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Steven Venezia is manager of digital television broadcasting for Dolby Laboratories’ Burbank office. Upon joining Dolby in 1995, he worked intensively on the adoption and launch of digital television and HDTV. Venezia’s involvement in television sound extends across broadcast, cable and satellite networks postproduction and industry standards organizations. He works with both the creative and engineering communities, who produce and distribute multichannel audio for episodic, sports and special event programming. Venezia began his career in audio in 1976, and worked with a variety of musical artists, including Frank Zappa, Dire Straits, INXS and Tom Waits. He has traveled extensively throughout the Americas, Asia and the South Pacific with the Advanced Television Systems Committee, presenting on audio standards for DTV, and twice presented at the National Association of Broadcasters conventions on the subjects of multichannel audio for live broadcasts and the problems of broadcast loudness inconsistencies.
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Michael Olman, C.A.S., has been involved in sound recording for more than two decades. Starting with his early involvement in music recording in Detroit, Olman has worked in almost every role in sound for television — from sound and video transfer to his current position as Supervising Re-recording Mixer at NBC Universal Studios. In addition to his service as Governor, Michael is also a member of the Awards Anomalies Committee, Membership Committee, Technology and Convergence Committee and is an elected member of the Budget Review Committee. Outside of the Television Academy, Olman has also donated time as a guest lecturer at UCLA, panelist at industry conferences and conventions, jurist for film festivals and is a former member of the Cinema Audio Society’s Board of Directors. The recipient of nine Primetime Emmy nominations and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing, Olman has also been nominated for several M.P.S.E. Golden Reel Awards and MIX Magazine TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Awards. In addition, he has received 11 nominations for “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing” from the Cinema Audio Society, including two wins for his work on 24 and When Dinosaurs Roamed America.
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