James Donnelly:
CLASS OF 1981
Meyers High SchoolClass of 1981
Wilkes-barre, PA
Wilkes-Barre Township High SchoolClass of 1985
Wilkes-barre, PA
King's CollegeClass of 1985
Wilkes-barre, PA
James's Story
Life
James A. Donnelly is prominent figure -visionary in broadcasting and new media podcasting and podsafe music.. Born in Pennsylvania with a musical roots, Donnelly started multi-track r recording at the young age of 7. At a young age he hung out at local radio stations learning the craft of professional DJs. With his interest in music, film and television Donnelly was the youngest Station Manager at his college WKRC, KingÂs College.
Donnelly was the Original Bass player for the the band ÂSynchÂ, later becoming ÂJimmy Harnen and SynchÂ. The song ÂWhere Are You Now? was #10 on the Billboard Charts June 1989.
Donnelly started his career at WNEP-TV, New York Times, working his way up to Producer for PM Magazine. During that time Donnelly produced video for Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Miramax Films, early in their career for their film Playing for Keeps (1987) (produced by Miramax but distributed by Universal Pictures) which aired on MTV.
A then little-known Marisa Tomei has a supporting role.
PetsOnBoard.com started one of the first online pet adoption sites in 1996 with local SPCA.
Video Archive NBC News Feed 1996
Donnelly later produced videos for the band The Badlees A&M Records, and featured a interactive video on their CD (Up There Down Here (Ark 21 Records, 1999)
End of 2004-beginning of 2005 Donnelly starting madlymedia.com, which later turned into Madpod.com, a music, comedy podcast. Traveling to New York City and joining the NYC Podcasting Group, with such member as Meetup.com co-founder Scott Heiferman, and RocketboomÂs creator Andrew Baron.
In 2005 After meeting Adam Curry in Ontario, CA at the first Podcast Portable Media Expo, 2006 Donnelly joined the Podshow Network with his flagship podcast MadPod.com.
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James A. Donnelly Started his career in television working as an intern, eventually moving up to producer for ÂPM Magazine -Interview...Expand for more
Bob & Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Films, MTV, ÂPA Outdoor LifeÂ, and Newswatch-16, (highest rated newscast in America), and numerous TV specials, 16 telethons (Jerry Lewis, and New York Times Video Group - (Boston Globe Video, Golf WORLD). Also working freelance for *NEP Productions doing NFL Games, Budweiser SPORTS-Boxing, Major League Baseball., Moonvideo.com
Later Donnelly was Promotions Director (NBC) affiliate producing promos with JAY LENO. He has produced numerous programs and his show ÂOut Of FocusÂ, an entertainment show.
He found himself in a new career of DVDÂ
as a video compressionist, working at Ritek Digital Studios, (now Digital Deluxe), working on DVDÂs for DreamWorks, Disney, and Universal Studios, and titles such as SHREK,Artificial Intelligence, Spy Games and American Pie.
*1991 ÂKeep the Home Fires Burning song for troops & families of war. Donated $20,000 to charity.
*1996 start Petsonboard.com One of the first Online Pet Adoption for SPCA, NBC feed story. *Winner of 2 Telly Awards, 2 mid-Atlantic EmmyÂs, 11 Addy awards, 1 iris award. *ASCAP-America Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers, member since 1989
*NATAS- Film & Television member since 1991 *Podcasting & Video Blogging, Video Podcast. Dummycast.com, Madpod.com
*Self Proclaimed Gadget Geek *1989 owned first cellphone $3,000 *1992 online the web, Prodigy *1995 Produce Internet Cafe Story *1996 start Petsonboard.com, (first Online Pet Adoption) NBC Story *1997 start Babydream.com *1997 start Moonvideo.com *1999 Produce Video/Animation for web., Guest on TechTV *2004 Produce Madlymedia.com *2005 Produce online Podcast MadPod.com
In 2006, In a logical series of pet sites (petsonboard.com), Donnelly created PawShow.com, a YouTube for Pet sites. PBS.org and Google contacted Donnelly to offer a partner channel for YouTube.
2007- stay tuned for the new TestDriveGirl.com
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King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
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