Palmer
is the Chairman of The Advanced Media Committee (and
1st
Vice
President of the New York Chapter) of the
National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
(NATAS)
the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy®
Awards. Palmer oversees the Advanced
Media Technology Emmy Awards, which he created
in 2003 to honor outstanding achievements in the science
and technology of the new media-side of the
business.
Along
with his contributions to the advancement of television,
Palmer is a pioneer in the field of Internet
technologies. He is the inventor of
Enhanced
Television used by programs
such as ABC’s
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and
Monday Night Football. In 2004,
ABC's
Celebrity Mole Yucatan received an Emmy®
Award in the category of Enhancement of Original Television
Content. It was Palmer who led ABC’s team of advanced
media professionals and spearheaded the award-winning
project.
Palmer
is a popular speaker and moderator at technology and media
conferences hosted by industMry organizations and top tier
colleges and universities, like: The Consumer Electronics
Show (CES), The National Association of Broadcasters
Convention (NAB), The National Show presented by the
National Cable Television Association (NCTA), Telecom
presented by the United States Telecom Association, Digital
Hollywood, iHollywood, DV Expo and ITV Europe. He is
a guest lecturer at Stern Graduate Business School at NYU,
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at
Columbia University, The Graziadio School of Business
Management at Pepperdine University, The Digital Content
Lab at the American Film Institute and other top tier
colleges and universities.
Over the
last two decades, Palmer has enjoyed a highly distinguished
career as a composer and producer. His professional
vitae includes years of experience in television production
and musical composition. He created and
produced
HotPop, a teen lifestyle
and music show airing on Starz/Encore’s WAM! As a prolific
composer, Palmer was the recipient of the American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP's)
12th
Annual
Film and Television Music Award for ABC’s hit
series
Spin City.
He was also recognized the following season in the category
of “Most
Performed Television Themes.” Palmer's music
credits include the theme songs for
Live with Regis & Kelly,
Rivera Live and
MSNBC as well as the
digital debut of the "real" cat singing the classic
“Meow,
Meow, Meow, Meow.”
Palmer
is the host of
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer a weekly business
news series which can be seen on public television and
online at www.media30.com. A
graduate of New York University’s School of the Arts, he
is the author of one of the most popular television
business news blogs, www.EmmyAdvancedMedia.com, a weekly
columnist for the Jack
Myers Report and a technology
commentator for CNN.com.
His new book
Television Disrupted: The Transition
from Network to Networked TV (www.televisiondisrupted.com)
about the technological, economic, and sociological forces
that impact the future of television, media and
entertainment is is available on www.amazon.com.
For more information, visit www.shellypalmer.com.