Mal Wienges From The Sedona Chamber on Visit Sedona TV

Mal was instrumental in forming the Sedona Chamber's Film Office in 2006. Mal also serves on the City of Sedona's Public Works Quality Assurance Committee, Sedona's Main Street Design Committee, and Saint John Vianney's Finance Committee.Last year Governor Napolitano appointed Mal to serve as an Arizona State Film Commissioner. He was also elected to, and currently serves on, the Executive Committee of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (The Emmy Organization.)Mal spent an illustrious 31 years at the CBS Television Network. He began as a management trainee and rose to position of Vice President. Wienges is credited with originating the concept of remote production for daytime dramas when he took The Guiding Light to the Bahamas. Since then, Mal has produced more than 158 television and film productions. Mal received two National Emmys, including one for technical achievement for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and a second National Emmy in 1992 for the NFL on CBS.Wienges, an honors graduate from C.W. Post College with a B.S. in atomic and nuclear physics, obtained a Masters of Science degree in engineering management from Long Island University. Mal is President of Sedona Broadcasting, and serves as a television consultant to the Warner Brothers Television Network and IBM.