Premier Studios
http://www.premierstudios.com
Lenexa, KS
About
1988
Gerald Smith (founder) recognizes the inevitable arrival of the digital technology "wave" through experiences with early digital audio workstations and MIDI technology. Working as an independent contractor, under the name Executive Audio Productions, Mr. Smith provides quality music recording and original music composition to a handful of satisfied clientele, most of which remain as customers even today.
1990
An additional specialty is identified for providing soundtrack creation and special effects for live event, theatrical, and video productions. The "premier" standard of client-relationship begins by always delivering beyond expectations.
1992
The digital technology "wave" comes ashore as non-linear editing systems become technically viable and are added to the company offerings. These systems made possible a more efficient production process, and visually stimulating video content becomes readily available to clients. Client requests drive the addition of video scripting, video acquisition and postproduction services. The company name is changed to Premier Communications Inc. to better reflect a more comprehensive menu of services.
1994
Clients express the need for complementing AV Systems Integration services. Additional employees are added to service these requests and other new technologies such as business-class digital satellite distribution. Later that same year, Premier Studios became the region's first DishTV Network business class integrator.
1996
Premier Communications moves into a 9,700 square foot facility in Lenexa, Kansas. Satellite uplink truck services are added to better serve business television clientele. Initial work included supporting the 1996 presidential election news coverage by acting as a pool feed service for network news organizations. The technical staff and the equipment continued a consistent schedule of providing satellite network services.
1998
Digital distribution media such as DVD, web streaming and web page begins early development. Premier Communications adds cinematic quality DVD authoring systems and is among the early adopters of web authoring at a national level.
Digital video acquisition is added to the productions services group. This technology provided for a higher quality picture and sets forth the beginning of our move towards High Definition Television services.
As clients commonly refer to Premier Communications as Premier's "studios", the name is once again changed to better reflect market expectations; Premier Studios. The Premier Studios name is established to reflect our increasing diversity of craft services. The word studio, defined as an artist's workroom, represents all aspects of the traditional multi-discipline craft areas.
2000
Premier Studios becomes the first complete 24P High Definition acquisition-to-delivery production facility in the Midwest market. An early adoption of the future of video and cinematography provides our clients the best quality available, and remains the standard today.
Extensive growth in the event staging services area added a department of seven technical event experts to our staff. Major projects included concert video image magnification support for musical artists such as Paul McCartney, The Eagles, Cher, Journey, and many others. Our event staging services expands its capability to provide overall management capability. These not only included the traditional audio, video, and lighting support, but also message development, print collateral support, traffic control, and location coordination.
Later that same year, Premier Communications expands facilities by purchasing an additional building next door, adding 5,000 square feet to accommodate the growth in AV Systems Integration and Event Services.
2002
Unique to our production "craft" services at the time, was the addition of message shapers and planners who researched the message requirements and designed the message for the mediums. The function of designing the message, traditionally held by "ad agencies" or other third party marketing organizations acting as the middleman between craft and client, began to develop within our services offered. The essence of our integrated development and production approach matured at this stage to better reflect an ever-changing marketing industry, building upon our established excellence of digital technology services. Web development technologies became the catalyst to bring about the convergence of these services.
2003
July 2003, Premier Studios moves into a new 25,000 square foot facility at 10000 Marshall Drive in Lenexa, Kansas. The all-new facility provides much-needed space for growth of new technologies and service offerings.
The web development department adds enhanced function web designers and interactive specialists to complete a fully equipped Web and Interactive department referred to as PremierIS. Shortly thereafter, dedicated account services and process management staff are added to round out the integrated services.
2004
Premier Studios advances service offerings for clients with the investment of a 2000 sq ft in-house top tier datacenter. This facility provides the ability to host web applications, distribute audio/video streams via the Internet, offer videoconferencing bridging services, co-locate and manage our client's network servers, provide email management solutions, along with the necessary staff to provide enterprise infrastructure systems analysis.
2005
Premier Studios innovates the medium in the event staging market by delivering high definition wide aspect event visual image magnification. Delivery of content with images up to 60 ft. wide that are seamless, high definition composite images are delivered.
Additional data center services are expanded to provide global videoconferencing services for multi-site application management.
Premier Studios adopts the byline; Creativity | Innovation | Design to better sum up the total platform of services provided, all under an integrated marketing offering.
2006
Premier Studios adds additional online marketing expertise. Services include IP Analytics, Email Marketing, and Search Engine Marketing tools and personnel expertise.
Integrated marketing strategy development for our clients identifies a tightly connected technology niche. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions that are tied directly to any marketing objective become an expertise within our organization. Automated measurements for return on investment (ROI) are now made possible by linking measurable marketing and sales efforts to an organization's bottom line.
2007
Premier Studios enhances client services with additional message planners, strategists, and consultants. A devoted business intelligence staff helps our clientele identify market demands, trends and demographics.
The Future...
As the world evolves and the type of demands that are placed on organizations change, Premier Studios is dedicated to being at the forefront of providing marketing strategies for companies, whose products and services define lifestyle. We will continue to use the creative technologies to design the message, innovate the medium, and measure performance, while expanding markets and profitability for our clients.
