Chris Farrow, Founder and President of Chris Farrow Productions, brings more than three decades of experience in the field of collegiate and high school sports broadcasting providing a variety of services.
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Chris Farrow Productions (Indianapolis, IN) – Launched Chris Farrow Productions on January 1, 2018. Chris Farrow Productions is a division of DFA Creative, a woman owned business.
Ross Production Services (Wallingford, CT/Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Full-time Coordinating Producer; Chris is based in Indianapolis as part of the Ross PS team.
ESPN (Charlotte) – Coordinating Producer of College & High School basketball for ESPN. Managed more than 500 basketball games annually. Hired/Evaluated producers, directors, talent and key production truck personnel. (AP, AD). Managed the college basketball sport properties for ESPNU, Big East Network, SEC Network, Big 12 Network & all High School basketball on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU. Eventually took on more ESPN/ESPN2 events (Nike Hoop Summit, McDonald’s, Jordan Brand Classic, NBA Draft Combine). Added College Track and Field in last four year at ESPN including SEC & NCAA Championships.
In later years, merged schedules with ESPN/ESPN2 games to become part of team managing more than 1,200 linear college and high school basketball games. Primary production liaison for ESPNU and SECN with Bristol led operations team.
Farrow Productions, LLC (Indianapolis, IN) – Owned business for one year. Main roles included “Packager” for NCAA Productions & The Big East Conference women’s basketball & soccer packages. Produced & edited video board content for more than 55 NCAA championship sites. Freelance AP for ESPN college football and basketball, Produced Big East Women’s Basketball games.
NCAA (Overland Park, KS & Indianapolis, IN) – Managed NCAA Productions remote events. NCAA Productions acted as a packager for numerous ESPN and syndicated NCAA Championship telecasts. Worked on team managing CBS Sports, ESPN & Westwood One broadcast agreements. Compiled and organized NCAA championship TV ratings for staff and championship sport committees. Produced NCAA championship video board content. Specialty projects included College World Series / Women’s Final Four home videos and “Getting to the Next Level” video series for Elite student-athletes. Worked on site at nearly every NCAA championship during tenure (Final Fours, Frozen Fours, College Cups, CWS, WCWS, Tennis, Volleyball, Gymnastics, Cross Country, Division I-AA Football, Division II events, etc).
Creative Sports (Charlotte, NC now ESPN Charlotte) – Operations/Crewing: crewed more than 1,000 remote and studio shows during a 16-month span including the former ESPN2 RPM racing studio show in first two seasons 1996 & 1997 and hundreds of college football and basketball games as well as minor league Baseball Across America package.
Big East Conference (Providence, RI) – Production Assistant for the original Big East Network. Worked for the conference for five basketball and four football seasons. Started part-time 1990-91 season. Became full-time summer 1991 when the conference added football. Freelance for Big East TV Network working as AP/graphics for about 120 games. Produced college basketball in final season 1994-95.
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) – Five years as Athletic Communications (Sports Information) student assistant (1985-90). Freelance: official & talent stats, TOC for ESPN & CBS. Football press box home stats crew. UConn Men’s Ice Hockey PA announcer for three seasons. Attended CoSIDA annual convention.
Hometown: Ellington, CT – Ellington High School; College: University of Connecticut