Full-service HD media studio opens in Troy

NextWave,Inc. a new business incubator, has opened its doors and by most definitions, would provide steady cultivation of budding start-ups. But NextWave is taking things to a new level by offering an HD media studio on-site.

The NextWave incubator in Troy is the vision of a group of high-profile principals, including former CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber, Dick Blouse.

Founders are Bobby Skinner and Amjad Hussain, and Nancy Skinner, media consultant and regular contributor to Fox News, who will manage the media center.

“NextWave Inc. is a private venture, so by its nature we are trying to make a profit. But that being said, we are all big on Michigan and we want to create a new energy and jobs for the state,” states CEO Bobby Skinner.

“We bought the building partly because of the auditorium, which is now the ‘Digitorium’. We thought we could make good use of it. My partners and I thought we could make a win-win situation by starting a company with Nancy and create a profit center quickly for NextWave through the media studio,” he says.

“We’re the only HD uplink TV studio in Detroit,” claims Nancy Skinner, president/CEO of NextWave Media Studios and Bobby Skinner’s sister.

“We offer full-spectrum communications, live TV and internet broadcasts, a full production studio, all the fancy jewels and deliverables for about a fraction of the costs of the giants of the industry,” she says.

Skinner believes the local advertising industry has turned upside down. “Small companies don’t have to be huge anymore to get the content and production value out to the big companies,” she explains.