Baird Television Associates was founded by Douglas Baird after working in staff positions for CTV and CBC here in Vancouver. We supply experienced freelance crews to a wide variety of local and international clients. Over the years, we’ve had the good fortune to work for ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, ESPN, FOX, A&E, Discovery, National Geographic and many other broadcasters.
In 1994, shoots for the BBC and Channel 4 led us to purchase the first PAL/625 Betacam camera in western Canada, set up our sister company, PALCAM CANADA and begin to offer documentary production services in the PAL format. Over the years, we’ve expanded both our equipment list and our client base. For more information on these services, please visit PALCAM CANADA
If you're shooting a network doc, a magazine piece or a high end Fortune 500 corporate project, let us help make your shoot a success. We combine a love of visual story telling with passionate attention to technical detail and enjoy finding cost-effective solutions for production challenges. We're fully equipped for documentary/EFP production. Our specialty is single camera HDEFP and Sony XDCamHD shoots and we often co-ordinate multi-camera projects.
2010 OLYMPIC GAMES - We were filming with Germany's ARD TV as the IOC (International Olympic Committee) announced that Vancouver/Whistler had been chosen to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Leading up to the games we worked with Australia's Foxtel Network to do the on-site Pre-Olympic promos for their three channels of Olympic coverage. During the Games we were pleased to supply broadcast crewing for NBC and ARD, cover the 'Olympic Torch Relay' for Coca Cola and McDonalds and do corporate projects for Samsung and Wheaties.
ROYAL COVERAGE - Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - We were honoured to assist ABC in the coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine in London and to follow the Royal couple on their nine day cross-Canada Tour for the Canadian Tourism Commission/Destination Canada. Rick Bennett 'our Royal Wedding Specialist' was also on location in Windsor and London in 2005 as part of the ABC TV News team covering the marriage of HRH Prince Charles to Camilla and again in 2018 to do background segments and live coverage for the ABC News Special on the marriage of Harry and Meghan.
WOMEN DELIVER 2019
In the summer of 2019 we were pleased to help host this international conference supporting Womens rights and the empowerment of Women.
This was the World's largest conference on gender equality. Over 8,000 delegates from 165 countries gathered on site and
millions more joined online or via international broadcasters.
We set up two Live studios and co-ordinated 15 cameras for breakout sessions and documentary coverage.
