At first glance, one may per­ceive Hank Williams to be or­di­nary and stan­dard, with his usu­al soft shirt, trousers and the spec­ta­cles that he can’t seem to do with­out. How­ev­er, be­hind those “Clark Kent” glass­es, is a man who pos­sess­es un­de­ni­able strength and for­ti­tude, hav­ing worked in the me­dia in­dus­try for over 33 years. For the last 18 of those years, he helped nur­ture CNC3 from its ba­by stage in­to adult­hood.

Williams, who now holds the ti­tle of Head of the Cre­ative De­sign De­part­ment at Guardian Me­dia, sup­port­ed CNC3 through­out its growth tran­si­tion and over­came chal­lenges that oth­ers may have run away from.

In the start-up of CNC3, Hank played an im­por­tant role in struc­tur­ing the sta­tion’s broad­cast equip­ment. He used his skills and ex­pe­ri­ence as both Sys­tems An­a­lyst and Broad­cast Sys­tems An­a­lyst to as­sist the En­gi­neer­ing team in the con­fig­u­ra­tion of key broad­cast equip­ment and edit­ing bays to com­mu­ni­cate and func­tion seam­less­ly. What seemed like a mir­a­cle task was very doable for Hank…he de­vised strate­gies and ‘out of the box’ think­ing that al­lowed him and his team to al­ways de­liv­er max­i­mum val­ue. Hank’s open lead­er­ship style and strong project man­age­ment skills, to­geth­er with an ex­cep­tion­al sup­port team, were the main rea­sons they ex­celled in launch­ing a strong CNC3 tele­vi­sion sta­tion which has now be­come a house­hold name for news and en­ter­tain­ment.

The adage, “All work makes Jack a dull boy”, is not just a say­ing, but one that Hank re­fus­es to iden­ti­fy with. His most favourite and en­joy­able mo­ments work­ing at CNC3 were trav­el­ling the world on work-re­lat­ed projects with fel­low co-work­er and for­mer Di­rec­tor of Sport, Roger Sant. His job gave him op­por­tu­ni­ties to cov­er sto­ries like’s T&T’s So­ca War­riors in Ger­many’s World Cup in 2006, the Bei­jing Olympics 2008, Lon­don Olympics 2012, and the World Cup in Rio 2014. It should be not­ed that both Hank and Roger were pi­o­neers in re­port­ing for­eign sports. They would boast about ex­e­cut­ing each as­sign­ment with per­fec­tion by con­sis­tent­ly out­pac­ing the com­pe­ti­tion and first-to-mar­ket with spon­sored dai­ly sports re­ports for CNC3 7PM NEWS.

Hank grew up in the me­dia in­dus­try and ex­pe­ri­enced ag­gres­sive com­pe­ti­tion. How­ev­er, this nev­er de­terred or dis­tract­ed from the fo­cus on the com­pa­ny’s goal to es­tab­lish CNC3 as the lead­ing tele­vi­sion sta­tion in T&T.

Ac­cord­ing to him, “What sep­a­rates us from the rest of tele­vi­sion net­works in this coun­try is the strength of a di­verse, mul­ti-tal­ent­ed, and ex­pe­ri­enced team in our com­pa­ny.”

Hank Williams is con­sid­ered a vet­er­an and men­tor to CNC3.

In the words of Hank Williams, “Hap­py 18th An­niver­sary to CNC3, here’s to look­ing for­ward to an­oth­er 118 years!”