Who We Are

tvacom is a full‑service television and film company based in Los Angeles, providing professional camera, lens, audio, lighting, engineering, and OB/Sprinter rental packages — backed by experienced crew and full production support. For over 25 years, productions have relied on tvacom when the gear has to work and the timeline can’t slip. From single‑camera shoots to complex multi‑camera live broadcasts, we supply the equipment, build the packages, and put the right people on set to make it happen. Most rental houses hand you a box and wave goodbye — we pair top‑tier equipment with seasoned engineers, camera crew, and technical staff, so you can book a single camera, a complete OB truck, or an entire crewed production from one team that already knows how it all fits together.

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Dave Thies, President & CEO

Dave Thies is an Emmy‑winning producer, director, and cinematographer with more than 25 years in television and film. He has produced, directed, or shot hundreds of episodes, films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials — including serving as a producer on the acclaimed feature The Peanut Butter Falcon. tvacom’s recent credits include Everybody Loves Raymond’s 30th Anniversary Special (CBS), Project Runway (Freeform/Hulu), Next Gen Chef and the Is It Cake? series (Netflix), Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (Hulu), Project Greenlight (HBO Max), and The All‑In Summit. Dave founded tvacom to bring that same production‑grade standard to every rental and crew booking — treating every client’s project like it’s his own.

David Kaplan, Head of Engineering

David Kaplan (known as Kaplan on set) leads engineering at tvacom, designing and running the technical backbone behind some of today’s most demanding live and multi‑camera productions. As a technical supervisor on more than 35 television series and specials, his credits include Project Runway, Next Gen Chef, Love Island USA, the Is It Cake? series, Project Greenlight: A New Generation, Kevin Hart’s FAF for Netflix, Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts, and the Everybody Loves Raymond 30th Anniversary Reunion. Kaplan is constantly searching for new ways to answer old questions — and he has a rare gift for figuring out the answer. He’s the engineer you want when a build is one‑of‑a‑kind and failure isn’t an option, and that problem‑solving runs through every system tvacom designs, integrates, and sends to set.