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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, Michigan, Olman has worked in almost every position in sound for television—from sound and video transfer to his current role as a supervising re-recording mixer at NBC Universal Studios. Olman has been an engaged member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In addition to his current service as governor, Michael also serves as an elected member of the Budget Review Committee and a member of the Awards Anomalies Committee. Outside of his Television Academy service, Olman has also been a guest lecturer at UCLA, as well as a panelist at industry conferences and conventions, 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 awards for “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing” from the Cinema Audio Society for his work on 24 and When Dinosaurs Roamed America.
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