Mike Starling is Vice President, CTO, and Executive Director of NPR Distributions’ Technology Research Center and NPR Labs – America’s only not-for-profit research and development center supporting public service technology development for broadcast radio.
Mike is a current Board Member and Vice President of the North American Broadcasters Association, where he most recently chaired the Technical Committee and Radio Subcommittee. He was a founder of the Association of Public Radio Engineers and teaches Electronic Media and Film Law and Regulation at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Starling has consulted for radio stations across the United States and Southern Africa and has been a U.S. delegate to the ITU-R conferences.
Starling is the recipient of the IAAIS’s C. Stanley Potter Award for his work on making radio reading services accessible in digital radio, has been named one of Radio Ink’s 35 “Most Admired Engineers for 2005, 2006 and 2009”, and was named Radio World’s “Engineer of the Year 2005” for his work on digital radio multicasting and one of Radio Ink’s Top Radio CTO’s for 2010. Starling also accepted a WonderVision award to NPR from Stevie Wonder for his unit’s work on making radio accessible to the print disabled.
