NATAS Reveals Technology & Engineering Emmy Award Recipients

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of the 75th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards.

The ceremony will take place in partnership with the NAB New York media & technology convention as part of their convention in New York in October at the Javits Center.

“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 & President, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honoring these prestigious individuals and companies, together with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of television can be found.”

The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards are awarded to a living individual, a company, or a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television.

Recipients 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 and 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:
Netting, AMD, Google, Meta

Spectrum Auction Design: FCC and 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



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