History

Fremont Studios
a subsidiary of Jonas Jensen EFP, Inc. 1981

Scott Jonas and his then business partner Michael Jensen founded the company in 1981, dba Jonas Jensen Electronic Field Production, Inc. The first portable electronic camera services company in the country. Primarily supplying cutting edge camera and specialty camera movement technology, studios, and lighting services to national television, global film and special event production companies throughout the United States and Canada from Seattle.

Scott Jonas

In the beginning (sorta)...Prior to starting the company.

Scott Jonas, during his 1970 junior year of High School in Puyallup WA., he was encouraged by several of his teachers to enroll at Bates Technical Collage in Tacoma specializing in broadcasting and photography, so he did. Upon graduating from High School and the following year Bates Collage, Scott immediately started his career at KOMO TV in Seattle as a studio camera operator, lighting technician and sound engineer. After about a year or so, discovering and meeting several industry leading engineers, he left Fisher Broadcasting KOMO TV, to KING Broadcasting Company's, Northwest Mobile Television. This was a new spin-off company for KING Broadcasting. The company was developed by pioneering television facilities to cover the hydroplane races on Lake Washington. This was the first of its kind, suppling mobile television facilities, primarily to the networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, specializing in sports, throughout the country. Originally conceived by Stan Carlson, Engineered by Lynn Kurth, Nationally developed by Bill Lacy followed by Tim Abhold. Northwest Mobile Television, eventually renaming itself to National Mobile Television, became the largest mobile television contractor in the world by mid 2000's then competitively absorbed by NEP.