About Brightline Lighting

Brightline Lighting makes energy-efficient lighting fixtures for  broadcast, videoconferencing, education, and government applications.

“Lighting creates an emotional attachment to a physical space.”

– Kathy Katz, Brightline Managing Partner

Communication through Clarity 

As one of the country’s premier lighting providers, Brightline’s mission is to enable communication through clarity. By providing high quality, cost effective, and environmentally responsible lighting solutions, Brightline helps customers create the most dynamic video production.

Brightline Lighting managing partners, Sam Cercone and Kathy Katz, are industry veterans with more than 50 years of combined experience in broadcast production, lighting, studio design, and manufacturing. Together with a dedicated engineering, fabrication, and sales team, Brightline Lighting produces lighting fixtures and lighting control systems that combine the latest technological advances with performance and reliability.

With its emphasis on customizable solutions, the Brightline team brings its wealth of knowledge to every customer interaction. The Brightline Difference is a company-wide, singular focus on designs tailored specifically for each customer.

First for Brightline Lighting

Through the years, Brightline Lighting’s emphasis on flexibility and responsiveness to customer needs has resulted in a long list of lighting innovations, among them:

• The first directional fluorescent videoconference lighting fixture (the patented T-Series) that articulates from a T-bar ceiling and then returns to a flush position.
• The first broadcast and videoconference lighting fixtures to automatically adjust to levels of ambient light.
• The first studio systems in which each fixture, through a digital ballast interface, can be assigned a discreet IP address and controlled remotely from a central location.
• The first T5, red/green/blue color-changing lighting systems with 120-V operation.
• The first two-wire, 55-watt, fluorescent phase-control ballast with 120-V operation.
• The first Power Over Ethernet broadcast-quality light.
• The first variable white broadcast-quality Huddle Room light.
• The first variable white broadcast-quality Remote Desktop light.