The European Broadcasting Union has been awarded three Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for excellence in engineering creativity.

The awards recognise three key technologies collaboratively developed by the EBU that have shaped or underpin systems widely used by the broadcast industry today.

The first Emmy Award honours the EBU’s role in the creation of the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), an interchange file format that paved the way for cross-platform post-production workflows.

The award is shared with AMWA (formerly AAF Association Inc), Avid Technology and BBC Research & Development.

The second award recognises the standardisation and commercialisation of broadcast, hybrid electrical and fibre optic camera cable and connectors.

The EBU shares this award with SMPTE, The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), LEMO, Belden and NEMAL.

The third award rewards the work on Common Encryption, a fundamental technology design that separates the encryption function from the content contribution or distribution system and can accommodate the presence of multiple encryption or conditional access system in parallel.

The EBU shares this Award with DVB.

“These three Emmy Awards confirm our conviction that collaboration between organisations is key to successful innovation, and we will continue on this path,” EBU Director of Technology & Innovation Antonio Arcidiacono said.

EBU Technology & Innovation experts coordinate working groups and develop innovative solutions on behalf of the EBU membership represented by the EBU Technical Committee.