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Open LetterMy Farewell to KGTV By Margie Baldwin After 25 years of service to KGTV, I have decided to accept another position with ANN Systems (Advanced News Network Systems, formerly Nexus Infomatic of Germany) as Vice President of Operations. ANN Systems is an international company with several holdings in Norway, Germany and US. Recently, they decided to bring their Western headquarters here to San Diego. They are currently operating out of temporary facilities and would like for me to build their class A accommodations in Rancho Bernardo, after which I will take charge of all technical support services for all of the Americas (North, South & Central) and Australia. Their primary product is Open Media and Star Drive. Tremendous development effort is being made on the Internet portion of the system. Open Media is the number one automated newsroom system in Europe, Asia and Africa. They want to expand their product and services to the Western continents. I am very excited about my new job and its future possibilities. I will be trained in Munich, Germany and will be building my tech support team right here in San Diego. I am looking forward to going to NAB, RTNDA, Video Expo in Brazil and to many TV and Radio stations to check on customer support satisfaction. The company is expected to grow by 400% by the end of next year. This growth expectation is refreshing after so much down sizing over the last few years. It is a bit hard leaving KGTV, but I have to give this level of a position a try in the private business sector as my next professional challenge. For those of you who want to stay in touch, please email me at mbaldwin1@home.com until my new account at ANN Systems is set up in January. This email address of mbaldwin@kgtv.com will be good through the end of this year. How about that, I guess that the Y2K bug finally got to me: a new job to start the New Year and the New Millennium. |
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