Projects

Skip Pizzi’s consulting covers a wide range of work.

Ceremonial signing of Brazilian Presidential Decree enacting the TV 3.0 Standard, 27 August 2025. Courtesy of Canal Gov.
Ceremonial signing of Brazilian Presidential Decree enacting the TV 3.0 Standard, 27 August 2025. Courtesy of Canal Gov.

Consulting Highlights

Consultant/ATSC Brazil Implementation Team
As a consultant to Fraunhofer USA, led the effort for selection of ATSC 3.0 standards in the competitive international evaluation process for “TV 3.0,” Brazil’s next-generation digital television system.

Project Manager/New York Public Media ATSC 3.0 Conversion
Technical consultant to New York City’s first ATSC 3.0 “lighthouse” channel-sharing conversion, hosted by WNET/WLIR at its One World Trade Center transmission facilities.

Skip Pizzi, Technical Advisor, to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s development of its new facility in New York City.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Rose Theater seats 1,233 people. Other main halls include the Allen Room with 483 seats, and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, an intimate jazz club seating 140. Photo by David Shankbon.

Consultant/Jazz at Lincoln Center
Technical advisor to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s development of its facility in New York City.

Consultant/Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) Modernization
Associate consultant to Kearney for its consultancy to NPR on redesign of its public radio content-distribution network.

Consultant/ATSC Next Generation Broadcast Conference
Developed and managed conference program for multiple iterations of this annual event presented by ATSC, The Broadcast Standards Association.

Consultant/PMVG TechConnect
Developed and managed production of this technology conference for U.S. public media technologists presented by Public Media Venture Group.

Consultant/ATSC SET Expo Exhibition
Managed pavilion design and execution over multiple years for ATSC, The Broadcast Standards Association’s exhibit at SET Expo, Latin America’s largest media trade show in São Paulo, Brazil.

Consultant/ATSC 3.0 Audio Testing Coordinator
Managed objective and subjective immersive audio system evaluations for ATSC 3.0 Audio Standard.

The Jerome Library at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum is home to "Voices from Ellis Island: An Oral History of American Immigration." Skip Pizzi served as technical director for the museum’s original oral history project, capturing firsthand accounts from immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. In these powerful interviews, they share stories of their homelands, the reasons behind their journeys, their arrival experiences, and their transition into American life and culture.
The Jerome Library at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum is home to "Voices from Ellis Island: An Oral History of American Immigration." Skip Pizzi served as technical director for the museum’s original oral history project, capturing firsthand accounts from immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. In these powerful interviews, they share stories of their homelands, the reasons behind their journeys, their arrival experiences, and their transition into American life and culture.
Skip Pizzi with George Tselos, Supervisory Archivist, at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Technical Director/Ellis Island Memorial
Technical director of immigrant recording project for the Ellis Island Memorial’s Oral History Archive, which captured the recollections of 200 Americans who passed through the immigration process at this site. This material now is part of permanent collection at the site, managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Development of Production Facilities/Public Radio International
Lead technical consultant to Public Radio International (PRI) in the development of production facilities for its international daily news program, The World, produced jointly by PRI, WGBH and the BBC. Also served as technology advisor to PRI’s strategic planning efforts, its on-line media service (Public Interactive) and its direct broadcast satellite service.

Technical Consultant/Audible.com
Technical consultant to Audible.com on the development of its original digital content-creation and upload facilities for the initial launch of the online spoken-word service.

Speaker/UC Berkeley Future Media Seminar
Speaker at “Future Media” seminar sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and WIRED magazine, sharing panel with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab, John Markoff of the NY Times and Kevin Kelly of WIRED.

Speaker/National Endowment for the Arts
Speaker at the National Endowment for the Arts’ ART 21 Conference on Art in the 21st Century, Chicago. Invited to repeat the presentation, entitled “Making the Transition: Analog to Digital,” to the National Council for the Arts (the NEA’s advisory board) in Washington, DC, and to the South Carolina Arts Council conference in Columbia, SC.

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Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) control room testing ATSC 3.0
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) control room testing ATSC 3.0

Media Standards & Related Work

Skip Pizzi has worked with the following media standards bodies, regulatory advisory committees and peer-review organizations:

  • Advanced Authoring Format Association (AAFA)
  • ATSC, The Broadcast Standards Association
  • Audio Engineering Society (AES)
  • Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
  • Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
  • European Broadcast Union (EBU)
  • FCC Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC)
  • Multimedia Exchange Format (MXF)
  • Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
  • National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)
  • National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
  • National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC)
  • Radio DNS
  • Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)
  • Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
  • Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE)
  • TV Anytime Forum (TVAF)
  • Ultra HD Forum
  • World DAB/DMB Forum

Publications

BOOKS
MAGAZINES
ATSC Papers by Skip Pizzi
TECHNICAL PAPERS