Automated Broadcast Consultants, Inc. was founded in 1985, by Rose and Alden Shipley as a consultation firm to provide Broadcasters with information about the coming digital age. Convergence (the blending of digital, computer and analog electronics) was (and is) a bewildering choice of formats, operating systems, computers, and software.

We also analyzed the growth of cable at the time, and found ourselves functioning as a marketing and sales organization for several cable companies. We ascertained that the weakness in the convergence industry would be in furnishing enough software for all of the distribution points that are now available. Hence we decided that creating quality programming for clients would be a needed adjunct to our main product, consultation.

In the course of our evolving company, we found it necessary to create video presentations necessary to show our areas of expertise. This became ABCi Productions. We were asked to create video for our clients, and the next thing we knew, we were a production company.

Imagine our surprise when the production business took off and soon replaced consulting as the primary focus of our company. We have produced over three hundred television commercials, Three thirteen week series, and a host of sales, merchandising, instruction, and franchise video on a variety of formats. We have relocated our company from Miami Beach, Florida to Louisville Kentucky. We feel that Louisville is an up and coming market for the production business.