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Dom Stasi
Chief Technology Officer
TVN Entertainment Corp.
As Chief Technology Officer, Dom heads the engineering and operations team responsible for keeping TVN’s network at the forefront of rapidly advancing television technology. TVN distributes in excess of 3000 hours of Video On Demand content to cable television systems monthly, making it the first and largest VOD network in the world. TVN manages on-demand content from virtually every cable program network in the U.S.
The design and deployment of interactive systems such as automated VOD and its ensemble of capabilities have characterized his tenure with the company. Dom’s engineering team has generated 11 US patents and pending applications since 1998.
An industry veteran and frequent speaker at industry conventions both here and abroad, Dom came to the television business from the US Space program’s Project Apollo.
His space communications experience was put to use as Director of Engineering for a pioneering satellite-borne HBO in the mid 1970s. Dom proved instrumental to deploying and testing the CATV industry’s proximate satellite ground and headend architecture, and was a contributing author to what became known as the “FCC’s HBO Decision.” That study is today recognized as the technical catalyst for satellite borne CATV.
In 1980 Dom joined MTV Networks and became that emerging network’s first VP/GM of Network Operations and Design Engineering. Applying what were at the time considered radical designs, an equally radical MTV allowed Dom to design and build the CATV industry’s first programmer-owned satellite operations center in a metropolitan area. Those early applications remain in common use today.
In 1993 he joined TCI as Vice President of Video Systems, contributing to the original design of what is today the Comcast Media Center.
A fellow of the Society of Motion Picture-Television Engineers, and board member of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, Dom holds a BSEE from the State University of New York where he also worked as an instructor. He served on the NCTA Engineering Committee for 25 years, and is a member of the Digital Cinema Technology Committee of the SMPTE.
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