Patterson-Partington International Television Productions started in 1978 and grew into one of Canada's largest independent suppliers of television programming. TV networks contract Patterson-Partington and its subsidiary, TV2GO, to produce documentaries and coverage of many news events, elections and sports series. The latest series in production is 8 x 1/2 hours for OLN, airing in the fall of 2005 in the US and Canada.

We’ve had some exciting events recently at TV2GO! With the help of our satellite uplink truck and teleport, we uplinked Mr President Bill Clinton (that’s what you call an ex-president) in a Toronto, Canada hotel speaking ‘live’ to a huge audience in the Barbican in London, England. Mr Clinton was able to see and hear the London group on our monitor and respond immediately to their questions . They viewed him on a giant screen...and, by the way, he spoke with no notes for more than two hours!

In the late 90’s, TV2GO was the first to offer DSNG digital service in Canada. TV2GO opened its international teleport offering a whole bouquet of satellite services in Toronto that previously had to be expensively imported from the United States. TV2GO now ‘satellites’ in one hop to and from the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. Asia and Australia are reached in two-hop uplinks and downlinks. Last-minute news requests and top-quality standards conversion are no problem. There are even PAL videotape machines in the teleport. The company’s perspective as television production professionals, rather than data or telephony specialists, has given them a thorough and unique understanding of the needs of broadcasters.

TV2GO/Patterson-Partington has produced many TV documentary one-off specials, including Moscow McDonalds hosted by Christopher Plummer, Share the Flame hosted by Leslie Neilson, and Targa Newfoundland hosted by Jim Kenzie.

The company has literally hundreds of credits in live news and current affairs production for American networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and ESPN. Popular syndicated programs such as Current Affair depend on TV2GO for crews and field production in Canada.

FOX Sports has twice used TV2GO/Patterson Partington to help produce flashy openings for the Super Bowl. One of them involved Michael Douglas doing our voiceover work. Patterson-Partington regularly contributes to Eurovision (European Broadcast Union), RAI (Italy) and ASAHI (Japan).

TV2GO’ s involvment in the satellite business began with the Calgary Olympics in 1988. TV2GO won the host-broadcast contract for the 88-day Torch Relay that would open the Games. No appropriate vehicle existed that included live-camera switching, sophisticated 3-machine tape editing, graphics, commentary booth and transmission, so they built one. TV2GO became the first private Canadian company to own an uplink mobile. The company won the commission as host broadcaster for the Olympic Torch Relay against every major broadcaster in North America. This marathon required daily satellite highlights to be broadcast around the world in several languages plus primetime documentaries and a live appearance on ABC's Super Bowl broadcast.

Technical innovations we "invented" have become industry norms. In car racing, beginning in 1980, we gained fame for our unprecedented use of tiny on-board cameras during world-class competitions, despite initial opposition from drivers. We are developing and building one of North America's first HDTV satellite trucks, to complement our teleport which specializes in uplinking to and downlinking from North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

Whether producing variety specials, effective corporate videos, host broadcasting World Championship Sports Car races (live to 18 countries with 26 cameras!) or producing documentary specials, TV2GO/Patterson-Partington has been there.

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