The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has revealed the recipients of the 75th Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards.
The awards will be handed out during NAB New York in October.
The Emmys are presented to a living individual, company, or scientific or technical organisation for developments and/or standardisation involved in engineering technologies that have affected television.
This year’s honourees are:
Pioneering Development of Inexpensive Video Technology for Animation
- Lyon Lamb (Bruce Lyon and John Lamb)
Large Scale Deployment of Smart TV Operating Systems
- Samsung
- LG
- Sony
- Vizio
- Panasonic
Creation and Implementation of HDR Static LUT, Single-Stream Live Production
- BBC
- NBC
Pioneering Technologies Enabling High Performance Communications Over Cable TV Systems
- Broadcom
- General Instrument (CommScope)
- LANcity (CommScope)
- 3COM (HP)
Pioneering Development of Manifest-based Playout for FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television)
- Amagi
- Pluto TV
- Turner
Targeted Ad Messages Delivered Across Paused Media
- DirecTV
Pioneering Development of IP Address Geolocation Technologies to Protect Content Rights
- MLB
- Quova
Development of Stream Switching Technology between Satellite Broadcast and Internet to Improve Signal Reliability
- DirecTV
Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud
- Netint
- AMD
- Meta
Spectrum Auction Design
- FCC
- Auctionomics
TV Pioneers – Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun
- Boris Lvovich Rosing
- Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
TV Pioneers – Development of lighting, ventilation, and lens-coating technologies
- Hertha Ayrton
- Katharine Burr Blodgett
“The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO and president, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honouring these prestigious individuals and companies, together with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of television can be found.”
