Full Name
Mark Aitken
Job Title
President/SVP
Company
ONE Media/Sinclair Broadcast Group
Bio

Mark Aitken has been Senior Vice President of Sinclair’s Advanced Technology Group since 2019 and holds responsibility for the Company’s development and deployment of NextGen technologies such as ATSC 3.0 as well as various 5G initiatives. Mr. Aitken joined Sinclair Broadcast Group in April of 1999.

While at Sinclair, Mr. Aitken has become managing board member for Saankhya Labs (an Indian based chip designer and leader in SDR and SDN technologies), President of ONE Media (Sinclair’s Innovations subsidiary), and is actively engaged in many industry organizations. He currently serves as a member of the Board for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) as well as the Board of the Advanced Television Broadcast Alliance (ATBA).

Mr. Aitken is the author of many papers dealing with innovative RF product developments, advanced digital broadcast systems, and design-implementation strategies, and holds patents for various RF devices and Next Gen systems and componants. Mr. Aitken began his career as an engineer for COMARK, having now contributed to the broadcast industry for 48 years.
Mr. Aitken is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE), the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE).  As well, he is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) TV Technology Committee which is focused on the broader technical issues of our industry. 

He is a recipient of several prestigious industry awards including the 2008 “Broadcasting and Cable Technology Leadership Award”, 2013 recipient of the ATSC "Bernard Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award", 2018 awardee of “Future's Industry Innovator Award”, the NAB “2018 Television Engineering Achievement Award”, the 2019 ATBA Award for “Perseverance and Endurance” and the 2020 “TVOT (TV of Tomorrow) Leadership Award”.

Mark Aitken