Goldman, Matthew

Matthew Goldman is Senior Director Media Engineering & Architecture at Sinclair, Inc. He has been actively involved in the development of digital television systems for over 30 years. In the 1990s, he was a prominent participant in the Moving Picture Experts Group where he helped create the MPEG-2 Systems standard, the baseline transport technology used in direct broadcast satellite, digital cable, and terrestrial broadcasting. Mr. Goldman was a co-developer of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) standard. In the mid-2000s, he defined the broadcasting industry’s first compressed-domain program splicer. Four of his projects were later recognized by Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. A technical paper on high dynamic range video that he co-wrote received the Best Paper Award of the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Broadcast Engineering Conference. He is an author of the 2007 and 2017 editions of the NAB Engineering Handbook, and has been published in the IEEE Proceedings and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Motion Imaging Journal. Mr. Goldman received Bachelor (high honors) and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds six patents related to digital video transport. A SMPTE Fellow and past President of the Society, he is also a senior member of the IEEE, and an inductee of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. Mr. Goldman currently is Chairperson of the North American Broadcasters Association Technical Committee.