NBTC/ITU Seminar on Community TV Services

​Date: 13 November 2015

Location: Amari Watergate Bangkok Hotel

Registraion and more information, please contact:
Ms. Siriwan Silprakorb
Email: siriwan@itupo.org
or, digital@nbtc.go.th

​​Dr. Murray Green
Dr. Green is a Media Development Adviser and Media Lawyer, with a particular interest in the Asia Pacific. Murray is Honorary Professor in Public Diplomacy at the Soft Power Analysis and Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney and teaches communications law at the University of Technology Sydney. He has recently undertaken advisory work in media regulation for UNESCO, the UNDP, and ASEAN. Murray was formerly Director International (Radio Australia and Australia Network television) and Director Corporate Strategy at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Murray managed a community station for six years and was President of, what now is, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Murray is a graduate of the Australian Film and Television School and has a doctorate in law from the University of Melbourne. 

Merlyn Reineke
Merlyn Reineke is an Emmy Award-winning senior media executive with more than 20 years experience leading and coaching high-performing cross-functional teams, as well as extensive experience in launching and growing innovative media services. Merlyn currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Montgomery Community Media in Rockville Maryland, named in 2012 and 2013 as the best Public, Education and Government media center in the United States. From 1998 to 2008, Mr. Reineke served as Senior Director of Programming & Distribution Services at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), where he helped oversee the development and launch of public television’s digital TV services. These satellite channels serve as the backbone of PBS’s High Definition and multicast offerings for the post-analog television era. Mr. Reineke provided leadership, strategic planning and day-to-day matrix management of the PBS national satellite services team, which included PBS Technology & Operations, Brand Management & Promotions, Creative Services and Programming, maximizing workflows and creating cost efficiencies. Today, these services are carried by DirecTV, DISH Network and more than 130 PBS member stations serving tens of millions of American homes.

Prior to joining PBS, Mr. Reineke was a part of the senior management teams that launched two start-up national cable channels. In 1996, Mr. Reineke was Vice President of Programming & Studio Production for Wingspan: The Air & Space Channel, where he oversaw all network scheduling and program production as well as assisting in all national carriage deals. Prior to this, Mr. Reineke served as Director of Programming at National Empowerment Television (later America’s Voice) where he was Executive Producer of all programming and program development, with direct management of 22 producers and reporters.

Mr. Reineke’s managerial efforts were preceded by several years of frontline experience as a researcher and producer. He worked as a producer for KHJ-TV in Hollywood California, where he rejuvenated a teen issues program and turned it into a back-to-back Emmy Winner for Best Children/Youth Series in the Los Angeles market.

Mr. Reineke received his B.A. from the University of Southern California School of Journalism (Magna Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa). He has also participated in numerous executive training courses from Harvard, MIT and Stanford universities. He lives in Silver Spring Maryland.
      

Professor Hitoshi Mitomo
Hitoshi Mitomo is Professor of Telecommunications Economics and Policy at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), and the Director of the Institute for Digital Society (IDS), Waseda University, Japan. He is the President of Japan Society of Info-Communication Research since 2013, and an Executive Board member of International Telecommunications Society. He was a visiting Professor at Center for Information and Communication Research, Stockholm School of Economics in 2007. He is a council member of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and has been involved in policy-making processes related to ICT and the media.He holds a Master's degree in Environment Science and a Doctorate in Engineering. His research has covered a wide range of socio-economic and regulatory issues of ICT deployment and utilization. His current research focuses on policies for the development and utilization of ICT applications and the convergence between telecommunications and the media. He is also interested in applying behavioral economics to assessing media access behavior for post-disaster management.

Assistant Prof. Dr. Phattar Burarak

New Media Communication Department, School of Management Information Sciences, University of Phayao, Thailand

Chaiwat Chanthima
Phayao TV

           
  

Suchai Charoenmukayananta
Happiness Media Fourndation

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