Mr. McElhatton has been director of television, video production, and webcasting for VCHS since 2002. "Mac" is a former television News Director, who ran the newsroom at KNTV-TV in San Jose (now NBC11) from 1989 to 1998. Prior to coming to VCHS Mr. McElhatton was Senior Producer at ZDTV, the technology network in San Francisco (1998-2000), during the rise and fall of the Web bubble. ZDTV was bought by Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen and renamed the TechTV network (2000-2002).
Mr. McElhatton helped launch the network's nightly newscast in 1998, then launched a television program and compannion web site called "Big Thinkers," in 2000. The 'Bg Thinkers' program interviewed the best and brightest minds in technology, from Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the World Wide Web), to Stan Lee (Marvel Comics creator, who was launching an Internet comics site). [WATCH B.T. PROMO]
Mr. McElhatton is passionate about video documentaries. One of his students, Jake Viramontez, won an International Best Student Documentary award for his 2005 video on "The Hanna Project," a medical mission trip to civil war-torn Ivory Coast in Africa, along with another award for a documentary on Firefighters, "Behind The Flames."
Mr. McElhatton has been married to his wife Robin since 1984. Robin is a video producer at Transvideo Productions in Mountain View. They have two children, both VCHS graduates. Daughter, Lauren graduated from UC San Diego in 2007 with a degree in Visual Arts-Media. Thier son, Christopher is currently a student at UC Santa Barbara, double majoring in Film and Sociology.

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