ETRI Engineer Wins ATSC’s Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award

Jae-Young Lee, senior research scientist at South Korea’s Electronics and Telecom Research Institute, is the 2020 winner of ATSC’s Bernard Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, said the association Wednesday. He chairs ATSC’s S32 specialist group on 3.0's physical layer and has been active in 3.0 standards-setting for seven years, it said. ATSC also awarded the Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal to the 3.0 Phoenix Model Market project and its investors ABC, Fox, NBCUniversal, Pearl TV and Univision.