2024 Recipient – Ali Dernaika

Posted on June 21, 2024 in

2024 Lechner Award honoree Ali Dernaika serves as Co-Chair of ATSC Specialist Group S43, with his work revolving around broadcast core technologies and the formulation of Broadcast Core Network standard. “Broadcast Core Network is a central technology for developing datacasting businesses. You can think of it like the ‘AirBnB’ of renting spectrum capacity. Broadcasters may […]

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2023 Recipient – Glenn Reitmeier

Posted on June 15, 2023 in

The 2023 Lechner Award recognizes decades of service by Glenn Reitmeier to ATSC and his pioneering industry contributions. In addition to serving multiple terms as ATSC Board Chairman, he has led the Planning Team on Future Broadcast Ecosystem Technologies (PT-4) from its formation until the present. PT-4 has worked to define key aspects of new-generation […]

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2022 Recipient – Youngkwon Lim

Posted on September 29, 2022 in

ATSC’s 2022 Lechner Award recipient Youngkwon Lim has led the ATSC TG3/S33 Specialist Group on Management and Protocols since it was organized in 2013. TG3/S33 is the group responsible for the most technical documents of any specialist group in TG3 – 8 Standards and 3 Recommended Practices, including A/331 “Signaling, Delivery Synchronization, and Error Protection,” […]

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2021 Recipient – Alan Stein

Posted on February 14, 2022 in

Alan Stein is Vice President of Technology, in the CTO office of InterDigital.  He holds 16 granted patents in the field of digital video and currently heads InterDigital’s Visual Standards Team, where he manages a global team of senior technology experts who participate in major video standards organizations. Stein is a long-time, active contributor to […]

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Bernard Lechner

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

Lechner was a consultant to government and industry as an expert on all aspects of television and display systems. Extensively involved in technical research on advanced television and display systems and in the development of standards for high-definition television (HDTV), Bernie was previously Staff Vice President, Advanced Video Systems, at RCA Laboratories. He held 10 […]

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Dr. Richard Chernock

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

Dr. Chernock is currently an Engineering Fellow at Triveni Digital and Product Manager for the PSIP generation products. In that position, he is developing products and technologies that provide for the management and distribution of data and metadata in digital television systems. His primary focus is on metadata technologies and stream monitoring. Previously, he was […]

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Regis Crinon

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

Regis Crinon has been involved with many aspect of our industry, holding positions at Tektronix, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Sharp Laboratories of America and now Intel. For over five years, Dr. Crinon has been an active participant in the work of ATSC. For the past three years, he served as Chairman of the T3/S13 Specialist Group […]

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Glenn Adams

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

For over four years Adams has been an active participant in the work of ATSC. Since February of 2001, he has served as Chairman of the T3/S17 Specialist Group on DTV Applications Software Environment (DASE). During that time, S17 successfully completed its work on the initial release of the DASE Standard.

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Graham Jones

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

Graham Jones is Director of Communications Engineering with the Science and Technology department at the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC., where he works on advanced television issues, technical standards, education and training. He is a member of the ATSC Technology and Standards Group, a member of the S6 Specialist group on Video and […]

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John Henderson

Posted on February 21, 2020 in

“I like to go into a store and see products on the shelves in whose design I had a part, especially if they involve new technology. I suppose that, deep down, I regard standards body work as a sometimes-necessary evil on the path to new products. That said, I have been a more-or-less cheerful and […]

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