Ted Manahan

Ted Manahan is the Director of Sales and Engineering at Video Visions. In early 2009 Ted joined their organization after a move back to the east coast. Ted brought a large volume of experience with him when joining their team. He has been in the professional audiovisual business for better than 20 years. Ted is manufacturer trained on Planar Display Systems, Orion Plasma Display Panels, Christie MicroTiles, Panasonic Professional Display Systems, NEC Display Systems, RGB Spectrum Processing & ICS Technologies Processing to name a few.

In his past experience, he has served as Director of Audio Visual and Convention Services at major Las Vegas Hotels including Mandalay Bay and Green Valley Ranch. He also managed their convention services, trade shows, live corporate events, and general sessions. In these positions, Ted was solely responsible for all audiovisual products within the hotels.

Ted served as Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Wall One Inc., managing the sales, design and systems programming for the company’s west coast operations. A large accomplishment during his time at Mobile Wall One was the sale, installation, and servicing of 4 high x 20 wide Pioneer Videowall into the lobby of the MGM Hotel & Casino.

Ted’s career has taken him to over 350 arenas, stadiums, universities and convention centers throughout the country and the world. His extensive experience in live production includes being a cameraman for every major sports championship in professional and intercollegiate athletics including the NFL Super Bowl (30 times), the NCAA Basketball Final Four (19 times), the NHL Stanley Cup Finals (8 times), the MLB World Series (4 times), the NBA Finals (4 times, the Olympic Games (3 times), the NBA All-Star Game, the NHL All-Star Game, Horse Racing Breeder’s Cup (13 times) and the PGA Golf Championship (6 times). He has covered the NFL as a cameraman for NFL Films for 47 years, network television for over 25 years and music videos for over 25 years. Ted has received three Emmy awards for cinematography and production as well as numerous other individual awards for technical achievement.

Some accomplishments of Ted’s would include the design & implementation of an 8 high x 10 wide Christie MicroTile Videowall display into the Hayden Planetarium at The American Museum Of Natural History, a nationwide videowall roll out for General Growth Properties installing video wall displays in the food courts of their malls, as well as the implementation of all aspects of audio-visual for the Student Center at Clarkson University.

Ted holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Kentucky.