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Graham Jones

Graham Jones is Director of Communications Engineering with the NAB Science and Technology department, specializing in advanced television issues and standards and promoting the interests of broadcasters in technical and regulatory matters. He chairs the Planning Committee of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) and is a member of the ATSC Technology and Standards Group. With SMPTE, he is active in several engineering committees, chairs two specialist subgroups, and has contributed to development of numerous SMPTE standards. He also chairs a subgroup of the FCC’s Technical Working Group on Digital Closed Captioning and Video Description.

He is author of A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers and associate editor of the NAB Engineering Handbook. He is a regular contributor to the NAB’s TV TechCheck newsletter and has written numerous papers and presentations for SMPTE and NAB conferences and other seminars and publications.

Graham has more than 40 years experience in the broadcast industry. He started his career with the BBC in London and since then has worked with several broadcast equipment manufacturers and as a consultant to government agencies and companies in many countries worldwide. He is a Fellow of SMPTE and serves on the SMPTE Board of Governors. He holds a BSc Honors Degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham, UK, is a Chartered Electrical Engineer (C.Eng), and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and the Royal Television Society. In 2004, he received the ATSC Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor award.

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