ATSC Names LIN's Jenkins To Board

By
( )
published

The Advanced Television Systems Committee has named Brett Jenkins of LIN Media to its board of directors.

He is replacing Jim Kutzner of PBS, who is retiring.

Jenkins oversees engineering and IT for the company. He is the former VP of technology for Ion Media Networks, which has been a leader in creating a mobile DTV standard, and before that was with Thales Broadcast & Multimedia and Thomson. 

ATSC is the committee that produces voluntary digital TV standards.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.