere on Long Island he attended high school at George W. Hewlett High before moving to Florida in 1973.

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Tugman is a independent contractor initiating and coordinating live production and technical operations on many television programs (mostly sports and entertainment shows) for various clients and television networks like ABC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN, Comcast Sports Net, Discovery Channel, Showtime among others.

He began his career as a film courier for a local television station in Miami. Interested in threatrical stage lighting, Tugman took the initiative to come into the station fifteen hours a day, seven days a week learning all he could. Shortly afterwards he was hired full time and became the lead Associate Director for the stations 5, 6 and 11 o'clock news programs before the age of 20.

In 1980 Tugman began working as a independent contractor where he developed television programs for syndication, corporate programming and commercials. In 1982 he accepted a position at the now defunct Satellite News Channel, which was owed by ABC/Group W in Stamford, Connecticut. After being laid off, Tugman returned South Florida where he again began working for production companies through 1988.

In 1989 with the expansion of cable television and sports programming, Tugman started working in sports programming providing production services to many different networks. Mr. Tugman's work has taken him around the world including Egypt for LIVE broadcasts back to the United States from newly discovered tombs in the Bahariya Oasis where the Golden Mummies were discovered. Tugman was also traveled to London for boxing and Monaco for Monte Carlo Millions a live television Poker event which was broadcast around the world.