Who We Are
Dan Cohen
Corey Petree
Lou Charlip
Joel Albert
Dan Cohen is a twenty-eight year, six-time regional Emmy award-winning veteran of live and postproduction television. During his assignment covering Health and Medicine at NBC's Washington, DC station, Dan received numerous awards including two Emmys for outstanding achievement in medical producing. His production work in health and science has also won him awards from The Associated Press, The American Heart Association, The March of Dimes, and the Washington, DC chapter of The Prevention of Blindness Society.
Dan's commercial production company West Street Productions received an Emmy award for producing, writing and directing a Public Service Announcement that focused on handgun safety. The company has also been honored with three awards in the public relations field, The Telly, The Communicator Award, and The Mercury Award, for the production of a video on fire safety and infants, produced for the U.S. Fire Administration.
During his long career as a television producer, Dan's assignments have taken him from remote cities in South America to the launch pad of America's Space Shuttle to the presidential campaign trail. His skill for comprehensive coverage under deadline also won him a wide range of field producer assignments including war zones with US troops in Bosnia and the Middle East, touring with the Pope, national political conventions, President Reagan's inauguration and Florida hurricane devastation.
Dan has worked in the field and in the control rooms of network-affiliated stations in Orlando, Miami and Washington DC, where he was employed by NBC's station as a line producer, special projects producer, and health and science producer.
In addition to his two Emmy awards for medical coverage, and his latest Emmy in commercial production, Dan has received three Emmy awards for newscast production and live broadcast production. Dan has also earned numerous Emmy nominations and prestigious awards, including The Ohio State University Journalism award for his achievements in investigative reporting.
Dan Cohen is the founder of West Street Productions, a motion picture production company of television, film and corporate projects. The company specializes in the development and production of programming for broadcast and cable networks. West Street also provides media training and media consulting. West Street was honored with the "1999 Tony Cox Award" for outstanding achievement in the production of Public Service Announcements.
Dan has lectured for the School of Communications at Ithaca College in broadcast journalism and production. He is a graduate of Ithaca with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications.
Corey Petree is an award winning, innovative film and video editor and motion graphic designer with over 20 years experience as an editor and producer. After graduating from film school, Corey began his career as a cinematographer and film editor at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Since 1999, he has worked for a variety of corporate, agency, broadcast, post-production houses and government clients in the Washington, DC area. He has edited marketing and promotional productions, broadcast programs and commercials, as well as high-end corporate programs designed for live audiences. Though he produces multi-layered, sophisticated visuals, Corey believes that the core of video and film production is storytelling - getting a point across clearly and memorably.
Lou Charlip is an award winning sports producer whose credits include nationally syndicated sports television, the George Michael Sports Machine, WNBC and WCBS TV in New York City, NBA Entertainment, ESPN, the PGA, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball, and NFL Football - the Redskins and the New York Jets.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lou began his television career as a producer-anchor-reporter at WXEX-TV (now WRIC) in Richmond, Virginia. Lou also helped coordinate the stations telecast of the Richmond Braves, Atlanta's Triple A baseball affiliate, and helped produce PM Magazine.
After four years in Richmond, Lou joined Major League Baseball Productions and worked on many award-winning programs including "This Week In Baseball. He helped start Baseball News Satellite (now SNS), a daily feed service providing stations with highlights and features.
Next was a twelve-year stint as a lead producer for The George Michael Sports Machine, where he won four Emmy awards and three National Motor Sports Press Association awards. As a producer for the nationally syndicated program, Lou met hundreds of prominent athletes, covered every major sporting event and helped develop and produce original programming and segments.
Lou then became an Executive Producer at WNBC-TV in New York where he guided the top rated Sports department in the city. He won an Emmy award for a live prime time special on the life of Jackie Robinson, hosted by Al Roker and Len Berman. The program also won numerous other awards including a prestigious award from the New York Broadcasters Association.
When CBS reacquired the NFL in 1998, Lou was hired by WCBS in New York as the Executive Producer of Sports Programming. He helped create and oversaw programming including Jets Post game and half time shows, The Bill Parcells Coach's show, Riggins and Russo Live, hosted by John Riggins and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, and two prime time specials hosted by Phil Simms.
In November 2000, Lou returned to Washington DC and The Sports Machine where he has won another Emmy award and eight more National Motor Sports Press Association awards. He created and produced Redskins programs for WRC-TV.
He has produced programming for Home and Garden Television, DIY Network and PBS. He recently Executive Produced a pilot for USA Today, a program based on the content of the newspaper.
Joel Albert is a distinguished television news producer and executive. His extensive broadcast career has encompassed work as reporter, writer, producer, and manager. Most of that time was devoted to service with the National Broadcasting Company. He is a double winner of the coveted Emmy award for producing WRC-TV's evening newscast and a documentary.
His broadcast career began in Philadelphia where, as a reporter, he covered the crime beat from the precinct station house to federal mob-busters. He continued this observation of the criminal justice system during later reporting assignments in Wilmington, Youngstown, and Cleveland.
Joel has been a pioneer and innovator in the application of new technology in the broadcast news workplace, introducing and training his news colleagues for use of computers and satellites. He has an outstanding record in planning, organizing, and producing major news events such as elections, political conventions, and large scale public demonstrations. In addition to representing NBC before community organizations, Joel has addressed professional groups and lectured college classes on issues surrounding the television news industry.
In Washington, he served two terms as Chairman of the Metropolitan Area Police/Media Relations Committee, a group of journalists and law enforcement officials from numerous regional jurisdictions. He was appointed by the mayor as a member of the committee providing oversight of police credentials for news personnel and drafted guidelines governing their issuance.
Joel has served on the National Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was past president of The United Press Broadcasters of Pennsylvania. He was elected to membership in the Washington Television Academy's Silver Circle, which recognizes significant contributors to the television industry.
Since retiring from active NBC service, he has consulted on various news production projects for the NBC TV Stations Division and has served as coordinating producer for the 1996 political conventions and presidential debates.
A graduate of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, with a B.S. degree in Communications.