Public Relations

Rich Smith has spent years promoting athletes into greatness. He started out in the scouting world working with other companies before launching ASN sports. These companies, Rich determined, seemed to lack passion and commitment for their clients. Rich discovered he had the passion and he would make the athlete the center attraction by devoting his time towards their total success!

Since then, Smith has worked with many student athletes helping them to succeed not only in growing and maturing as an athlete but as a well rounded student too. He has developed a program that introduces video presentations and other promotions, along with counseling, tutoring and advising for the students. Having a background of several years officiating baseball, basketball, softball, and soccer, Rich has watched young players develop into college level athletes and learners.

While at SDSU, James covered a potpourri of events, athletes and public matters while writing as an assistant editor for The Daily Aztec and learning to shoot, produce and edit video. Some of his most notable interviews include San Diego Padres great Tony Gwynn, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the height of the autism-vaccine battle and local organizers for the now-widely known Tea Party movement.

Now out of the college scene, he continues to cover sports for an online publication in Riverside County as a freelancer and spends his Fridays with San Diego’s KUSI television station covering high school football as a behind-the-scenes field producer.

Today, while Chris still plays bass with "The Noahs," he has also branched out and begun writing some of his own songs which have been featured on some of the biggest TV shows and movies in the extreme sports industry. Mr. Swann has also opened his own company, Swann Concepts (www.swannconcepts.com), an Oceanside-based business that specializes in permanent and temporary multimedia installations.

After spending nearly 20 years in the music industry, Swann has some wise advice to pass onto those just starting. “Copyright everything. Even if you’re just putting a song on the Internet, make sure to copyright it. You’ll be happy you did and your music will be protected.”

Fa’amasani S. Unutoa is a broadcast journalist who is a native of San Diego California. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business Management from Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2004 and working in the business industry, Fa’amasani decided to pursue his passion for broadcast journalism.

While pursuing a broadcast journalism degree at Palomar College since spring of 2008, Fa’amasani has been a producer, reporter and anchor for Emmy-winning show “Prep Sports Live” and “North County News” on Cox and Time Warner Cable. He has also worked as a producer for “Inside Oceanside” for KOCT, “The Oceanside Channel”.

Throughout San Diego County, Fa’amasani has covered stories from high school student athletes to a “Journey into Africa” at the Wild Animal Park. He also covered the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2009, the effects of the H1N1 virus at local schools and a story about newspaper hawkers, who sell newspapers on our street corners. He enjoys the adrenaline rush of reporting and being able to help people tell their personal stories. “The best thing about being a broadcast journalist is the people you meet,” says Fa’amasani.

Fa’amasani also enjoys spending time with family and friends. He loves football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, skateboarding, body boarding, Polynesian and Hip-hop dancing.

Manuel Moreno has attended Palomar College. Some of the projects he has work on at Palomar are PSL, a weekly sports show for football. He has operated as the director, reporter, camera, lighting, and sound man on these projects. He is an intern at KOCT TV in Oceanside, California associating himself with other Producers in order to work his way up into producing his own TV Shows.

Manuel has come to ASN with some fresh new ideas and as the senior editor has already helped produce several top shows. The America's Finest Drag Racing program series is highlighted on this website which he has had a major roll in making. He currently is involved in the production of a full movie called "The Felix Lewis Story" and is engaged in doing Sports Highlight Videos with other members of the staff.

Rick Cox is a freelance videographer and video editor originally from Minnesota. He moved to Southern California to pursue a career in Videography. He has been working in videography and editing for the past five years. Cox has a real passion for creating superb films that really capture an audience’s attention. He specializes in extreme sports such as: skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding.

Cox has worked on short films such as a demo for Etnies featuring Sean Malto, Mike McGill's demo featuring the McTwist Skateboarding trick he invented, Tony Hawk’s demo for Shredordie.com and the 2007 Peanut Butter Rail Jam Snowboarding Competition at Mammoth Mountain. With his Boost Mobile Pro 2008 video of Surfer Kelly Slater, Cox won Best Video Shot and Edited in the 2008 Shredordie.com.

Tim Johnson is ASN Productions director of player development. He coordinates player staff meetings and does research for the development of individual athletic / student profiles by researching their teams and schools. Johnson meets with individual players and gets to know them where possible.  He gives the player his personal attention which is his strength and does comparative box score and league standings evaluations.

Tim looks for high performance high lights in newspapers, from news on TV, and on the internet, and associates himself with the athlete's coaches and principals in a reporting mode and fact gatherer. On top of all this, he runs production for on location sporting events capturing camera shots and action video. Tim seems to have developed a real talent and makes things happen easily by turning

his findings over to the editing staff and even doing some editing himself.  These behind the scenes handlings at the studio can sometimes entail long hours of review and discussions of the initial filming.

He has worked as an office assistant for an automotive repair shop, and as a Salesman and Technical Assistant with Hollywood Video and enjoys playing the drums and guitar. Does anyone need to record an event happening?
Tim Johnson is the man to call at ASN Productions.

Currently, though, Tim is on leave from ASN Productions while he serves in the Military and was recently promoted to Navy Seaman Apprentice serving in the Naval Advanced Electronics and Computer Field (AECF).

Brian D. Johnson owner and operator of Best Business Open System Services in association with ASN Productions was born in Long Beach, California. He has been in the Information Technology (IT) field and Management Information Systems (MIS) business for over 30 years. Mr. Johnson has always had a passion for sports and technology. Although having never reached the goal as a professional athlete, his love and admiration for those who do persists even today.

The mix of computer geek and sports jocky are not that common, but Brian considers himself just that, a computer sports enthusiast. Whatever way to flavor it, he enjoys his work and recreation. Johnson has also been a great source for knowledge as a tutor and mentor with his family, friends, and community and is willing and able to help out giving his time, talent, and efforts for the cause.

Johnson's background consists of working between the roles as engineer, software developer / programmer, operator, and technician using mainframe, mid range, and PC computers to design, enhance, and maintain application systems and he has spent many years playing Baseball and slow pitch softball in different leagues and on various teams for pleasure.
Brian has many adventure stories to tell about Surfing, Boogie Boarding, Water Skiing, Snow Skiing, Ice Skating, Fishing, Hunting, and Back Packing. He plays golf and coaches girls softball, has played tennis, football, basketball, field hockey, and roller hockey, and is involved in funny car and drag racing. He also plays chess and card games on occation when he can. With his experience, Brian Johnson is the perfect blend of athlete and scholar right for the business.