Honoring Exemplary Leadership
The Lechner Award is bestowed to an individual representative of the membership whose technical and leadership contributions to the ATSC have been invaluable and exemplary. The title of the award recognizes the first recipient, the late Bernie Lechner, for his outstanding services to the ATSC. The award winner is selected by the Board of Directors and presented annually.
Bernie Lechner Tribute Video
Lechner’s contributions to digital television were recalled by attendees of ATSC’s May meetings in this video that preceded the announcement that Jim Kutzner is this year’s Outstanding Contributor: http://vimeo.com/94460999
Recipients of the ATSC Lechner Award are:
- 2000 – Bernard Lechner, Consultant
- 2001 – Rich Chernock, Triveni Digital
- 2002 – Regis Crinon, Microsoft
- 2003 – Glenn Adams, Extensible Formatting Systems, Inc
- 2004 – Graham Jones, National Association of Broadcasters
- 2005 – John Henderson, Hitachi
- 2006 – Art Allison, National Association of Broadcasters
- 2007 – Mark Eyer, Sony Electronics
- 2008 – Michael Dolan, TBT
- 2009 – Wayne Bretl, LG Electronics/Zenith
- 2010 – Pat Waddell, Harmonic
- 2011 – Jim Starzynski, NBC Universal
- 2012 – S. Merrill Weiss, MWG Group
- 2013 – Mark Aitken, Sinclair Broadcast Group
- 2014 – Jim Kutzner, PBS
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