Michael P. Hill

• Michael designed and built his first set in eighth grade — a flexible solution for his school’s video announcements. He followed that up with additional sets during high school and college.
• After college and prior to founding Fifteenhundred, he spent two years at a set design firm, working on projects for stations in New Orleans, Atlanta, New Haven, Conn. and a cable sports network.
• Michael has turned his passion for set design into a Web site now known as NewscastStudio. That site has become the worldwide Web authority on television news set design and overseeing the editorial content of the site has made Michael an unparalleled expert on the set design industry, including design trends, techniques and best practices.
• Michael has lent his expertise in set design by authoring multiple articles on set design for Broadcast Engineering Magazine and other trade publications.
• Michael worked as a camera operator at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pa., giving him first-hand knowledge of the day-to-day demands a set must live up to in the fast-paced world of live news.