Fred Engel

Posted on January 14, 2022 in

Fred Engel, CPBE, ATSC3, is a widely respected leader in the broadcast media industry. He has been recognized for work in developing creative broadcast applications for ATSC 3.0/NEXTGEN TV. This includes Public Safety Communications efforts that won the 2017 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Pilot Innovation Grant Competition, best television paper at the 2022 NAB BEIT conference, Best Paper at the 2022 IEEE BTS BMSB Conference, and the NAB 2023 Technology Innovation Award. In 2020 Fred was elected to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Board of Directors and was recently re-elected for a second term.

He has held senior technology leadership roles at WTTW/Chicago (28 years), a Systems Integration firm in Chicago (3 years), Kentucky Educational Television (6 years), and PBS North Carolina (8 years. He retired from PBS North Carolina in August of 2024 and began his consulting business, Fred Engel Technology Consulting, LLC.

He has been a speaker at the PBS TechCon, PBS Annual Meetings, America’s Public Television Stations Summit, NAB conventions and many public safety communication conferences. He was the Raleigh/Durham SBE Chapter 93 chair and holds CPBE and ATSC3 Specialist certifications. He had a six-year tenure on PBS ETAC and has been an active participant with AWARN and NVISA. He was television chair of the North Carolina State Emergency Coordination Committee. In 2023 he became the PBS Station Representative on the NABs Television Engineering Committee and served on the FCC/NAB “Future of Television” Initiative.

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