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Dick Tauber
Vice President of Transmission Systems and New Technology, CNN News Group

Dick Tauber is Vice President of Transmission Systems and New Technology for the CNN News Group. Assigned this role in March, 2004, Tauber investigates and evaluates the latest changes in video, audio and data transport that will affect the ten, full-time CNN networks. Tauber is based at the CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta and reports to Jack Womack, Senior Vice President for the CNN News Group.

Tauber has also been the CNN representative to the World Broadcasters Union-International Satellite Operations Group (WBU- ISOG) since 1985. The WBU-ISOG is an international group that meets bi-annually on a wide range of transmission issues. Tauber has worked on many WBU-ISOG matters over the years, serving as chairman of the SNG subcommittee on Pricing Methodology and Operation/Administration in 1990 and 1991 and was also co-chair of the sub-committee on Digital Compression. Since 1994 Tauber has held the Chairmanship of WBU-ISOG.

Also since 1985, Tauber has represented TBS/CNN in the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), serving as the TBS/CNN representative on the Board of Directors from 1998 thru 2003. NABA is one of eight broadcaster unions worldwide in the WBU, and CNN has played an ongoing role in NABA. Tauber was recently elected to his second two-year term as Chair of the NABA News and Operations Committee (N.O.C.).

Tauber joined the CNN Satellites & Circuits Department in October, 1981. He was promoted to Assistant Director in 1983, and in February, 1985 Tauber was promoted to Director of the department. In 1994 he became a CNN vice president.

Tauber received an Outstanding Individual Achievement Emmy award for Satellite Coordination for the Turner Broadcasting Systems GOODWILL GAMES from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1986. In 1991, Tauber received an “Industry Visionary” award from Communications Week magazine as one of the “25 Most Influential” industry leaders for the year for his role in CNN’s coverage of the first Persian Gulf War. In 1996 Tauber accepted an Industry Innovators Award from the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) for CNN’s Business Service and Development Applications in the satellite industry. In September, 2002 Tauber was honored with a second Emmy in recognition of his contribution to CNN’s reporting and coverage of the momentous events that began on September 11, 2001. He received another award in December, 2002, this honor being presented by the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA) as a Mobile Satellite Pioneer for his leadership in the use of Mobile Satellite Communications Services for the TV Broadcast Media over the past twenty years. Tauber is an industry member of MSUA, SSPI and the Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG). Prior to joining CNN, Tauber worked as dean of students and also director of development at Darrow School in New Lebanon, New York.

Tauber holds a bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He also attended and has done graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbia University in New York City.