Digital TV Transition Group Experts

Peter Barnett 

Peter Barnett owns and operates a business offering consultancy specializing in transmission, reception and distribution of digital TV signals.  He has personally carried out numerous studies related to digital switch-over for the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Culture, Media and Sports, for Digital UK (responsible for coordinating digital switch-over in the UK) and for Ofcom (the UK regulator).  For over 10 years he has lectured at the University of Surrey on a Continuing Education course he organizes on digital television, and has also lectured on satellite television there and at the University of Derby.  For nearly 15 years he has been a regular participant in DVB activities, where he attends the Steering Board, the Technical Module, and is vice-chair of the Commercial Module.

Peter is a Chartered Engineer with a Bachelor's Degree from Imperial College, London, and has thirty-five years of post-graduate experience in a variety of technical and commercial roles.

Eric Moerman 

Eric Moerman has more than 8 years experience working with broadcasters and governments to engineer and implement digital terrestrial TV networks as a consultant and senior project manager with a degree in Applied Physics from the University of Delft in the Netherlands.  His experience includes the migration of a nationwide analogue media distribution network in the Netherlands, the  implementation of a fully  digital multiplexed network including operations and maintenance centres, and he was responsible  for the analogue to digital switch-over and national roll-out of the Dutch DVB-T network. Currently, Eric is acting as consultant for the design and implementation of a medium-scale DVB network in the Caribbean.

Eric’s experience extends to the mobile arena as he was responsible for the implementation of a DVB-H network in the Netherlands, and is currently a project manager of a mobile data network upgrade for a large network operator in the Netherlands.

Myra Moore 

DTC’s president, has spent more than 20 years in the digital TV market as a researcher, market analyst, and business owner. From the first implementations of the MPEG-2 video compression standard to the formation of the U.S.’s Grand Alliance, and the co-authoring of one of the first market guides to the worldwide digital terrestrial TV market (January, 2000), she has taken a front-row seat in the world’s move from analog to digital TV.

She created and contributed to DTC’s Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Quarterly Research Service that provided vital data and analysis for DtA converter box sales in the United States from 2008-2010. Myra has provided DTT transition services to telecommunications and broadcast regulators in countries such as Israel and Curacao. In addition, she has presented DTC’s findings on the digital TV market to organizations such as the DVB Forum and the MPEG Industry Forum, and is a member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. 

Anita Wallgren 

Anita Wallgren has over 25 years of experience as a business executive, government attorney, and program director.  From 2006-2010, Ms. Wallgren was the Program Director for the U.S. Government’s TV Converter Box Coupon Program, a $2 billion subsidy program that assisted almost 35 million households in making the transition from analog to digital broadcast television.  She received the Gold and Silver Medal awards for meritorious service from the Secretary of Commerce for her work on the Coupon Program. In the 1990s, Ms. Wallgren was a legal advisor to Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness.  Earlier in her career, she served as a policy advisor to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Alfred Sikes at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Throughout her career, she has advised companies and governments on a wide range of regulatory, policy, legislative, strategic and business issues, especially related to new media technologies, intellectual property, and privacy.  Ms. Wallgren was part of senior management in two technology start-up companies, Geocast Network Systems (Menlo Park, CA) and Sony Worldwide Networks (New York).  She was a business and legal executive at Great American Broadcasting (Cincinnati) and Taft Broadcasting Co. (Cincinnati).  Ms. Wallgren was elected to the Television Board of Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters and served from 1989-91.  She has held several leadership positions in the Federal Communications Bar Association and its Foundation.  She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan and is a member of the Bar in Ohio and the District of Columbia.