Surviving in Broadcasting's Standards “Ménage à Trois”

Bob Paulson is an internationally known consultant, writer and executive whose television industry career began in 1950 as Bob Banner's Assistant Director on the CBS Sunday night Fred Waring Televison Show when 11 affiliate stations were interconnected live from New York via “15 Van,” and the rest were supplied by deliveries of television's first recording medium, kinescope film. During a decade of employment at Ampex beginning in 1952, he was a participant in many audio and video recording product technical breakthroughs — multichannel audio master recording, broadcast-quality consumer stereo audiotape systems, the VR-1000 quadruplex monochrome VTR first-generation video editing equipment and color video recording accessories. In the 1960s and early 1970s at Precision Instrument Company and Microtime Inc., Paulson participated in the design and start-up marketing of the 1-inch helical scan VTR and stand-alone analog and digital TBCs. He founded AVP Communication in 1974 to provide a broad range of consulting services to television industry manufacturers and end users. During this period, and now as an Artel Communications executive, he has been involved with recording and transmission standards development in his client assignments, as a member of many SMPTE technical committees, and as a prolific writer and speaker. Paulson's unstinting services to SMPTE since 1955 won him the 1988 Outstanding Service to the Society Award. He is a Life Member of the IEEE, a Life Fellow of the AFCEA, and an SBE Certified Senior Engineer. He has been listed in “Who's Who in Finance and Industry” since the late 1970s. He holds an A.B. in Communications Arts and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College and its associated Thayer School of Engineering.