Paul Brenner is senior vice president and chief technology officer for Emmis Communications. His work at Emmis focuses on technology business development, industry partnerships, broadcast engineering strategy and the development of new broadcasting and Internet content distribution systems. Brenner works both within the industry and with pure-play IT development companies. His perspective gained from interaction with automakers, Internet software companies and portable device makers led him to product developments such as live traffic information through the Broadcaster Traffic Consortium and TagStation song tagging for radio broadcasters developed in partnership with Broadcast Electronics.
Brenner currently serves as president of the Broadcaster Traffic Consortium, LLC a partnership of 16 radio companies throughout the U.S. and Canada formed to distribute data via FM-RDS and HD Radio. He also served on the FCC Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) working group for EAS CAP as well as NAB’s Digital Radio Committee.
Brenner joined Emmis from IT consulting firm DataShare Corporation in 1998. He holds a Masters degree in Information Systems as well as degrees in E-Business and Electronics Engineering Technologies. HD chip developer SiPort also utilizes Paul’s industry expertise as a member of their Board of Advisors.
Glen Reitmeier is Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy & Policy for NBC Universal. He leads NBC Universal’s technical efforts on industry standards, government policy, commercial agreements, anti-piracy operations and advanced engineering.
Since joining NBC in 2002, he has been involved in the creation of NBC’s first high-definition cable channel, Universal-HD, launched DTV multicast programming and mobile broadcasting, and the distribution of NBC-U content to new digital consumer devices, including PCs, game consoles, and personal devices. Reitmeier served as Chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee from 2006-2009, which under his leadership developed the ATSC Mobile DTV standard. He is also a Board member of the North American Broadcasters Association and a contributor to the Open Mobile Video Coalition’s Technical Advisory Group, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, and the Open Authentication Technology Committee.
Prior to joining NBC Universal, Reitmeier spent 25 years in digital video research and development at Sarnoff Laboratories. He is widely recognized as a pioneering visionary, creator, and architect of digital television. Early in his career, he was instrumental in establishing the ITU 601 component digital video standard, which is currently in worldwide use as the backbone of modern television broadcasting and production facilities. During the competitive phase of HDTV standardization, Reitmeier lead the Sarnoff-Thomson-Philips-NBC development of Advanced Digital HDTV, which pioneered the use of MPEG compression, packetized transport, and multiple video formats. He was a key member of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, taking a leadership role in its formation and in all of its technical decisions, communications with government and industry, and interoperability efforts that lead to establishing the ATSC Digital Television Standard. He holds over 50 patents in digital video technology and is a graduate of Villanova University.
Reitmeier is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and is a recipient of SMPTE’s Progress Medal and the Leitch Gold Medal. He is also an inaugural member of the Consumer Electronics Association Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. He is recognized in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2010 Mr. Reitmeier received a Broadcasting & Cable Technical Leadership Award.
