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Engineering Awards 2013

                                              

ABU Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award
This award is open to staff or former staff of ABU broadcaster members within the ABU region only.

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ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award
This award is directed at distinguished personalities in all segments of the broadcasting industry within the ABU region, including the staff or former staff of ABU members including affiliate members. 

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ABU Green Broadcasting Engineering Award  >>>  Sponsored by KOBA
This award is directed at individuals or organisations from all segments of the broadcasting industry within the ABU region, including the staff and former staff of ABU members including affiliate members.  The award is conferred to recognise contributions of an outstanding nature in developing, implementing and/or promoting green technology in the broadcasting industry and creating tangible benefits in the process.  

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NEW >>>  ABU Developing Broadcasters' Excellence Award  >>> Sponsored by SONY
This award is open to staff or former staff of ABU developing broadcaster members within the ABU region only.  This award recognises contributions of an outstanding nature in broadcast engineering made by an individual in a developing broadcasting organisation, including in management of technical resources, and in related disciplines.
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2012 Engineering Awards

ABU Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award

Dr Kazuyoshi Shogen, Senior Associate Director, B-SAT, Japan was awarded the ABU Broadcast Engineering Award.  Sponsored by Sony, Dr Shogen received the citation plaque from Chris Grey, General Manager, Sony, Hong Kong and the trophy from Mr Kevin Tan of Sony, Singapore.

         


ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award

James Rodney Santiago, Consultant, ARIB was awarded the ABU Engineering Industry Award.  

     

ABU Green Broadcast Engineering Award
Seon Kwon Kim, Executive Managing Director of the Korean Broadcasting System was award the inaugural ABU Green Broadcasting Award.  Mr Kim received the award from Choong Jin KIM, CEO/President of KOBA Show (Korea E&Ex).

ABU Technical Review Prizes 2012

The Best Article Award Prize was award to Dr Ngo Thai Tri, Nguyen Chien Thang and Hoang Thanh Tung of Audio Visual Global JSC, AVG-Vietnam for the article titled The First DVB-T2 Single Frequency Network (SFN) in Vietnam.  Mr Nguyen Chien Thang accepted the prize on behalf of AVG-Vietnam.

   

The First Commended Article Award Prize was awarded to Chris Grey and Aaron Hee of Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Ltd for the article titled HD Imaging Technology which appeared in the July-September 2012 issue of the ABU Technical Review.

     

The Second Commended Article Award Prize was awarded to Garry Kum of Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong for the article titled Metadata Project - TVB Experience which appeared in the July-September 2012 issue of the Review.

   


Past Winners

  ABU Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award
2011 A K Bhatnagar, Engineer-in-Chief, Doordarshan, India Wang Jiangqiang, Vice-President, Shanghai Media Group
2010 Dr Abdolali Aliaskary, Vice President, Development and Media Technology Division of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran Zhang Jianping of the Radio and Television of the People's Republic of China
2009 Law Man Hoi Wicky, Engineering Manager, Phoenix Satellite Television of Hong Kong Tay Joo Thong, Chief Technology Officer, MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Singapore
2008 Takao Shimizu, Executive Researcher, Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc, Japan Dr Ahn Dongsu, Vice President of the Ubiquitos Media Contents Alliance and President of the Future Broadcasting Research Group
2007 Kim Sangjin, Manager, Institute of Technology, Seoul Broadcasting System, South Korea Ding Wenhua, Chief Engineer of China Central Television and Vice-Chairman of the ABU Technical Committee, RTPRC-China
2006 A S Guin, Engineer-in-Chief, All India Radio Dr Osamu Yamada, Director General of Corporate R&D Laboratories, Pioneer Corporation
2005 Dr Takehiko Yoshino of NHK, Japan Valod Stepanian of IRIB, Iran
2004 Richard Barton of FreeTV-Australia R K Gupta of Doordarshan, India
2003  The inaugural ABU Excellence Awards were presented in Istanbul in October, 2003
  Taiji Nishizawa, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, NHK-Japan Bimal Kumar De of Doordarshan-India

Distinguished Service Award

 2011  David Wood, European Broadcasting Union
 2010  Kenji Nagai, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan
 2004   Professor Mark Krivocheev, Russian Federation  

ABU Lifetime Achievement Award

 2013   Erina Tobing, TVRI, Indonesia
 2012  Doan Viet Trung, VOV, Vietnam
 2011  Dr Jonghwa Lee, KBS, Korea
 2010  Joan Warner, Commercial Radio Australia
 2009  John Bigeni, DVB, Asia (formerly ABC, Australia) 
 2008  Peter Senger, DW, Germany

ABU Technical Review Prize Winners
  Best Article Commended Article 1 Commended Article 2
2011  KBS-Korea NHK-Japan ThaiPBS
2010 NHK-Japan Radio New Zealand
RTM-Malaysia
2009 MediaCorp-Singapore NHK-Japan MBC & MCML-Mauritius
2008 NHK-Japan IRIB-Iran ASTRO-Malaysia
2007 RTPRC-China NHK-Japan VOV-Vietnam
2006 KBS-Korea RTHK-Hong Kong VOV-Vietnam
2005 TBS-Japan AIR-India NHK-Japan
2004 NHK-Japan KBS-Korea MediaCorp-Singapore
2003 MediaCorp-Singapore NHK-Japan DDI-India



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