OPM-Services, LLC — Broadcast & AV Systems Integration

Who we serve

One integrator for broadcast, production and presentation.

Our engineering and support staff bring multi-disciplined experience across AV, broadcast, IT, project management, service and business — so every project gets a comprehensive, integrated analysis of its features and components.

Television stationsMaster control, news, production, transmission

Houses of worshipIMAG, broadcast, volunteer-friendly control

Production & postStudios, edit suites, audio rooms, storage

Academic institutionsClassrooms, auditoriums, lecture capture

TelecommunicationsNetwork operations, distribution, worldwide

About OPM-Services

Ethics, integrity and complete honesty as our compass.

In 1996, Stephen D. Rosen founded TV Magic — and then OPM-Services, LLC — to help broadcast engineers meet the challenges of rapidly changing technology. The principles haven't changed: open, honest relationships built on what you need and want, and technology choices that maximize your return on investment.

Today, OPM-Services, LLC is a respected systems integrator. We approach each project and customer relationship with a focus on identifying your needs, priorities and preferences to provide elegant systems and workflow solutions that are within your budget and delivered on time.

We believe it is critical that you understand not only what you can do with your system, but what you cannot do based on budget, equipment requests and desires. Our approach guarantees your expectations are clearly defined, monitored and executed throughout your project — providing ongoing value engineering for cost and quality, and a final deliverable that meets all of your technical and financial requirements.

We make it a priority to:

1

Listen

to what your objectives are, and stay focused on those objectives throughout our design process.

2

Evaluate

a working system design to determine what may be redundant in features and functionality, and which equipment will provide a better system solution.

3

Recommend

once redundancies or cost-effective technical substitutions are identified, we bring our findings to you with our technical recommendations.

4

Collaborate

after presenting all of the information, we work with you to select equipment that meets your business objectives and deliver a system that does what you need it to do.

No steps, designs or equipment types are assumed — client acceptance is required to continue through each stage of the design/build process.

SR

Stephen D. Rosen

Managing Member, OPM-Services, LLC
Former President & CEO, TV Magic, Inc.

Stephen is the founder and Managing Member of OPM-Services, LLC. Since 1996 he grew TV Magic and then OPM-Services into respected broadcast systems integrators with more than 400 completed projects and offices in San Diego, Los Angeles and Latin America. Clients include CBS, FOX, Warner Bros., ESPN, Televisa, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), Trinity Broadcasting Network, Crystal Cathedral and many houses of worship and ministries.

With over 30 years in every aspect of the broadcast industry — including part ownership and management of a Univision network affiliate and several low-power television stations — Steve has directed a network operations center through all phases of broadcasting and strategic planning, coordinating operations, production, traffic and programming to more than 400 network affiliates worldwide.

His background spans a BA and MS in Geology, executive organizing for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, television station ownership, and building new-media solutions for mobile, web and desktop — including three granted patents. That range lets him quickly understand the workflow, technology and business issues of his clients, and deliver elegant solutions focused on minimizing cost and maximizing return on investment.

Broadcast operationsSystems designStrategic planningNew mediaUS Patents 9,058,375 · 9,726,479 · 9,715,506

Quality assurance

Processes that keep every project — small or large — at the highest quality.

Design reviews

An Initial Design Review and a Critical Design Review for Phases I and II. An engineering manager reviews scope documents, timelines and block and flow diagrams before anything is presented to you — so your project draws on the whole engineering team.

Installation standards

Each project has a crew chief who drives the crew to the timeline and enforces OPM standards for mechanical installation, cable termination and dress. A project engineer joins as systems come alive, resolving issues quickly with the design engineer.

Tracking & sign-off

Hours are tracked weekly in every phase and compared to estimates. Wrap-up meetings capture lessons learned, and a project sign-off form records your agreement that each phase is complete to your satisfaction.

AV Consulting

Why bring in a systems integrator?

Broadcasters often have engineering staff in place; AV teams and non-profits watch every dollar. Both ask the same question — "why do I need an SI?" A competent integrator makes design/build more cost-effective, not less. Here's why.

Impartial evaluation

We're hired for expertise, not politics. We'll tell you when we disagree — and why — so you get the most efficient facility, not a yes-man's version of it.

Frees your in-house team

Your engineers and operators are not full-time system designers. Let them run the facility while we carry the design, so daily operations never get thrown off kilter.

An outside view

After hundreds of projects across industries, we've seen how technologies combine in unexpected ways. That perspective is what you're really paying for.

Manufacturer relationships

We track the products, providers and technologies entering and leaving the market — and we offer multiple equipment options, objectively, regardless of whom we represent.

Accountability

Our name is tied to your project. A single point of contact, backed by an expanded team of specialists from each vendor, with a vested interest in your success.

Flexibility

Manufacturers are limited to their own technology. We're not — we present options alongside a benefit analysis.

Software & controls

Real-time system information, automation and control surfaces designed around how your people actually work.

Strong engineering

Commissioning is the hardest part of any start-up. Problem-solvers who "make it happen" bring the system up fastest.

Reduced workload

Vertical and horizontal integration planned from day one, so every area of the facility talks to every other.

Value engineering

The lowest cost is not always the best value.

Every system is unique and most budgets are narrow. As we define the technical and operational aspects of your system, we develop specifications, select products that meet them — weighing reputation, market history, technology and availability — and build a Bill of Materials. If the BOM exceeds your equipment budget, value engineering begins:

Protect the critical path. Verify the signal chain that most affects the final product (camera → switcher → server → air) keeps its best-value equipment.
Substitute in the non-critical path. Identify lower-cost products that still meet the original specification — presented in writing, with justification and any benefit lost.
Revisit specifications. If still over budget, evaluate reduced specifications for non-critical items, with the trade-offs presented for your approval.
Design for the future. If necessary, design to the ultimate quantity but purchase fewer now — built for "plug and play" additions when new budgets allow.

Value Engineering Process: design phase and needs analysis, equipment review and selection, bill of materials, then budget approval; if over budget, verify critical-path equipment, review non-critical equipment, change specifications, change quantities or design for the future until in budget, then purchase from the BOM. Results: right equipment, optimized cost, maintained performance. — Value Engineering Process — click to enlarge

System design considerations

Design/build is never as simple as it seems.

Every one of these systems must be addressed, determined relevant to your project, then researched, designed for and integrated. We consult with you to build the equipment list around production style, workflow, budget, technical specifications and local operational experience.

Video & cameras

Audio & intercom

Routing & distribution

Control & automation

IT & networking

Storage & archive

Timing & sync

Monitoring & multiviewers

Electrical loads

HVAC & mechanical

Racks & consoles

Documentation & CAD

Please note: OPM-Services, LLC is not an electrical, mechanical or HVAC contractor and does not provide architectural drawings. We provide conceptual drawings and specifications for evaluation by your architect and licensed engineers.

Software Consulting

Software built by people who run broadcast operations.

Alongside systems integration, OPM-Services designs and builds software for media, sports and advertising workflows — multiplatform applications for mobile, web and desktop, backed by three granted U.S. patents.

Coming soon · App Store & Google Play

PhotoTag

Your calendar, in every photo.

PhotoTag writes the details of your calendar event (its name, description, keywords and place) into the photos you take, as standard tags that common photo tools can read. Take a picture during an event (a trip, a hike, a wedding, a site visit) and the photo carries those details in the file itself.

Private by design: no account, no ads, no tracking. PhotoTag does its work on your phone, and we never see your photos or your calendar.

Photos and videos taken in the app are named after the event and numbered in order.
Events nest: a morning’s snorkeling inside a week-long trip? Photos taken then carry both.
Took them with your regular camera? Tag afterward saves tagged copies. Your originals are not changed.
Speak a note, and the words are written into the next photo.
Videos get a standard companion file with the same details. The video file itself is not changed.

Coming soon on theApp Store Coming soon onGoogle Play

Privacy Policy · Terms of Use Questions or support: support@opm-servicesllc.com · (858) 848-1114

Athelytix

Transforming sports through precision performance analytics.

Athelytix built The Grid™, a multifaceted platform combining patented beam-interrupt laser technology with proprietary software to capture high-precision performance data. It serves athletes, coaches and sports organizations from high school to the pros — measuring performance and biomechanics, supporting scouting and recruiting, powering fan-engagement experiences and opening retail and revenue opportunities. OPM-Services designed and built the software behind it.

The Grid™ platformBiomechanicsScoutingFan engagement

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eViper Business Suite

From GO / NO-GO to signed quote, in one dashboard.

A custom-built business suite for Viper Integration Services & Cabling. Every opportunity starts with a GO / NO-GO evaluation; on a GO, the purpose-built Estimator prices the job and the Quote module turns it into a proposal. The dashboard also includes a custom CRM and a social-media creation studio that drafts and schedules posts for Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

GO / NO-GOEstimatorQuoteCRMSocial studio

Ad Agency Station Traffic System

Draft copy — Stephen to confirm. Traffic and scheduling system connecting ad agencies with television stations — orders, spot placement, logs, affidavits and billing in one workflow, drawn from decades of running network traffic and programming.

Traffic & schedulingAgency ↔ stationBilling

Have a workflow that off-the-shelf software doesn't fit? Tell us about it — we scope, design and build to the same five-phase discipline we use for facilities.

Design / Build

A proven five-phase process — nothing purchased until you approve.

"Design/build" and "value engineering" are easy to say. Without a time-tested road map, projects slide off schedule and over budget. OPM-Services consistently uses one proven five-phase process. Each phase has required deliverables; each ends with your review and approval before the next begins.

Phase I

Research & Design

Goals, requirements, form-fit-function, performance standards, block diagrams, preliminary equipment list and budgets.

Phase II

Final Design & CAD

Concurrent final design (II-A) and final CAD (II-B): BOM, rack elevations, loads, wire diagrams, database, schedule — budget approved.

Phase III

Installation

Equipment check-in, racks and consoles set, cable cut, run, terminated, labeled and dressed; as-built corrections.

Phase IV

System Test

Alignment, level setting and timing, programming, proof of performance, punch list, final performance documentation.

Phase V

Training & Delivery

Operator and engineer training, manufacturer training, delivery of as-built CAD and all final documentation.

Client review and approval gates every phase — and the facility is Project Operational at the end of Phase V.

Phase I — Research and Design▾

It is in Phase I that the exact requirements and constraints of the system are defined. All subsequent phases refine and execute the specifications developed collaboratively with you here. We also recognize that you may have pre-purchased or existing equipment — we'll integrate it properly with everything new.

Define requirements of form, fit and function
Define system performance standards and specifications
User / engineering meetings and technology review
Conceptual block diagrams and signal flows to your approved functional requirements
Preliminary equipment list — type and manufacturer
Short- and long-term operations strategies
Preliminary project timelines and installation schedules
Preliminary budgets, including estimates for Phases II–V

Phase II — Finalize Configuration (II-A Final Design · II-B Final CAD)▾

Phase II refines the Phase I findings into an executable plan for single-line wiring and mechanical work. Budgets are prepared with specific line-item equipment lists, purchasing is set in place, and timelines are finalized. Rack elevations, floor plans and a cable database are produced and prepared for installation.

Documentation plan established; equipment specifications
Bill of Materials (make, model, quantities) and budgets documented
Phase III, IV and V costs determined — client approves all budgets
Space planning and rack elevations finalized
HVAC / electrical load requirements provided to your engineers
Equipment ordered; project tracking begins
Console design specifications; DA tray, router and patchbay assignments
Single-line CAD diagrams, wire database and installation wiring reports
Project timelines and installation schedule finalized

Phase III — Installation▾

Equipment is ordered and deliveries arrive. Your construction and build-out should be complete, dust-free and ready — electrical and HVAC installed and operational. OPM maintains supervisory authority for installation, selects and procures all installation materials, follows all local, state and federal rules and broadcast standards, and adheres to good engineering practice throughout.

Equipment delivery, check-in and testing
Racks and consoles set; equipment prepped for rack mounting
Equipment internal configuration set
Cables prepared, cut, run, terminated, labeled and dressed
Disposal / storage of packing material
As-built CAD, database, reports and labels corrected for last-minute changes
Equipment manuals categorized and bound; technical procedures documented

Phase IV — System Testing▾

System configuration, testing, proof-of-performance and alignment after all equipment is installed — to the performance specifications defined in Phase I and finalized in Phase II. When Phase IV is complete, the facility is fully operational.

System test and operational capabilities
Alignment of distribution amplifiers, level setting and timing adjustments
Equipment programming and setup
Completion of all punch-list items
Final as-built and performance documentation

Phase V — Training and Delivery▾

Delivery of the completed, fully operational system. You review all final documentation and operational specifications; Phase V — and the project — is complete upon delivery of the final documentation and drawings.

System training for your designated operators and engineers
Coordination of specialized equipment training by manufacturers
Delivery of all final documentation and as-built CAD drawings
Delivery of final technical procedural documentation

OPM-Services System Design / Build Process Map showing Phases I through V with client review gates and the deliverables of each phase, ending in Project Operational. — System Design / Build Process Map — click to enlarge

Project management

Managed to PMBOK best practices, from kickoff to sign-off.

Management plans are created at the start and adhered to for the duration of the project. Weekly reporting of actual progress against the master schedule, standardized document revision control with a shared document site for your review, daily on-site quality control, and written records of every issue and its resolution.

Staffing & resourcesScheduleDesign & implementationDocumentsQualityEquipment & materialsCommunicationsIssuesChange orders

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Projects

Selected work.

From one of the largest broadcast builds in the country to volunteer-run worship systems and classrooms — each designed, project-managed and installed by OPM-Services. Select a project to read the case study.