Lung, H. Douglas

Lung, H. Douglas

Vice President, Broadcast Technology at NBCUniversal Local

Lung is one of the country’s foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology.  He began his work in TV broadcast engineering in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles. Today, Lung leads NBC and Telemundo owned stations’ RF and transmission, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings.    
  
While Vice President of Engineering at KSCI, Lung took time off to help put Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, KSHO-TV, on the air in 1982. In 1985, he left KSCI to join the founders of what later became the Telemundo network and station group, to head up the engineering department, design the new facilities and direct their installation at KVEA in Los Angeles. In the following years, he guided the construction and rebuilding of new TV and LPTV stations for Telemundo and assisted in the design and construction of Telemundo’s first network facility in Hialeah, Florida. 
  
In 1994, he was part of the engineering team that supported the launch of the Telemundo owned stations digital-only network satellite distribution, the first in the country for both broadcast and cable. In addition, he oversaw the engineering management, system design, and FCC licensing for the stations’ DTV transition and maximizing coverage of NBC and Telemundo stations after analog shutdown.  
  
He also participated in the roll-out and testing of ATSC-MH (the ATSC mobile-handheld standard) at NBC and Telemundo owned stations and with Fox engineers at the Fox laboratory in Los Angeles.  
  
In 2015, in cooperation with the MTVA and broadcasters in New York City, Lung designed a system for comparing VHF and UHF coverage between transmitters at the Empire State Building and at One World Trade Center. The system allowed rapid measurements from four antennas at 258 different locations receiving transmissions from two test transmitters and ten TV broadcast stations. Lung’s propagation studies and maps comparing coverage from transmission systems designs at both buildings helped broadcasters decide which site to use.  
  
During the Incentive Auction TV spectrum repack, Lung helped to coordinate testing on the new channels and scheduling for transition across markets in the northeast.  Lung’s maps and analyses, which showed the areas of interference, the amount of interference between transmissions on the new channel versus other stations operating on their pre-auction channels, allowed stations to coordinate testing and transitions with minimum impact to other stations. After the release of the FCC's TV Study software, Lung developed software that helped maximize coverage of full power stations, helped low power television stations find new channels after displacement, and helped reduce interference between stations. 
  
A three-decade long contributor to TV Technology on topics of interest to TV broadcasters, Lung is also a columnist for IEEE Broadcast Technology.   
  
Lung is a 2021 Tech Leadership Award recipient and a member of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.    

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