The CPG team represents decades of experience in new media development and production, international content development, distribution, and licensing. Our work encompasses conceiving, producing and delivering feature films, advertising campaigns for media from Outdoor to radio and TV and the internet, television programming, documentaries, and corporate films.

Alan Ett is currently President/CEO of the Alan Ett Creative Group, founded in 1991.The companies comprising AECG are: Alan Ett Music Group, a full service music production company offering creative music services, including composition, music supervision, and music editing, to the entire production community; Media City Sound, one of the fastest growing audio post production facilities in Los Angeles; Opus 1 Production Music Library, distributing its own products internationally and the exclusive US distributor for fourteen of the premier European music library labels; and Creative Production Group, the media production company.

From 1976-1978 Alan was on the faculty of The Berklee School of Music in Boston, Mass. where, among other faculty duties, he was co-founder of what has emerged as the internationally significant Berklee jazz Choir and vocal program. At the same time he received the MM in Composition from The New England Conservatory. In 1979, Alan went to Europe to perform a three week international Jazz concert tour that resulted in a stay of four years and encompassed 12 countries and teaching assignments throughout Western Europe.

Upon his arrival in Los Angeles in 1984, he became involved in the computer industry working with a development group to devise the first shock mounted 20MB hard disc, the A-O 20. He continued in the hardware and software development arena working on the original version of the production budgeting program "Movie Magic" and consulting with Roland corporation in the development of the first MIDI software, the MPS or Music Processing System.

Mr. Ett then became focused on producing music for the television industry when he received his first assignments composing and producing music for Columbia Pictures Television sitcoms "Who's the Boss", "227" and "Married…with Children". Since then he has created musical scores for thousands of hours of television, videos, film, commercials, CD Roms and DVD’s.

He is currently President and CEO of Alan Ett Creative Group, a community of companies which has been focused on the establishment of strong relationships in the ever expanding community of media developers, users ands disseminators as a provider of a wide range of services and product. Alan is on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Artists House Music, Board of Trustees of the IDA, Board of Trustees of the Society of Singers, the Board of Trustees of the New England Conservatory, a member of BMI, a member of ATAS, and a member of NARAS.

In 2007 the first annual ida/Alan Ett Music Documentary Award was presented by Joni Mitchell for a documentary film in the category of music.

Mr. Ett completed his BA in psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; undergraduate studies in music at University of Miami, Fla. and the Masters of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass. He has been on the faculty of many different institutions teaching on every grade level from kindergarten through graduate school

Robert A. Papazian is an award winning television and movie producer. He most recently was an owner and CEO of The Sunset Gower Studios, the original home of Columbia Studios founded by the legendary Harry Cohen in 1920, which was sold in August 2007

Papazian began his illustrious career at ABC Circle Films. There, as production executive in the late 1960s, he was instrumental in crafting the popular concept of long form movies for television (the ABC Movie of the Week). He went on to become, with the production of over 50 television movies, the single most prolific producer of this new format in Hollywood.

In the early 1970s with the feature production of "Coffy", Papazian pioneered a genre of unique theatrical movies. This film, which catapulted Pam Grier to stardom as an African American woman vigilante, was notable in its depiction of a strong female lead (a capable nurse), and its then-unfashionable anti-drug message. Made for $500,000, its domestic box office gross was in excess of $25,000,000, which would translate into over $100,000,000 in today's current theatrical market.

In 1983, he made television history with the production of the phenomenally successful movie "The Day After". This chilling imagining of a world after a nuclear holocaust was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine that year.

In 1988, he won an Emmy for his television production of "Inherit the Wind". Adapted from the Broadway play, the famous courtroom drama was the fictionalized account of 1925 Scopes Trial (the so-called "Monkey" Trial) that resulted in John T. Scopes' conviction for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class. Jason Robards as the character Henry Drummond also received a best actor Emmy for his performance.

In 1985, his production of "The Rape of Richard Beck", a groundbreaking Movie of the Week, garnered a best actor Emmy for Richard Crenna as the title character who plays a cynical police officer raped by gang members.

In 1989, he and partner James Hirsch (the renown writer-producer of television movies and series including "The Incredible Hulk"), formed Papazian-Hirsch Productions where, in joint venture collaborations with MCA (parent of Universal Studios) and French pay television giant Canal+, they produced over twenty movies for television.

In 1997, he and Hirsch founded RayArt Studios. With the construction of the newest sound stages in Hollywood, this state-of-the-art complex became the home to features and television series for Fox, Paramount, Universal and Disney.

Throughout their long association, Papazian and Hirsch also produced a number of notable series for network television. For CBS, they were the Executive Producers of the long running San Francisco based detective series "Nash Bridges" starring Don Johnson and Cheech Marin. And for HBO, they created and produced their most recent series "Rome" which chronicled the epic times that saw the fall of a Republic and the creation of an empire.

Papazian sold RayArt Studios in 2004 and went on to be a partner in the purchase of the Sunset Gower Studios (http://www.sunsetgower.com) with the private equity firm GI Partners (http://www.gipartners.com). As the original home of Columbia Studios, the landmark movies produced on the lot have included "From Here to Eternity" with Burt Lancaster, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" with Gary Cooper, and "On The Waterfront" with Marlon Brando.

Purchased in 2004 for $110,000,000, Sunset Gower Studios with twelve large sound stages is one of Hollywood’s largest independent studios, providing facilities and services for television productions, commercials, feature films, and music videos. Currently, the Studio is home to "Heroes", the wildly successful television series on ABC, "Dexter", a quirky drama about a Miami policeman by day and a serial killer by night on Showtime, and "October Road" a new series for Touchstone Television.

Under Papazian’s direction and supervision, construction has commenced at the Studio on an office and editorial complex for Technicolor, the premiere film processing and digital postproduction company in the film and television Industry. The six-story, 115,000 square foot facility is scheduled for completion in December 2007. In July 2007, Papazian negotiated the sale of the Sunset Gower Studios for $230,000,000. The sale of this annually profitable enterprise represents a remarkable return on the investment for its partners in less than three years.

Papazian has now embarked on a project that will capitalize upon his years of experience in production and studio management. He has formed Papazian Partners, a powerful combination of Hollywood veterans. These producers, writers, and executives are pros in their respective disciplines of creating movies for theatrical, television, cable, pay cable, and DVD premieres.

Most recently, Papazian has been nominated for an honorary PHD in Theater Arts and Communications from Arizona State University. He and Sandy, his wife of 35 years have four children and reside in Los Angeles.

Joe West is Executive Producer for programming and commercial production at CPG. With a 30-year background in broadcast production, his experience includes television program development and production, radio and television commercial production, and production of corporate communications.

Joe has worked as a consultant and producer to advertising agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, DDB/Needham, Young & Rubicam, Tracy-Locke, Foote Cone & Belding, and Chiat-Day. He has also produced commercials, corporate communications and sales and marketing films for companies such as Del Monte, Hewlett-Packard, Dole Foods, Charles Schwab & Co., Franklin Templeton, Levi Strauss & Co., Macy’s, Addison-Wesley Publishing, and others.

Peter has been a leader in the area of branded entertainment for over 10 years starting with the acclaimed series on CNN "Business Unusual", that was supported by Peter's client Arthur Andersen and had a five-year run. He, in partnership with JWT and Paul Reiser, created and produced 85 episodes of the hit award-winning microseries lovebites on TBS. lovebites is currently in production for a second season of 65 episodes.

20 tears ago, Peter created a show called Opportunity Knocks and this fall it will come to ABC Television on Tuesday nights at 8PM. Produced by Katalyst Films (Ashton Kucher and Jason Goldberg) Opportunity Knocks will allow contestants to win huge sums of money without leaving their home.

Peter previously spent ten years as a partner at Bert Berdis & Company, the world's largest radio commercial production company — whose work for numerous brands, including Nike, Pepsi, FedEx, Gillette, American Express, Wendy's, McDonald's, and Sony — earned BB&C and Peter over 200 major advertising awards. He segued to BB&C after working as an executive producer for directors John Evans, Jerry Bean, and Dan Wolfe, shooting over 100 spots for clients like Denny’s, Sears, Albertson’s, Fox Broadcasting, and ABC.

Peter was also the founder of Radio...with Pictures, a Los Angeles television and branding production company. Among numerous series and primetime specials, the company produced two Emmy-nominated archaeological specials, Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt and Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live, which aired live on Fox. He also produced 65 episodes of the game show Taboo, for Spike TV, World Beer Games for FX, and, more recently, The Manual, a half-hour, magazine-format series for Fine Living Network. During this time, he also served as executive producer of the feature film Keys to Tulsa, starring James Spader.

Peter is also a former actor who appeared on over 250 television shows as C.P.O. Sharkey starring Don Rickles, The Love Boat, Three’s Company, Fantasy Island, Hogan Family and Magnum, P.I., and in such feature films as Grand Theft Auto and Under the Rainbow.

Scott was born in Detroit, MI and raised in San Marino, CA. where he studied classical and popular music. He spent four years at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In 1968, Scott joined the popular San Francisco group, The Stuart Little Band which became the opening act in concerts, clubs and TV appearances with: Chicago, Santana, David Bowie, Billy Paul, Bob Marley, The Jefferson Airplane, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McRae, Stan Getz, Charles Lloyd, Cold Blood, Van Morrison, Sopwith Camel, Buddy Rich, Bo Diddley, Al Jarreau, It’s A Beautiful Day, Elvin Bishop, The Grateful Dead, The Tubes, Taj Mahal, Loggins & Messina, Boz Scaggs, and other groups in the San Francisco music scene.

In 1973, Scott moved to Lake Tahoe as a staff musician for the casino orchestras at Harrah’s Tahoe, Sahara Tahoe and Harrah’s Reno. He performed with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Robert Goulet, The Carpenters, Mitzi Gaynor, Shirley McClaine, The Smothers Bros., Don Rickles, Charlie Rich, The Righteous Bros. etc. He formed his own live-stage production company in Lake Tahoe and began writing & producing live stage shows in Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, Dallas and Los Angeles. In 1979, he returned to Hollywood as a composer/producer. He was awarded the ASCAP/Jerry Fielding Scholarship for two consecutive years through the UCLA Film Scoring Program.

In 1987, in Hollywood he started working with Alan Ett and in 1991 became co-founder of the Alan Ett Music Group. In 1996, Scott was awarded an Emmy for his work with Robert Goulet on ESPN’s NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship campaign. Scott is a member of BMI, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and The Society of Composers & Lyricists.

Scott's awards include: Emmy, Belding, National Silver Microphone Awards, National Telly Awards.