Martin joined TCU’s Film-Television-Digital Media Department as a full-time faculty member in the fall of 2008, after serving two years as an adjunct professor. Martin is responsible for teaching the department’s sports broadcasting classes, which generates content that airs on The Mtn. – Mountain West Sports Network. This includes numerous TCU volleyball, baseball, and basketball games.

Prior to TCU, Martin worked as an Athletic Video Production Specialist at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a co-founder of the Collegiate Sports Video Association, a national organization promoting the role of video coordinators at universities. In addition, he served three terms on the CSVA Executive Board.

Silverman has guided the Big Ten Network to profitability within two years of being on the air. Additionally, the network has achieved its distribution goals, and is available to approximately 75 million homes throughout the country. With the increased exposure for the Big Ten, as well as the network’s financial contributions to the conference, the network has changed the collegiate sports television landscape.

Under Silverman’s leadership, the Big Ten Network has added top national advertisers, including Nissan, Infiniti, State Farm, Hampton, Buffalo Wild Wings, Ro*Tel, Auto-Owners Insurance and the U.S. Marine Corps, and top national talent, such as Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis, Gus Johnson, Jim Jackson and Dave Revsine.

The Big Ten Network’s portfolio extends beyond the traditional linear network with extensive new media offerings in the areas of broadband and video-on-demand (VOD). The Big Ten Network has expanded its domestic and international streaming initiative in 2009-10, making an additional 200 events available through its fee-based streaming service on www.BigTenNetwork.com. These events, such as volleyball, wrestling, baseball, softball, women’s basketball and non-conference men’s basketball, would not otherwise receive television coverage. The enhanced quality of this streaming product promises to rival any other streaming source in delivery and quality. In addition, the network is one of the most prolific providers of VOD content to Comcast and Time Warner

Shortly after its August 2007 launch, the network made a name for itself by achieving two major milestones, airing 95 percent of its 400 live events in high definition, the most HD content of any other new channel in history, and becoming the first network in history to reach 30 million households within 30 days from its launch.

Prior to joining Big Ten Network, Silverman served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the ABC Cable Networks Group. In this role, Silverman was a board member and represented the Company’s interests in Lifetime, A&E, and History Channel.  Silverman also previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, ABC Family Channel, where he was responsible for channel operations and the development of its business strategy, with emphasis on ad sales, business affairs, business development and finance.

Silverman began his media career in the entertainment industry at The Walt Disney Company, where he held a number of executive positions during his eight-year tenure, principally in the television and movie studio divisions.

Before rejoining Disney, Silverman served as Vice President of Planning and Development, ABC Inc.  In this position he led the planning functions for the ABC Television Network, ABC-owned television stations, ABC Cable Group, ABC Radio, ESPN and Buena Vista Television and was responsible for improving the financial performance of the group, evaluating new cable channels, analyzing potential strategic acquisitions, and integrating operations.

Prior to his tenure at ABC, Silverman developed and launched ESPN Zone, where he served as General Manager and led all key analysis and negotiations, including real estate and sponsorship deals. Additional career accomplishments include serving as Vice President of Finance and Planning at The Walt Disney Studios, a group that included theatrical, home video, network television, cable television and online. Responsibilities consisted of managing business development, finance, planning and special projects within the studio, including the studio’s strategic five-year plan and annual operating plans.

Silverman played a key role in the acquisition of Miramax Films, helped expand the development of several international Disney Channels, and led all new business initiatives within the studio. Prior to joining the studio planning group, Silverman worked within the theatrical marketing department to evaluate new opportunities to market and distribute films cost effectively.

Prior to his experiences at Disney, Silverman worked in business development for NBC and at Arthur Young & Co, where he was a Certified Public Accountant.

Silverman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan.  Silverman currently resides in Chicago with his wife and two children.

Since its implementation by the conference in 2005, Jon has also served as the SEC Instant Replay Technician for all Florida football home games, as well as the Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville in each of those seasons. As part of his work for the SEC, Jon also served as the Replay Technician at the 2006 Fiesta Bowl and 2007 Orange Bowl games.

Jon was born in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1989, and has been a resident of Gainesville since the fall of 2000.

Pillow oversees a student staff responsible for producing content on the university’s stadium and arena video screens while also recording each game for playback on the university’s cable channel.  His duties also include supervising a student production team to produce weekly TV programs for the football and men’s basketball head coaches.

Pillow previously served on Radio-TV faculties at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Prior to teaching, Pillow was a director and videographer for television stations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and worked numerous freelance sports events throughout the southern United States.

Pillow has a B.S. In Radio-TV and M.S.M.C. In Mass Communications from Arkansas State University.

For the past five years, Bentley has served as the executive producer of the Kent State Sports Network, overseeing all productions at the growing network.

While Raps makes a living keeping up with technology, more importantly, he enjoys it.

Kilwien is responsible for managing the department’s communications unit and implementing a media and public relations strategy for Husky athletics. He also oversees the development of the UW’s official athletic website, serves as the liaison to the department’s multi-media partners (ISP Sports, CBSSports.com & FSN Northwest), and serves as the department’s primary spokesperson.

Prior to Washington, Kilwien spent six years at Santa Clara University and spearheaded the formation of the external services area, tying media relations and marketing functions into one unit and reorganizing all corporate sales efforts. He also expanded the department’s official athletic Website, radio network, and publishing agreements and expanded the department’s merchandise sales program.

Kilwien came to Santa Clara following a stint in marketing and communications at the FANSonly Network (now CBSSports.com College Network), the largest college sports network of official athletic Websites on the Internet.

Prior to FANSonly, Kilwien served as the assistant director of athletics for media relations at his alma mater, Texas Tech. While a member of the Red Raider athletic staff, he conducted a successful campaign to promote Byron Hanspard for the Dr Pepper Doak Walker Award and sixth-place finish in the voting for the prestigious Heisman Trophy. Kilwien also was responsible for serving as a liaison with the department’s marketing group and was the primary spokesperson during a comprehensive NCAA investigation. He also was instrumental in launching the department’s first Internet Website in August, 1996, and designing the media operations areas in the $62 million United Spirit Arena.

Following his graduation from Texas Tech in 1988, Kilwien began his career in college athletics as an intern and media relations assistant at the University of Houston.  From 1990-92, Kilwien served as an assistant director of sports information at Duke University before spending two years as an assistant director of media relations at the (now-defunct) Southwest Conference.  Following the dissolution of the SWC, Kilwien spent two years as director of media relations and promotions at Raycom Sports in Charlotte, N.C.

Kilwien married the former Karen Yee, a standout college basketball player at Houston, in December of 1990. The couple has a son, Preston.

That formula landed him the gig of heading sales and marketing at TransWorld Media, makers of Snowboarding, Skateboading, Surf, Motocross, and BMX. What was largely an endemic business soon became booming with every major youth marketing brand buying into the core side of action sports through print, online, events, and home video.

Jaquet joined CSTV (now CBS College) as director of business development in 2004 and has built up the Properties division to include original events and programming as well as the management of its Conference partnerships. That success earned him the added role of filling the 35-million home cable network with sponsored programming and branded content. This May, his signature event at CBS, the Alt Games – a multi-sport festival of Collegiate Championships with more than 150 schools and 1,000 students competing for national championships in snowboarding, freeskiing, wakeboarding, surfing, beach volleyball, ultimate disc, and more – will complete its fifth year with more than 18 hours of original programming kicked off with an hour on CBS.

Jaquet now heads up the sales division at CBS College Sports and has probably never closed a traditional media deal in his life.

Osborne also oversees the department’s broadband video network, “KnightVision,” which launched in August of 2009. The video network streams live home games of Rutgers’ 22 intercollegiate sports, press conferences and events such as football Pro Day.

Osborne is responsible for training the student production crews and interns, producing/directing, equipment purchasing, and administering the in-house video servers that stream KnightVision on-demand and live programming.

Osborne has an extensive background in corporate and broadcast television production. After graduating from Rutgers in 1989 with a degree in Journalism/Mass Media, he became a freelance camera operator/production technician, working on projects for Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Merck, and Novartis (formerly Sandoz Pharmaceuticals). He also worked on numerous sporting events for ESPN regional, Main Events Boxing, and local production houses.

In 1992, Osborne joined New Jersey Network Public Television as a Production Technician/Assistant Editor. His duties included camera operation, technical directing, control room graphics, audio, and offline editing on BetaCam SP and D2 formats. He designed electronic graphics on Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award-winning programs NJN News, State of the Arts, and various documentaries distributed on PBS.

When Knight-Ridder and WPHL-17 Philadelphia launched Inquirer News Tonight in 1994, Osborne was recruited to be the lead Chyron Infinit! operator. Aside from normal control room duties, he was responsible for interfacing the Chyron and Dynatech New-Star newsroom software for election night coverage.

Osborne left WPHL in March, 1995 to join New Jersey Network on a full-time basis.

In 1997, he ventured into multimedia production and joined AT&T Labs in Holmdel, N.J. as a multimedia producer.  He worked on a range of projects that included the AT&T True Rewards website redesign and the AT&T WorldNet dialup consumer software interface.

Osborne resides in Middletown N.J. with his wife Bonnie and their two children.

Following his news experience, Sykes worked for six years as a senior executive for a public relations agency in the Detroit market. As a PR executive, he was involved in several community relations projects with Detroit sports teams.

In addition to teaching broadcast news and sports related courses, Sykes oversees a student-produced nightly newscast that airs live five nights a week.