Locked-On Communications, LLC, is a leader in providing mobile digital satellite technology and television production for traditional news markets, major corporations and the Internet. Dean Hovell, President of Locked-On Communications has more than 27 years of experience in the television business. He has built an innovative company that started with a proven track record and continues to surpass the highest expectations through strategic alliances in Los Angeles, Washington, New York, Europe and throughout the world.
Locked-On has long term relationships with the best camera crews in the country. When we supply your crew needs you are getting the most talented, best equipped camera people in the business. Our camera crews will represent you and your company with pride. Our job is to make you look good on every level.
The editors we work with are the best I have worked with in my television career. Whether cutting pretty pictures, news, documentaries or totally deadline driven, you name it, they can do it.
Dean Hovell
Dean spent more than 22 years at ABC News. Starting as a tape editor he won his first Emmy award for coverage at the Winter Olympics in Calgary in 1988.
In 2000, Dean ended his ABC career as Senior Operations Producer for
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in the Washington News Bureau. He also won his second Emmy for his production work on ABC’s Millennium Special. In that time Dean covered all the major news events over two decades, traveling from Haiti to Bosnia and Moscow to Somalia. National Security was the story he was telling, but news and television production was his expertise.
Dean started Locked-On Communications in April of 2000 with the goal of taking advantage of the new digital wave and combining his production experience to join the Internet, digital theatre and television production into a seamless digital transmission in whatever format, in whatever venue.
