WASHINGTON—Three industry executives have been elected to the ATSC Board of Directors: Mark Aitken, Mark Corl and Jon Fairhurst. All three will serve three-year terms set to begin in January 2021.

Aitken, vice president of Advanced Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group, was elected to the board for the first time. Corl, from Triveni Digital, and Fairhurst, from Samsung, were both re-elected.

Also joining the board as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) 2021 ATSC board representative is Dr. Yiyan Wu of the Communications Research Centre.

Craig Todd, who is set to retire from Dolby, will end his time on the board in 2020. As will Wayne Luplow, former ATSC Board chairman and a retired Zenith executive, who most recently represented IEEE on the board.

The new board members will join a group with Lynn Claudy, NAB; Jim DeChant, News-Press & Gazette Company; Richard Friedel, Fox Television Stations; Ira Goldstone, Cobalt Digital; Dr. Jong Kim, LG Electronics; Brian Markwalter, CTA; Anne Schelle, Pearl TV; Andy Scott, NCTA—The Internet and Television Association; Glenn Reitmeier, GlennReitmeierTV LLC; Dave Siegler, SMPTE; and Pete Sockett, Capitol Broadcasting.

On the agenda for the first meeting in 2021 will be the election of a new chairman, as Claudy’s time in the position will conclude in 2020.

“ATSC is fortunate to have Directors who bring a wide range of skills, backgrounds and expertise to the board,” said Madeleine Noland, ATSC president. “I feel privileged to be able to work with this outstanding group of people as we guide the organization forward in 2021, which promises to be a critical year for next-generation broadcasting in the United States and around the world.”

WASHINGTON—Advanced Television Systems Committee members have voted to re-elect two currently serving board members and two previous board members term-limited in 2018 to three-year terms beginning in January 2020, the committee announced today.

Two other directors were appointed to the board by their respective professional associations, it said.

The current board members elected to new terms are Dr. Jong Kim, senior vice president at LG Electronics and president of Zenith R&D Labs, and Pete Sockett, director of engineering and operations at Capitol Broadcasting.

The previous board members who are returning include Richard Friedel, executive vice president of operations and technology for Fox Television Stations, and Glenn Reitmeier, former NBCU senior vice president, technology standards and policy, and now president of GlennReitmeierTV LLC.

The Society of Motion Pictures & Television Engineers (SMPTE) appointed Dave Siegler, who previously represented Cox Media Group on the ATSC Board, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) named former ATSC Board Chairman Wayne Luplow to the board, ATSC said.

Current members whose terms will continue in 2020 include:

• Lynn Claudy, SVP, technology, NAB, who is ending is term as ATSC Board Chairman at year’s end;
• Mark, Corl, SVP Emergent Technology Development, Triveni Digital;
• Jim DeChant, VP of Technology, News-Press & Gazette Company;
• Jon Fairhurst, principal standards engineer, Samsung;
• Ira Goldstone, VP Next Gen Broadcast Solutions, Cobalt Digital;
• Brian Markwalter, SVP Research & Standards, CTA;
• Anne Schelle, managing director, Pearl TV;
• Andy Scott, VP of Engineering, NCTA-The Internet and Television Association;
• Craig Todd, SVP and CTO, Dolby.

Thomas Bause Mason, director of standards development, at SMPTE; Dr. Paul Hearty, owner, Technology Advisors; and Dr. Yiyan Wu, CTO, Communications Research Centre will complete their board terms at the end of 2019. A new board chairman will be elected during the board’s first meeting after the first of the year, ATSC said.

“The strategic direction and insights of our talented board members are especially important at this critical time as ATSC supports the commercialization of Next Gen Broadcasting in the U.S. and around the world,” said ATSC President Madeleine Noland. “I recognize and appreciate the board’s expertise and support for balancing progress and stability as ATSC 3.0 standards are updated and preparing for our future continues in the months and years ahead.”