Wayne Luplow

Posted on January 14, 2022 in

Wayne Luplow has been a member of the ATSC Board of Directors since 1988, representing either Zenith Electronics, LG Electronics or the IEEE Consumer Technology Society. He served as ATSC Board-Chair in 2010.

Recognized worldwide as long-time digital television industry pioneer and leader, Luplow was Zenith’s representative for the “Digital HDTV Grand Alliance” and the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Services (ACATS), which selected Zenith’s technology as the ATSC DTV (aka ATSC 1.0) transmission system – the ubiquitous broadcast television standard in the United States and other countries.  Luplow, who retired in 2018, led the LG/Zenith efforts to develop the technology used in the standardization of what is now known as NEXTGEN TELEVISION (aka ATSC 3.0). An IEEE Life-Fellow, Luplow served as editor of the IEEE’s Transactions on Consumer Electronics for 35 years.  He has contributed articles to numerous IEEE and other industry publications. Luplow is a 2006 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award, for “contributions to the development of the vestigial sideband (VSB) digital transmission system for digital television broadcasting.”

Wayne, beginning in 2011, has served four, 3-year terms as a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society’s Administrative Committee (AdCom), currently serves as chair of the Society’s Fellow Evaluation Committee, and is the AdCom’s representative to the IEEE Committee on Communications Policy. He is a decades-long member of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society’s Board of Governors. He has served on the Fellows Evaluation committees of both the BT and CT societies.

He chaired the Consumer Technology Association’s Video Systems Standards Development Organization (R4) from 1998 thru 2017. With degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin (BSEE, 1962) and Pennsylvania (MSE, 1964), Luplow was employed by RCA for two years prior to working in numerous technical and management positions, including VP of Television Engineering and VP of R&D, at Zenith Electronics for 53 years. Wayne resides with his wife Judy in Libertyville, IL.  They have four adult children and nine grandchildren.

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