AES New York 2018 Presenter or Author
Skip Pizzi
Primary Affiliation: NAB - Washington DC, USA
Skip Pizzi is Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington, DC, USA. His career has spanned the radio, audio, television and digital media industries, working for 13 years in production engineering and technical training at NPR, and for 11 years in content creation, media standards development and technical policy analysis at Microsoft. He also spent 7 years as an editor at Broadcast Engineering magazine, and has been a columnist for numerous other industry publications. He has authored, co-authored or edited several books, most recently "Audio Over IP," "A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers," 4th edition, and the "NAB Engineering Handbook," 11th edition, all published by Focal Press.
Skip is a frequent speaker at media technology conferences around the world, and manages all of NAB’s technical education programs. He has also been involved with numerous media standardization efforts, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3)—which has developed the ATSC 3.0 standard—and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ultra HD Forum. He was the audio testing coordinator for ATSC 3.0, and editor of A/342, the ATSC 3.0 Audio Standard. In 2017, Skip was presented with the ATSC’s Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Fine Arts, International Economics and Electrical Engineering.
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Session List
Oct 17:
B03: Advanced Audio for Television Broadcast (Panelist)