Shelly Palmer

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Shelly Palmer is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry leading technology, media and entertainment consulting firm. From developing advanced television services to implementing new Internet technologies, Palmer’s pioneering efforts have made him the successful creator, producer, composer and television Renaissance man he is today.

Palmer is the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). He is the Vice-Chairman of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences and chairman of the Advanced Media Technology Emmy® Awards.

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 ESPN’s 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.

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 MediaBytes a daily business show.

Palmer is a popular speaker and moderator at technology and media conferences hosted by industry 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 the MIT Media Lab, 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.

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, a weekly columnist for the Jack Myers Report, The Huffington Post and a technology commentator for CNN.com. His 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.


Shelly Palmer Short Bio …

Shelly Palmer, Managing Director, Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC, is an award-winning inventor, technologist, composer and television producer and the host of his own daily video show. He invented Enhanced Television (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Monday Night Football), the most popular form of interactive television in the United States. Mr. Palmer is the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). He is the Vice-Chairman of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences and he oversees the Advanced Media Technology Emmy® Awards which honor outstanding achievements in the science and technology of advanced media. He is the author of one of the most popular television business news blogs, a weekly columnist for the Jack Myers Report, The Huffington Post and a technology commentator for CNN.com. His book Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV (www.televisiondisrupted.com) is available on www.amazon.com. For more information, visit www.shellypalmer.com.


Shelly Palmer Byline …

Shelly Palmer is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC and the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV (2006, Focal Press). Shelly is also the president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY, vice-chairman of The National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences and oversees the Advanced Media Technology Emmy® Awards. You can read Shelly’s blog at http://www.shellypalmer.com. He can be reached at shelly@palmer.net.


Shelly Palmer Stage Introduction …

Our speaker, Shelly Palmer is a true Renaissance man — an awarding-winning writer, director, producer and composer he is also a technologist, an inventor and a leading expert on the forces that are shaping the future of technology, media and entertainment. He is president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York — the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy Award and, he is Vice-Chairman of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences. Mr. Palmer is also the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV, the seminal book about the technological and sociological revolution that is remaking the television business. He is a technology columnist for CNN.com, Jack Myers Reports and a featured blogger on the Huffington Post. You’ve heard his theme music on shows like Live with Regis & Kelly and Spin City, seen his television productions like, HotPop and Midnight Money Madness. He is the managing director of Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC and the host of his own daily video show, please welcome, Shelly Palmer.


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