Brendan "BT" Tacey Named World's Best Imager

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, April 1, 2019

Brendan BT Tacey

Benztown has announced that Brendan "BT" Tacey, Head of Production, Triple M Network, Southern Cross Austereo in Melbourne, Australia, captured the title of World's Best Imager on Friday, March 29, 2019, winning the high stakes 8th Annual Iron Imager competition at the Worldwide Radio Summit held at Castaway in Burbank, CA. Tacey took on reigning Iron Imager Champion Sam Wickens, Assistant Audio Producer for Capital FM in London in a head-to-head live audio imaging competition presented annually by Benztown. Iron Imager is the first and only competition of its kind.

Tacey and Wickens demonstrated their world-class imaging skills by producing a promo on Thursday, March 28, for a format unannounced until the day of the live competition. This year's format was Country. The Iron Imager finalists used hand-picked elements from several of Benztown's 23 production libraries and an original script created by the Benztown team to create their promo in just 60 minutes.

Judges for 2019 Iron Imager were:

• Kelly "K3" Doherty, President, TheImagingHouse.com
• Charese Fruge, LLC Talent Consultant and Voice Actor
• Dan Kelly, Creative Services Director, WPLJ/New York, CUMULUS MEDIA
• Bob Lawrence, Vice President/Programming, Saga Communications
• Readers of the Benztown Imaging Blog

Iron Imager 2019 Brendan "BT" Tacey, is Head of Production for Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M Network in Melbourne, Australia, a position he has held for the last 10 years. He was previously a longstanding Imaging Producer on what was formerly The Today Network, and has worked in the UK for GWR/Capital.