Sirius Bulking Up Receiver Team

Sirius Satellite Radio has named former Sarnoff Corporation executive Terry Smith as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Smith will be responsible for building up the receiver engineering team.
Smith spent the past decade working as Sarnoff’s Director, DTV Professional Systems, where he oversaw the development of digital television systems. During his 22 years at Sarnoff (formerly RCA Research Labs), he led the technical teams responsible for the development and implementation of satellite television for DirecTV, HDTV and a real-time MPEG2 Video Encoder, now widely used throughout broadcast and cable television, as well as DVD players.
Smith reports to Michael Ledford, Senior Vice President, Engineering.