Bruce Allen - ballen@interlinknet.com
President, Interlink Network
Bruce Allen has for the past 30 years been in the forefront of electronic entertainment and content delivery. In the late 1970’s at WNET TV, NY and WPIX TV, NY, he wrote for and produced local news shows; In the 1980’s, as the founding Manager of Network Operations for Cable Health Network he worked with the delivery of programming and data over satellite; He was founding Vice President for Operations, Engineering, and Production for Lifetime Television where he supervised the Network’s launch and roll out via satellite to thousands of cable systems; At Request Television Mr. Allen was founding Vice President for Operations and Engineering where he pioneered the first commercial, television network encrypted satellite transmissions as well as the advent of satellite-delivered Pay-Per-View; As President of Atlantic Satellite Communications, a major satellite facility serving the New York Metropolitan Area, Mr. Allen engineered the acquisitions and rapid growth which eventually positioned the company as the lead in a group of companies sold to Liberty Media for over $100 million. Then, in 1991 Mr. Allen formed Interlink Network Corp. to provide experienced and innovative technical and operational solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, direct to home, Internet and private networks. Interlink continues to the present day to pioneer in and incorporate the latest advances in technology and workflow management. Its most recent launch, Fox Pan American Sports Network, features a non-linear, tapeless, file-based workflow.
In 1999 Mr. Allen founded Interlink High-Speed Technologies (HST). HST provided world-wide satellite datacasting services to IBM’s PC Division. HST delivered the huge, custom software files and operating systems which were loaded on the hard drives of new PCs at the IBM factory in China. Until 2007, when IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, Incorporated of China, more than 75% of all PCs built by IBM had harddrives loaded with software from the satellite delivery system developed and managed by Interlink.
On December 31, 2007 Fox Pan American Sports (FPAS) Network went on the air from Mexico City. FPAS is comprised of two, full time, ad supported channels serving millions of cable and direct broadcast satellite customers in Mexico and the countries throughout the northern portion of South America. The channels were moved from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City with nothing more than a 1 second, on-air glitch. The launch of the FPAS channels in Mexico represented the culmination of a one year effort developed, and managed by Interlink. The FPAS project continues a long and successful history of channel launches and start-ups for Mr. Allen and Interlink. Under his leadership, Interlink has participated in the planning, building and launch of more than 25 national television networks in the USA, Europe and Latin America. Interlink has generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue from clients that include Time Warner, Vulcan Ventures, Bloomberg TV, Fox, Central European Media Enterprises, Multimedia-Gannett, TV Globo, RRSat and many, many others.
Mr. Allen holds a Degree in Broadcasting from New York University and is a member of SMPTE, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers.