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History
of Windfall Productions
Biography of Ralph J. Mole'
Ralph
J. Mole', President and Executive Producer of Windfall Productions,
is the most diverse, independent producer/director in the freelance
sports marketplace today. A career spanning 35 years began in educational
TV as producer/director with New York Archdiocesan Television in the
early 1970's. Mole’, aspiring towards
commercial broadcast television, sought opportunities with then
independent sports production innovator Marvin Sugarman Productions.
Within
a four year tenure at Marvin Sugarman Productions, Mole'
built the foundation for his sports production career.
Starting as Operations Producer for Marvin's successful CBS
Sports Spectacular segments, Mole’ planned
and executed the production of televised AAU events,
in all the Olympic disciplines. The remote productions
were global. At Sugarman's,
Mole' progressed
through the ranks from operations to stage manager,
associate director and inevitably became producer/director
for the syndicated motor sports series, "The
Racers”. Those experiences during the Sugarman
years influenced Mole' to later create his own Sports
Production services business, Windfall Productions.
After
Marvin Sugarman Productions, Mole' joined Lamar
Hunt's World Championship Tennis TV syndication
unit as producer/director. Within a 2 year period
Mole' produced and directed over 60 hours for World
Championship Tennis.
With Tennis and Auto Racing as an independent sports
base, Mole' launched Windfall Productions in February
of 1980. Within 6 months Windfall Productions landed
an extensive production packaging affiliation with
ESPN.
Mole's early association with ESPN earned him two Ace
awards for production of the WCT Tennis Championships
in 1980 and Davis Cup Tennis Finals in 1981. Windfall Productions'
27-year relationship with ESPN continues to this day. Occasionally breaking away
from executive duties at Windfall Productions, ESPN calls upon Mole'
to
direct action sports coverage of Summer , Winter
and Global X Games . These events showcase Skateboarding,
BMX Bikes, Inline Skating, Motorcycle Freestyle,
Speed Climbing, Snowboarding and Snowmobile Racing.
Olympic production credentials accompany Mole's veteran
experience in TV sports . Mole', is a
member of four Emmy award winning TV production units. He
directed ABC
Olympic Volleyball in 1984. He directed
NBC
Sports
Olympic
Wrestling 1988 from Seoul, Olympic Volleyball for NBC in 1992
at the Barcelona Games and on Winter X Nine he directed Ski, Snowboard & Ultra-X events. During the 1996
Atlanta Olympics Mole' performed the Director duties
covering Athletics for the Host broadcaster
AOB. Mole' created a “ world
feed of track events” seen by nearly
2 billion global television viewers.
Mole' has also directed the host broadcast
feed of Alpine Downhill and Super-G for
ISB at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
Windfall
Productions has maintained Olympic production
credentials by producing several US Olympic
Sports Festivals, Junior Olympics
and Senior Games , as well as Special
Olympics, World University and Masters
Games during the 1980s and 1990s.
Windfall Productions has always focused its production
services business towards “client supplied programming”.
Windfall has achieved this by developing production relationships
with Disson/Furst, SMTI,
FCB Telecom, People & Properties, Medalist Sports,
World Sports Marketing, Ogilvy & Mather, Lifestyle
Marketing Group, and Kaleidoscope Entertainment. During
the past two decades Mole' and Windfall have contracted
directly with sport governing bodies like the US Ski Team,
USA Track & Field,
the Special Olympics, Junior and Senior Olympics, World
Masters Games, and World University
Games.
Future
Goals
Throughout these collaborations, Mole' has
showcased Windfall's
achievements on ESPN, ESPN 2, ABC, NBC, CBS,
TBS, SPEED and OLN. In the process, Mole' has
developed Windfall Productions as a powerful
independent unit with state of the art “in-house” HD and SD digital
non-linear editing facilities.
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