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Horowitz Television Technology consults with television broadcast equipment end users, research organizations, and manufacturing companies. HTT (an unofficial abbreviation) is a small company; Deanne and David Horowitz are the only employees. She handles the administrative and financial work and he the technical. They have been in business since January 1991 and adopted the name HTT in 1993.

PBS - Since December 1991, HTT has been assisting the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in a number of projects including the conversion of their plant from analog to digital. David prepared the conceptual plan, authored the RFP, and participated on the team that ran the project. HTT has also assisted PBS with many other projects including their HDTV origination facility. David prepared PBS Technical Operating Specifications. David also assists them with administration of government grants to their Member Stations.

PTV STATIONS - HTT has assisted WHYY in Philadelphia on two major projects: planning their major rebuild project in the late 1990s, and their successful ACE master control installation in 2006. HTT worked with WHRO in Norfolk and KAET in Tempe planning their new facilities including the preparation of the WHRO RFP used to choose the systems integrator for the project. HTT prepared a statewide digital television transition plan for all the public TV stations in Virginia. HTT also assisted WETA in planning their new suburban Washington, D.C., facility.

Systems Integrators - HTT assisted Communications Engineering, Inc. on several of their projects including the American Red Cross, AARP, and George Washington University. Comark Digital Systems contracted with HTT to develop DTV solutions for their clients.

Law Firms - HTT has assisted several law firms defend their clients from patent infringement suits. HTT has researched prior art, successfully defusing attempts by "patent trolling" firms to obtain licensing fees.

Commercial and Research - David completed a series of DTV station models for ATTC which were widely known in the industry at the time. HTT also prepared the RFP for the Discovery Channel's Latin America facility in Miami.

Manufacturers - HTT developed an interconnection study for ECI Telecom in Israel and aided them in the specifications for a new product. Media DVX engaged HTT to review specifications for some of the hardware to be used in their delivery system. Dolby Laboratories also hired HTT to review specifications on an upcoming product. Sierra Video contracted with HTT to survey industry offerings in a new area they were considering. One very large computer company used HTT in responding to a major network's RFP and, in a separate project, to develop DTV system models. BTS (forerunner to Philips and Thomson), Hitachi, and Princeton Electronic Billboard (now Princeton Video Image) have engaged HTT for various projects. Recently, HTT completed a marketing study for a software company interested in making a greater penetration into the television station market

CBS - Before becoming a consultant and President of HTT, David Horowitz worked for CBS in New York. His career there spanned 25 years and culminated in 1989 with his promotion to Vice President of Planning in the Engineering and Development Department.

David's first project at the network was the installation of the first color cameras (PC-60s!) for Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News in 1965. He continued with other colorization projects at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York and at TV City in Los Angeles. He designed the video system for CBS's coverage of the 1968 Political Conventions and installed the company's first CMX Editing and Ampex ACR25 Videotape Cartridge systems.

While at CBS, David worked closely with several manufacturers as they developed products. These companies included Ampex, CMX, Control Concepts, Datatek, and others.

David became Associate Director in 1973 and was in charge of projects for the CBS Television Stations and News divisions. Those projects included the world's first all-Electronic News Gathering station, KMOX-TV in St. Louis and the complete modernization and rebuild of WBBM-TV in Chicago. Later, as Director of Audio/Video Engineering, he led the start up of the major update to the NY Broadcast Center. In 1981, he was appointed Director of Planning and was immediately engaged in the conversion to satellite distribution, choosing vendors and negotiating contracts with AT&T, Group W, and Scientific Atlanta. His department planned and estimated many diverse projects. David was promoted to Vice President of Planning in 1989 with varied responsibilities including budgets and technical planning.

Before his career at CBS, David worked for Philco-Ford as an engineer, and served in the U.S. Army in 1962-63 holding the rank of First Lieutenant.

David holds both BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering. David is a senior member of the IEEE and a Fellow and past Governor of the SMPTE. David co-chairs the Technical (Emmy) Awards Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has been a member of the committee for over ten years. David received the 1990 Distinguished Alumni Award from Drexel.