Cultivating the Wasteland with Technology

Richard R. Green joined PBS in October 1984 as senior vice-president of broadcast operations and engineering, where he oversees the PBS broadcast operations and engineering departments, which manage PBS's Technical Center and the PBS satellite interconnection system. Green also supervises the development of PBS technical policies, provision of technical support services to member stations, and research into the use of new technologies for public television. Before joining PBS, Green took a special assignment to establish the Advanced Television Systems Committee, an industry-supported organization founded to develop voluntary national technical standards for advanced television systems. Before that, he was director of the CBS Advanced Television Technology Laboratory, in Stamford, Conn., from 1980 to 1983. Most recently, Green was manager of ABC's Video Tape Post Production Department in Hollywood, Calif.; and from 1972 to 1977, he did basic research in laser technology for the Hughes Aircraft Co. in Los Angeles. Green holds a B.S. degree from Colorado College, an M.S. in physics from the State University of N.Y. at Albany (1964), and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington (1968). A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Green is the author of more than 35 technical papers on topics ranging from TV production to electro-optical and laser research.