Tech & Engineering Emmy Awards

Reception and Dinner
6:30 p.m. January 7, 2010
Mandalay Bay Hotel

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has presented the Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering /Technical Development since 1948. For the fourth year, the Awards were presented at the International CES.

A list of honorees follows and is also available on the National Television Academy’s website at www.emmyonline.tv/tech:

NIELSEN CORPORATION
For its Audience Measurement Technology System

ARBITRON
For its Audience Measurement Technology

PORTAPROMPT
For its Pioneering Development in Electronic Prompting

COMPU=PROMPT
For its Pioneering Development in Electronic Prompting

L3
For its Pioneering Development of MSDC High Power Amplifiers

FOX
For its Pioneering Efforts in Development, Implementation of Network Distribution workflows for ATSC DTV Development

PBS (The Public Broadcasting Service)
For its Pioneering Efforts in Development, Implementation of Network Distribution workflows for ATSC DTV Development

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
For The Development of NTSC Television

CEA (Radio Manufacturers Association)
For The Development of NTSC Television

THE NTSC
For The Development of NTSC Television

HBO (Home Box Office)
For Pioneering Development of Automatic Transmitter Identification for Satellite Television Communications

ELMER MUSSER
For Pioneering Development of Automatic Transmitter Identification for Satellite Television Communication

Awards are presented to an individual, company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent an extensive improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.

Emmys to Honor Jerry Lewis at Upcoming CES

The Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is proud to honor and recognize the humanitarian efforts of Jerry Lewis who, since 1966, has masterfully used the medium of television during his annual MDA Labor Day Telethon to raise $1 billion for Muscular Dystrophy research and equipment.

Jerry will be presented with the Academy’s most prestigious honor at the 61st annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards to be held January 7, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas in conjunction with CES.

Who won in 2009? Check below, and visit the National Television Academy's website for more details.

Serial Interface and Protocols for Server/VTR Control: Harris Corporation and Sony
Delivery Confirmation Systems: XOrbit and Scripps Networks
Development and Standardization of File Formats for Video and Audio: the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and Thomson Grass Valley
Pioneering Development of MPEG-4 AVC Systems for HDTV: Tandberg Television and DirecTV
Pioneering RF Combiners for Adjacent Channels on Common Antenna Systems: Harris, Micro Communications Inc. (MCI) and Radio Frequency Systems (RFS)
Ongoing Live Global HD Cinemacasting: the Metropolitan Opera Association
Help in Developing HDMI: Silicon Image, Thomson, Toshiba, Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Philips, Molex, Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE) and Intel
Standardization of the ATSC Digital System: the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, the Advanced Television System Committee, the Advanced Television Test Center and the Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory
MPEG-4 AVC Standard: Video Coding Expert Group (VCEG) and Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

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