Between publication of the original "videography" article in 1972 and 1982, The Videography Company & Studios produced over 2500 national, regional and local TV commercials and production supervision on numerous network series and feature motion pictures.

Significant Production Credits:

• 1973-1974 Associate Producer & Assistant Director “Under the Law” a Phillip Abbot Production for the US Justice Department.
• 1974-1975 Adapeted Quad split editing system first used on ABC's Barney Miller Show and edited the first season of the series. (Note: Leon Russell inspired to use the quad split with a series on Outlaw Music for "Austin City Limits")
• 1978-1980 Produced Clio & Monitor award winning "Duke of Cheddar" commercial series featuring Jonathon Winters for Freeto-Lay.
• 1979 Produced and directed 30 minute documentary on Kemp-Roth tax bill for Republican National Committee. The bill was enacted into law.
• 1979-1982 Produced, and directed the award winning Food series for Safeway Supermarkets.
• 1981 Produced The Great American Beer Test series for Schlitz beer telecast live from New Orleans in the 1981 Super Bowl.
• 1979-1982 Produced Sanyo "That's Life" commercial series featuring Susan Anton.
• 1980 Produced & Directed 60 second TV commercials featuring Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford for Republican National Committee.
• 1980-1982 Produced Motown music videos featuring Rick James and Marvin Gaye, that broke early black artists onto MTV.
• 1984 Produced & Directed "Cycle To The Sun", bike race and 30 minute Emmy nominated TV music video show about the "climb against time up the steepest highway on Earth" for KGMB-TV, Hawaii.
• 1986-1995 Coordinated production with (and appeared in) television feature coverage of CRUISER BOB'S HALEAKALA DOWNHILL, Maui, HI, including: Turner Broadcasting's "Portrait of America", ABC's "Good Morning America", MTV's "The Real World", several segments for "Entertainment Tonight", "The Regis & Kathy Lee Show", "PM Magazine" and score of European and Austral-Asian shows.
• 1984 Design consultant on Costa Rica Downhill bicycle adventure.
• 1991-1996 Designed and lobbied for Maui's first Greenway, resulting in $3.5 million in Federal funding through the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1992. (ISTEA)
• 1996-2002 Cruiser Bob’s Oceanside BikePackers designed bicycle / train transport strategy.

As the videography market grew, the Videography Studios, began to feel the powerful forces that were were chipping away at the company's niche. Massive capital investments on early video technology made the company uncompetitive as younger more nimble rivals began to utilize the techniques that The Videography Studios had popularized. The company ran out of resources in late 1981 after making numerous attempts to find markets for independent video productions.

At the time Kiger was quoted "video is best suited for reality programming and, other than sports and news, the public has little appetite for reality." In 1982 he turned over the keys to Videography Studios to his financial backers and staff and moved to the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

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