Grad Seminar - April 24, 2009
"Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting" with Robert K. Graves, Chairman of the ATSC Forum
"Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting"
3:05 - 4:00pm, Warnock Eng Bldg Rm 105
The presentation will cover the development and deployment of DTV broadcasting, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards, HDTV, the flexibility of digital television technology, and the ability to make much more efficient use of the spectrum formerly devoted to analog TV broadcasting.
Robert K. Graves
Robert Graves serves as Chairman of the ATSC Forum, a group of companies and associations working to educate governments, broadcasters, manufacturers and others around the world regarding the benefits of digital television (DTV) and the ATSC family of DTV standards. Prior to the formation of the ATSC Forum in 2002, Mr. Graves served for six years as Chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), a group of approximately 185 international corporations, associations and research and educational institutions developing standards for digital television.
Mr. Graves has been heavily involved since 1991 in efforts to establish an international standard for digital television transmission, resulting in the adoption of the ATSC DTV Standard by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1996. The ATSC Standard has also been formally adopted by Canada, Mexico, Honduras and South Korea, and is being actively considered by many other countries. Along with other leaders of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, in 1997 Mr. Graves received an Emmy Award for contributions to the development of high-definition television. Mr. Graves also served as a member of the FCC’s blue-ribbon Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service and is an inaugural member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers.
A 22-year veteran of AT&T, Mr. Graves served as Government Affairs Vice President-Technology and Infrastructure for eight years prior to forming his own consulting firm in 1995. Mr. Graves holds Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Utah and Stanford University, and an MBA with distinction from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.