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NAME: Mr Bev MARKS – consulting broadcast engineer

ADDRESS: BATTLE East Sussex TN33 0LD England

Bev Marks trained at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and qualified as a communications and broadcast engineer in 1968. He pursued a varied career with the BBC, in both radio and television engineering, specialising in news and networks areas. He was Project Manager of the multi-disciplinary Radio Data System (RDS) implementation team and the BBC Travel Information systems team that installed the first computer-based BBC Travel studios, using a small BASYS system.

Bev Marks has worked as a long term contract consultant for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1995 and became the EBU broadcast systems expert, for the EPISODE Project, funded by the EC, between 1996 and 1999. He specialised in the broadcast issues of RDS-Traffic Message Channel standardisation and still represents the sector in CEN TC 278 WG 4.

From April 1997 to July 1998, he was Project Manager for the HuMIDAB Project, studying the Human Machine Interface issues of DAB receivers, for European Commission DG X.

He is now deployed in a number of EBU roles. He is Chairman (Project Manager) of the EBU Transport Protocol Experts Group (and runs the Secretariat). This group is actively developing the bearer independent TPEG technology protocols in collaboration with CEN/ISO to provide a suite of broadcast and content provider intercommunication "Traffic Travel Information (TTI) data applications" for the short to medium term implementation.

He works in the EBU multidisciplinary TTI Broadcast Strategy Team advising on technology strategy issues, covering the full range of broadcast delivery technologies, including FM radio, Digital radio, Television, Teletext and Internet. He also maintains a 'technology watch' on the whole range of new delivery methods for TTI services.

He advises many organisations implementing TTI systems using broadcast technology, including: both public and commercial broadcast organisations (eg BBC, GWR group, Classic FM), the RDS Forum, various service providers (eg ITIS, TrafficLink) various consultancies (eg FaberMaunsell Ltd), the TMC Forum, the WorldDAB Forum, the UK Transport Research Laboratory and the UK Department of Environment, Transport and Regions.

Bev Marks has published many papers over the years in his area of specialisation. He has co-authored several specialised articles published in the EBU Technical Review and specialist EBU publications, including the highly acclaimed English and French language versioned booklet: 'RDS-TMC – What is it all about?' He has contributed to the Audio Engineer's Reference Book, published 1994 and updated Second Edition 1999.

He co-authored the successful definitive book: 'RDS: the Radio Data System', (ISBN 0-890006-744-9), published by Artech House in their Mobile Communications Series in November 1998.