{"id":10150,"date":"2010-04-14T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2010-05-04T04:36:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T09:36:01","slug":"john-e-d-ball-emmy-winning-t-v-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/john-e-d-ball-emmy-winning-t-v-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"John E.D. Ball Emmy-Winning T.V. Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 13, 2010<\/p>\n

John E.D. Ball Emmy-Winning T.V. Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n

John E.D. Ball, 77, founding president of the National Captioning Institute
\nand two-time national Emmy Award winner for his television engineering work,
\ndied March 25 [2010] at the Fairfax Nursing Center of complications from a
\nstroke suffered in November at his home in Vienna.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ball was a native of Scotland who came to the United States mid-career
\nin the 1960s.<\/p>\n

In 1971, he joined the Public Broadcasting Service and helped implement the
\nfirst domestic satellite distribution system. That project, completed in
\n1978, won Mr. Ball his first Emmy award for engineering.<\/p>\n

His second came two years later for his efforts to develop closed captioning
\nfor television programs. About the same time, he became president of the
\nbrand-new National Captioning Institute, a nonprofit entity that worked to
\nexpand the availability of closed captioning.<\/p>\n

During his 15 years at NCI, real-time captioning was improved and the first
\nlive news broadcasts were captioned. At the urging of NCI and others,
\nCongress passed a law in 1990 that required new televisions with screens
\nlarger than 13 inches to be equipped with closed-captioning technology.<\/p>\n

Many in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community applauded the work of NCI,
\nand Mr. Ball was awarded an honorary degree from Gallaudet University in
\nWashington. He also received a distinguished service award from the
\nAmerican-Speech-Language-Hearing Association.<\/p>\n

John Edward Dewar Ball was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a graduate of
\nGlasgow’s Royal College of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n

He served two years in the Royal Air Force as a radio signaller and 13 years
\nwith the BBC before a doctor misdiagnosed rheumatoid arthritis in Mr. Ball’s
\nwife and advised moving to a warm, dry climate.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ball promptly sought work overseas and in 1966 landed a job at the
\nComputer Science Corp. in the District. He later worked for Intelsat on a
\nglobal satellite distribution network.<\/p>\n

He was a member of many telecommunications industry groups, authored
\nnumerous papers and held multiple patents. He was a member of the Cosmos
\nClub and Vienna Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n

Survivors include his wife, the former Elizabeth Rodger of Vienna; three
\nsons, Norman Ball of Leesburg, Adrian Ball of Arlington County and Evan Ball
\nof Vienna; and a grandson.<\/p>\n

Source:
\nhttp:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.obituaries\/browse_thread\/thread\/6a0ca3272a9b9c17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 13, 2010 John E.D. Ball Emmy-Winning T.V. Engineer John E.D. Ball, 77, founding president of the National Captioning Institute and two-time national Emmy Award winner for his television engineering work, died March 25 [2010] at the Fairfax Nursing Center…<\/p>\n

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