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Aired from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Boston, MA and public station KCTS, Seattle, WA.
January 14, 1999
Panelists and participants (Live and Taped)
RICHARD E. WILEY, Former Chairman, Commissioner and General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. (Advanced Television Standards Committee, ATSC, which established HDTV format standards).
Richard Wiley is a senior partner at Wiley, Rein &Fielding, a Washington D.C. law firm with the largest communications practice in the United States. As a former Chairman of the FCC, he led the agency's efforts to foster increased competition and lessened regulation in the communications industry. He has received both the Electronic Industries Association Medal of Honor and an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts &Sciences in recognition of his 9 years of service as Chairman of the FCCs Advisory Committee on Digital Television.
JOEL BRINKLEY, Writer
Joel Brinkley has been a reporter, editor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times since 1983. His book Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government Into Inciting a Revolution in Television, "chronicles eight years of technological history that will culminate with the introduction of digital high-definition television into millions of American homes." NY times Book Review, Thomas P. Hughes. He worked for the Associated Press, the Richmond News Leader, and the Louisville Courier-Journal where he won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, the Pol Pot genocide, and the resulting refugee crisis. After joining the Times, he served in their Washington Bureau, Jerusalem Bureau and in New York City, where he held several reporting and editing positions, including political editor and editor in charge of the paper's coverage of the crash of TWA flight 800, and reporter/columnist covering the nation's transition to digital television. Early in 1998 he returned to the Times Washington bureau, where he currently reports on digital television and other technology issues. Over the last fifteen years, Mr. Brinkley has won more than a dozen national journalism and writing awards.
RANDALL PARIS DARK, President &CEO, HD VISION
Randall Paris Dark is the founder and creative and marketing force behind Texas-based, HD VISION. Throughout his career Mr. Dark has distinguished himself as both an artistic and technological visionary. He has over 150 High Definition productions to his credit, in a career that began ten years ago with "Chasing Rainbows," the world's first mini-series imaged in High Definition. With a $12 million budget, this 14-hour historical drama was the largest HDTV production undertaken worldwide. Mr. Dark has spoken about High Definition production at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the National Association of Broadcaster's Convention, and many other related industry events. In addition to his experience in High Definition, Randall is a theatrical director/producer and published playwright, with memberships in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and the Playwrights' Union of Canada.
JOSH BERNOFF, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Josh Bernoff is an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Bernoff's current research agenda focuses on analyzing consumer behavior and technology. He is Forrester's expert on television and on Internet access from non-computer devices like TVs and phones. He has been tracking and researching topics on High Definition television since 1996. His comments and research have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and Wired.
JOHN GREENE, Vice President, Capitol Broadcasting Co., Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
John Greene began his career as a television reporter, eventually becoming Sr. Vice President for all of Capitol's television stations. He is a past president of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters and was twice selected by his peers for View Magazine as one of the 25 leading general managers of television stations in the nation. Under John's guidance, Capitol was granted the first authorization for a commercial station to operate an experimental high definition television facility. Since July, 1996, WRAL-HD has broadcast daily programming in HDTV for public demonstrations. These have included a children's program, an outdoor concert and several sporting events. The station has also been used as a test site for a number of major television equipment manufacturers. In October 1998, WRAL-HD broadcast in high definition Senator John Glenn's historic space shuttle launch.
BOB TUR, Videographer &Founder, Los Angeles News Service (L.A.N.S), Los Angeles, California
Bob Tur is a 20-year veteran of the news business and a licensed helicopter pilot specializing in remote video coverage of news events from around the world. Video footage shot by this multiple award-winner has been used on numerous broadcast programs including Real Stories and The World's Scariest Pursuits. He is probably most famous for his footage of the O.J. Simpson "Bronco chase" which was seen live by almost 40 million people and tape of the beating of Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots. He was an early user of portable digital Betacam gear and, today, owns a portable High Definition camera. Bob is the winner of numerous awards including several News EMMYs, Associated Press National Spot News Awards, Golden Mike Awards and more than a dozen California and Nevada breaking news awards.
ALICE IKEDA, Producer, HDTV Projects, Intris/KCTS (Public Television), Seattle, Washington
Since 1996, Alice Ikeda has been a producer for the High-Definition Television Unit at Intris where she gained extensive experience dealing with the challenges of HDTV from pre-production through post-production. Her recent projects for KCTS include "Washington the Beautiful" and "Portugal: An Adventure of Discovery," an Intris program for the Lisbon World Expo '98. In 1997, Alice produced a 30 minute documentary on a Native American totem pole carver for NHK/Japan's Craftsmen of the World series, a program about life on a tugboat called Machikado (The World's Street Corners), and is currently producing another project for the crafts series, Traditional Greenland Kayak. Formerly, Alice was a segments producer/reporter for Asia Now, a weekly Asian news magazine program co-produced between KCTS, NHK/Japan and Hawaii Public Television.
CHARLES JABLONSKI, Vice President of Broadcast &Network Engineering, NBC
Charles Jablonski is responsible for network engineering, including the renovation of NBC's technical facilities at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and technology planning, international technical operations in Asia, Europe and Latin America, as well as equipment development and technical project coordination. In addition, he is the technical supervisor for NBC's coverage of the Olympics. He has been awarded three Emmys for his work on the Olympics and has managed several major technology products for the network, including converting NBC graphics to electronic systems and supervising NBC's Emmy-winning conversion to stereo. Mr. Jablonski headed engineering efforts for NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games, including the 1992 Games in Barcelona and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul Korea. He is a Fellow and Executive Vice President of the S.M.P.T.E. and Chairman of the Engineering Emmy Awards Committee. He has presented and authored over two dozen papers and presentations to various societies and organizations worldwide.
LAWRENCE THORPE, Vice President, Acquisition Systems, Business &Professional Group, Sony Electronics, Inc.
Larry Thorpe is a renowned industry expert in the field of video acquisition. He has business responsibility for all of the broadcast studio and portable cameras - including HDTV - for Sony's Business &Professional Group. He has been one of the leaders in HDTV market development, publishing many papers on cameras &HDTV and representing Sony on advisory committees and working groups for ATSC, SMPTE, and the FCC for HDTV standards development. From 1966 to 1982, Larry worked for the RCA Broadcast Division where he developed a range of color cameras and telecine products. He is a winner of the David Sarnoff Award and holds 10 patents in the broadcast development field.
Program Host
Frank R. King, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Sponsors
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Boston, MA
Panasonic Broadcast & Digital Systems, Knoxville, TN
Sony Electronics, Corp., Park Ridge, NJ
Tektronix, Inc., Irvine, CA and
The Tape House, New York, NY.
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