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Aug 4, 2011 11:55 AM, By Michael Grotticelli
Chuck Pagano, an operative who has led ESPN to rise a long list of technical innovations and attention firsts - from live HD and 3-D report to practical interviews and remote chief manage operations - has been declared Executive Vice President Chief Technology Officer at the all-sports network.
Pagano was hired as a technical executive in 1979 (prior to the initial telecast) and was the 25th worker to come together the network when it launched 32 years ago. He will right away "take on an stretched vital purpose that will precedence his unique multiple of experience, skill and egghead curiosity," according to George Bodenheimer, President ESPN and ABC Sports.
In his new role, Pagano will lead all of ESPN's core technical functions and operations inclusive distribution, transmission, engineering, IT, program development, technology enhancement and vital technology forecasting opposite all areas of the company. He will moreover take on a incomparable purpose in leading technology initiatives opposite ESPN and the broader Disney enterprise.
"I have seen this firm blossom and change," Pagano said, "but the a regular has always been to welcome new technology to improved offer the fans."
Among his many achievements, Pagano has stretched ESPN's pull to the West coastline when the firm non-stop its new Los Angeles Production Center (the world's initial 1080p HD facility) in April 2009. He was moreover the key motorist in the origination of ESPN's Bristol, CT-based "Digital Center." The core is deliberate a of the many technically complex radio prolongation services and was the prolongation site of the network's early HD services, ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD.
A local of Waterbury, CT, Pagano received a Bachelor of Science grade in electrical engineering in 1984 and a Master of Science grade in organizational psychology in 2007, both from the University of Hartford.
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