Draft:Brian Seth Hurst

Hurst was introduced to radio and television at an early age. He is the son of the Philadelphia radio and television personality Ed Hurst of the Steel Pier television show, Summertime on the Pier, and in the 1950s WPEN Radio’s Grady & Hurst 950 Club. His mother, Sarajane Hurst, was Philadelphia’s first woman television producer.[http://templetv.net/shows/philadelphia-broadcast-legends/bill-webber-and-cissie-hurst/ "Bill Webber and Cissie Hurst"], Temple University Television She was president of the Philadelphia chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. While in college, Hurst was assistant to the producer, his mother, while she produced several years of the Philadelphia segment of The Variety Club Telethon.

In 2006, Hurst developed and launched the Rapid Cross Media Initiative to assist broadcast clients in extending their programming to audiences and communities on new platforms. The vision, according to Hurst, was to allow for the maximization of assets and best-in-class technology vendors to "talk to each other" and to be efficiently integrated into the production process. As a consultant, Hurst promoted this idea while helping develop the original user experience for TiVo, a DVR and multi-room experience.

Hurst coined the term "cross-platform" in 1998 as managing director of convergent media at Pittard Sullivan[http://www.caucus.org/news/0306_panel_Hurst_Brian_Seth.html "BRIAN SETH HURST"], The Caucus to describe client, TVGuide, brand, and functionality presence across multiple platforms. He advocates for the concept of ongoing conversation and collaboration between the storyteller and the audience.

A proponent of "informed collaboration" between storytellers and technologists, Hurst is a member of the producing team for Tim Kring’s Conspiracy for Good,[http://www.conspiracyforgood.com Tim Kring’s Conspiracy for Good] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004232101/http://www.conspiracyforgood.com/ |date=4 October 2010 }} a fictional organization in an augmented reality drama popularizing the social benefits of storytelling by funding 50 scholarships and providing over 10,000 books for Zambian libraries through WeGiveBooks.org.

Hurst produced My Brother’s Keeper for PBS Digital Studios. The cinematic virtual reality (VR) experience premiered on HTC Viveport at Sundance 2017{{Cite web|url=https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/01/18/my-brothers-keeper/|title=World Premiere: My Brother's Keeper|date=18 January 2017|website=VIVE Blog}} and was notable for its innovation in VR. It was the first film to shoot at 120fps allowing for true slow motion in VR, and incorporated traditional cinematic techniques such as Bokeh, the combination of 360 and 180 stereoscopic in immersive storytelling and close-ups of less than 4 feet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-digital-studios-debuts-my-brothers-keeper-a-groundbreaking-360-vr-experience-of-the-civil-war-on-january-21/|title=PBS Digital Studios Debuts MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, a Groundbreaking 360° VR Experience of the Civil War on January 21 |website=PBS }}

In September 2017, StoryTech Immersive announced its partnership with RMS Titanic Inc. for a 2018 expedition to the wreck and debris site of the Titanic for the purposes of further exploration, research, and filming and capturing the wreck in virtual reality.{{Cite press release|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/06/1108171/0/en/Premier-Exhibitions-and-StoryTech-Immersive-To-Partner-on-2018-Expedition-to-RMS-TITANIC.html|title=Premier Exhibitions and StoryTech Immersive To Partner on 2018 Expedition to RMS TITANIC|first= |last= |date=6 September 2017 |website=GlobeNewswire }}

Hurst helped establish the Primetime Emmy for Interactive Television, which is how the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group provides a forum for individuals contributing to the evolution of cross-platform engagement between creators and fans. Band of Brothers (HBO) won the first Outstanding Achievement In Interactive Television Programming award in 2002. Hurst was also one of ten recognized digital media executives profiled in Emmy Magazine in 2007.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150715224250/http://www.xmedialab.com/mentor/brian-seth-hurst Brian Seth Hurst], X Media Lab, 2015

He also spearheaded the initiative that extended Primetime Emmy eligibility to original programming distributed via broadband.Barbara Serrano, [http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/15/entertainment/et-emmys15 "A new Emmy for webisodes?"], Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2020. as well as its advertising campaign "Welcoming Broadband to the World of Television" with print advertisements that used character stills from classic TV shows using laptops, which included computers, mobile phones, PDAs and similar devices.

Hurst was a two-time governor and second vice-chair of the board of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He also had three terms on the board of the Producers Guild of America and two terms as chairman and founding member of the organization’s New Media Council. Hurst was appointed global digital ambassador for the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Hurst was the recipient of an Interactive TV Today Award for "Leadership in Interactive Television" in 2006 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/BrianSethHurst/status/880602470010961920|title=Thank you! I'm just gettin' started!|author=Brian Seth Hurst |website=Twitter |date=29 June 2017}}

Hurst is the author of WHOLE, a collection of essays that analyzes how our thoughts, beliefs, and the way we feel serve to create our personal reality and our national and global realities.

He co-authored, with Olivia Newton-John, A Pig Tale, about a pig who, to his friends’ dismay, collects and saves many items that eventually turn into "the most beautiful thing".

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