“Every town has its industry, and you have television people to support that,” says Jef Huey, senior editor at Henninger Media Services, “and obviously the industry of Washington is politics.” Therefore, politics in one form or another drives the video industry in Washington, D.C.—advertisements being one of the largest areas. The District of Columbia has the largest concentration of firms that do political consultancy, and they mostly make political commercials to support their candidates. While some have inhouse facilities, many of the larger consultancy groups use out-of-house facilities such as Henninger Media in order to keep up with the volume of ads they run.

While the main industry of Washington is politics, there are other things as well: The Discovery Channel and National Geographic both have locations in the city, and Henninger actually has a second facility that's located across the street from National Geographic. So the big challenge for the folks at Henninger during the political ad crunch time is to continue to serve these other clients as they have deadlines for their projects as well. more>>

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