Mark Bradley
Mark Bradley founded Players Network in 1993 and has served as its CEO since its inception. Under his direction, Players Network became the first user of a digital broadcast system for television programming, and the first private label Gaming Network.
Bradley has been a producer/director at United Artists, and was studio manager and postproduction supervisor with United Cable Television in Los Angeles, engaged in the production, packaging and syndication of television and film productions for such media venues as HBO, Nickelodeon and MTV. As a producer/director, Bradley created live pay-per-view events, negotiated distribution deals, budgeted and packaged TV programming. Mr. Bradley created the Real Estate Broadcast Network, the first 24-hour real estate channel.
Bradley has been driving force behind the elevation of Players Network from in-room channel to national cable network, taking the company public in 1998, raising the money needed to grow its infrastructure and video library, and overseeing the business growth opportunities of the company.
Michael Berk
Michael Berk is a prolific Writer, Producer and Director with over three hundred hours of television production to his credit. Berk created and Executive produced “Baywatch,” the most popular series in television history, and is currently producing a large-budget “Baywatch” feature film for Paramount. Berk recently wrote the Feature Film “Soul Surfer” for Sony. The movie received and A+ Cinemascore, became the highest grossing surf movie in history, and was the number one selling DVD upon its release.
Berk wrote and produced the first three-hour movie ever made for television which received a Golden Globe Nomination as Best Picture and won two Emmy Awards. Berk also won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Mystery Writing.
Berk is also a significant figure in Las Vegas. He was a founding Board Member and President of the highly acclaimed “CineVegas” Film Festival, and was recognized with the prestigious Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Community Achievement Award in the category of Entertainment, and the Nevada Film Office/Las Vegas Film Critics Society “Silver Spike Award” for his contributions to the film industry in Nevada. Berk has been awarded more than a dozen Senatorial, Gubernatorial, and Mayoral Commendations and Proclamations in Nevada and Las Vegas.
Doug Miller
As CEO/COO/CFO of more than a dozen companies in a wide range of industries, Mr. Miller brings over thirty years of hands-on operating experience to the Players Network Board. Focusing on high growth start-up and turnaround companies, Mr. Miller participated in leading four companies to IPO´s. For eight years prior to his retirement in 2008, Mr. Miller served as President and COO of WinningEdge International, Inc., a publicly traded Las Vegas based sports and gaming entertainment company that he co-founded. In addition to his managerial responsibilities, Mr. Miller also served as Executive Producer of ´The Winning Edge´ television and radio programs. Mr. Miller holds a B.A. from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from Stanford University.
