WASHINGTON, D.C. July 1, 2025 — ATSC, the Broadcast Requirements Affiliation, has named broadcast engineering and requirements veteran Luiz Fausto as Vice President of Requirements Growth. He’ll succeed longtime ATSC Vice President Jerry Whitaker, who’s retiring on the finish of August. ATSC President Madeleine Noland welcomed Fausto to ATSC and thanked Whitaker for his many years of service.
Fausto joins ATSC from the Globo TV Community in Brazil, the place he held varied engineering positions since 2006, most not too long ago serving as Know-how Regulatory Specialist. At ATSC, he’ll oversee requirements improvement processes, information trade adoption and foster relationships with international stakeholders to assist make sure that ATSC stays on the forefront of next-generation broadcast know-how.
Extremely regarded for his collaborative work in next-generation broadcasting, Fausto has greater than 25 years of expertise in media know-how, together with over a decade targeted on digital requirements improvement and worldwide technical collaboration. “Luiz Fausto brings to ATSC deep technical experience, strategic imaginative and prescient, and management within the worldwide broadcasting and requirements communities,” mentioned Noland.
In his new position at ATSC, Fausto will lead the e affiliation’s technical and strategic eWorts in evolving and deploying ATSC requirements internationally. He’ll develop and oversee processes for harmonizing requirements amongst international locations adopting ATSC and take part in ATSC’s general strategic improvement with a concentrate on the technical roadmap.
He’ll work with ATSC Know-how, Specialist and Advert Hoc Teams and likewise handle ATSC’s participation in worldwide organizations such because the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), India’s Telecommunications Requirements Growth Society (TSDSI), and the Group of American States’ InterAmerican Telecommunication Fee (CITEL).
“My strategic imaginative and prescient for ATSC requirements improvement is to construct on its energy as a complete, versatile toolbox. I imagine ATSC requirements ought to evolve inside a unified framework that empowers broadcasters worldwide making it straightforward to combine, match and lengthen standardized applied sciences,” mentioned Fausto.
“By fostering sturdy worldwide relationships, staying forward of broadcast know-how tendencies and guaranteeing that the requirements stay responsive and related, I goal to assist ATSC additional improve the adoption our requirements within the Americas and worldwide,” he added.
Fausto holds a Grasp’s Diploma in Utilized Computing and Grasp’s of Enterprise Administration Diploma in Info Know-how, in addition to intensive training in networks, video-over-internet protocol and electrical engineering. He not too long ago concluded his tenure as Technical Module Chairman of the Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital (SBTVD) Discussion board by delivering the TV 3.0 (DTV+) Mission know-how choice suggestion, supporting check reviews and draft technical requirements to the Brazilian Ministry of Communications.
Whitaker joined ATSC in 1990. He’s a Fellow the Society of Broadcast Engineers and a Fellow of the Society of Movement Image and Tv Engineers. He has additionally served as a board member and vp of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He’s the creator and/or editor of greater than 30 books on technical matters.
“Jerry Whitaker’s unbelievable profession over the previous 25 years has spanned the ATSC 1.0, 2.0 and three.0 requirements, the launch of HDTV, the U.S. digital transition, the pioneering improvement of next-generation requirements and ATSC’s worldwide growth,” Noland mentioned. “ATSC stakeholders world wide be part of me in thanking Jerry for his important contributions, and we want him all one of the best for this subsequent chapter.”
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About ATSC: ATSC, the Broadcast Requirements Affiliation, is a global, non-profit group creating voluntary requirements and advisable practices for digital terrestrial broadcasting. Serving as a vital power within the broadcasting trade, ATSC guides the seamless integration of broadcast and telecom requirements to drive the trade ahead. At the moment, the ATSC 3.0 Commonplace is offering the very best resolution for increasing the potential of the printed spectrum past its conventional utility to fulfill altering wants. From typical tv to modern digital knowledge providers, ATSC has one clear purpose: to empower the broadcasting ecosystem like by no means earlier than. For extra info, go to www.atsc.org.
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