The Television Academy has introduced the recipients of the 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards honoring a person, firm or group for developments in broadcast know-how. The awards ceremony can be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, on the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California.
“Behind every unforgettable moment on screen is a breakthrough in science, technology or engineering,” mentioned Cris Abrego, chair of the Television Academy. “These groundbreaking innovations transform the way stories are created, shared and experienced. We celebrate these Emmy winners for forever changing how we experience the magnificent power of television.”
“This year’s Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards acknowledge the wide range of technologies used in our industry to aid the storytelling process,” said Barry Zegel, co-chair of the Engineering, Science & Technology Committee. “The award recipients represent a remarkable group of cutting-edge technologies that have advanced television production, safety and artistry in ways unfathomable when our industry began. In addition, we are recognizing the innovators responsible for remarkable production tools and setting standards that have revolutionized broadcast production and distribution.”
Added co-chair Wendy Aylsworth, “We also extend our hearty congratulations to Mark Schubin, who is receiving the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, and to BBC Research & Development on receiving the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award. Both are incredibly deserving of these prestigious legacy awards.”
The Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards are made possible by Television Academy sponsors Decoy, FIJI Water, Franciacorta, Johnnie Walker Blue Label, LG, People, The Ritz-Carlton and United Airlines.
The following is a list of awards and recipients to be recognized:
Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award
This award honors a living individual whose ongoing contributions have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.
This year’s recipient is Mark Schubin.
Mark Schubin (with a degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology) has been in television since 1967, working on every aspect, including design, manufacturing, lighting, sound, camera, editing and distribution. His diverse projects have spanned the world on all seven continents, including Antarctica, from operas to the Olympics. He helped develop the broadcasting of the Metropolitan Opera (The Met) productions to cinemas and television stations around the world and has continued supporting this project for many years since its inception.
Mark refers to himself as an “Engineer and Explainer”: His non-judgmental — but humorous — communication of facts and arcane — but relevant — information is what endears him to creatives, business executives and technologists alike. This is why he has been the program chair of the HPA Tech Retreat since 1998, speaks frequently at events and seminars on a wide array of technical topics and on the history of television, and has been a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Awards committee for more than 30 years.
A prolific engineering historian, educator and professional writer, when Sports Video Group asked him to do so, he changed his more than 33-year-old monthly column on “Video Research” in Videography magazine into SchubinCafe, which is archived by the Library of Congress. Mark’s lifetime of accomplishments in the television industry are noted beyond this archive by his numerous publications, patents and awards.
For more information, visit SchubinCafe.com.
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award
This award honors an company, firm or establishment whose contributions over time have considerably impacted tv know-how and engineering.
This 12 months’s recipient is BBC Research & Development
BBC Research & Development has had a proud historical past of shaping how we watch and expertise tv because it centered on its public mission in help of broadcasting. Since its founding in 1930, the workforce has led the best way in breakthroughs that turned on a regular basis necessities — like FM radio, stereo sound and the Radio Data System that sends tune titles and site visitors updates to automotive radios. Over the a long time, they’ve been central to vital developments in tv, taking part in a pivotal position within the improvement and standardization of High-Definition Television (HDTV), Ultra High-Definition Television (UHDTV), Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) for the carriage of High Dynamic Range (HDR) data and 5G networks.
Looking forward, their work continues to assist outline the way forward for tv in its analysis on Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). BBC Research & Development continues to steer and take part within the vital trade collaboration on the influence and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As co-founders of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, BBC Research & Development can also be serving to to create requirements that may permit media creators to know higher human/AI collaboration and copyrightability of AI-generated media. Behind the scenes and screens, BBC R&D stays an vital trade pressure that shapes how tv may also help us join with tales and one another, immediately and sooner or later.
For extra data, go to BBC.co.uk/rd.
Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards
Presented to a person, firm or group for developments in engineering, science and know-how which might be both so in depth an enchancment on current strategies or so revolutionary in nature that they materially have an effect on the manufacturing, recording, transmission or reception of tv and thereby have elevated the storytelling course of.
George Dochev and Peter Thompson, LucidLink
LucidLink is a cloud-native storage collaboration platform that streams information on demand, letting inventive groups entry and edit the identical recordsdata immediately from wherever – with out syncing, downloading, VPNs, or complicated IT. It mounts like an area drive and offers a single supply of safe, always-up-to-date recordsdata. In media & leisure, LucidLink powers edit-in-place, VFX, audio, and ending workflows, supporting rising recordsdata and enabling distributed groups to work on giant media as if it had been native. Widely adopted by main studios, streamers, and inventive homes, LucidLink has turn out to be a vital instrument for tv tasks worldwide.
For extra data, go to LucidLink.com.
Ian Sampson for the event of Hush Pro
Hush Pro is an AI-powered audio plugin that isolates dialogue from ambient noise, transient sounds, and room reflections. It permits editors and re-recording mixers to scrub up manufacturing audio with outstanding effectivity, minimal artifacts, and distinctive high quality. Since its launch, Hush Pro has rapidly turn out to be a vital instrument at post-production studios world wide, delivering pristine dialogue whereas considerably lowering the necessity for ADR.
For extra data, go to HushAudioApp.com.
Fraunhofer IIS and intoPIX for the event of JPEG XS
JPEG XS is a state-of-the-art picture compression format that transmits high-quality photographs with minimal latency and low-resource consumption, with nearly lossless picture high quality. JPEG XS is due to this fact best for dwell, skilled video and broadcast functions the place bandwidth presents challenges to ship the best high quality. JPEG XS permits the transmission of high-resolution video streams over customary Ethernet infrastructure. This makes JPEG XS a basic recreation changer for real-time transmission of video for all kinds of functions in media and studio know-how in addition to making real-time video processing in information facilities sensible.
For extra data, go to: FraunhoferIIS.com and intoPIX.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers [SMPTE], European Broadcasting Union [EBU] and Video Services Forum [VSF] for the event of the ST 2110 Suite of Standards
ST 2110 is a set of requirements for transmitting uncompressed video, audio, and information over digital Internet Protocol (IP) networks in skilled media environments. It emerged as a substitute for conventional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) infrastructure, providing larger flexibility and scalability. It is now broadly adopted, enhancing flexibility and scalability over the earlier era of Serial Digital Interfaces (SDI) and is foundational to all digital content material transmissions.
For extra data, go to SMPTE.org, EBU.ch and VSF.tv.
Mark T. Noel, Jesse Noel, Casey D. Noel and J.D. Schwalm for the event of the NACMO collection of movement bases
The NACMO collection of movement bases are the primary of their form, developed as a cellular movement base constructed particularly for tv and cinema manufacturing. These machines present a secure and streamlined strategy to giving six axes of movement (seven with the optionally available rotator) to any in any other case static prop or set piece be it a ship, helicopter or automotive. The largest movement base — “Mo” — has a 75,000-pound capability and can provide all ranges of movement to offer an actual expertise that interprets on the display for the atmosphere and the actors concerned. NACMO movement bases could be arrange on location or on a sound stage. They are sometimes used along with LED quantity phases.
For extra data, go to NACeffects.com.
Jayson Dumenigo for the event of Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels
Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels are revolutionary, high-performance polymers engineered to offer unmatched safety in opposition to excessive warmth in the course of the efficiency of fireplace stunts. Designed for sturdiness and utility at 74-76 levels F; not iced, these gels preserve distinctive stability and require minimal reapplication even beneath probably the most intense situations, considerably slicing down on the time it takes to perform a fireplace stunt on set. In a record-breaking stunt, it withstood direct flame publicity for 5 minutes and 25 seconds and temperatures upward of 2000 levels Fahrenheit. Its reliability, ease of use and groundbreaking heat-protective know-how make Play’n with Fire gels a game-changer for tv and stunt professionals, setting a brand new customary in security and efficiency.
For extra data, go to AFstunts.com.
Rob Drewett and Andy Nancollis for the event of the AGITO Dolly System
AGITO is a flexible, compact modular robotic dolly system designed to maintain cameras regular and in movement for movie and tv manufacturing. Often likened to a “Swiss Army Knife” for digicam motion, it folds the work of a number of conventional rigs right into a single, reconfigurable platform. With quick-switch modes together with free-roaming, track-based, overhead and MagTrax — the latter utilizing a easy strip of magnetic tape to information the digicam with precision, permitting crews to reset rapidly and save beneficial time on set — AGITO delivers every part from traditional monitoring photographs to complicated, repeatable strikes all from one adaptable system. This groundbreaking strategy represents a leap ahead within the artwork and engineering of digicam motion — opening up recent inventive potentialities for each digicam operators and cinematographers.
For extra data, go to MotionImpossible.com.
Andy Carluccio, Jonathan Kokotajlo, Eyal Hadida and Brendan Ittelson for the event of Zoom for Broadcast
Zoom for Broadcast is a media integration platform that turns Zoom Meetings into broadcast-ready feeds, extracting particular person high-quality video and audio from distant individuals and routing them into skilled dwell productions as if they had been in-studio. It offers producers deep management over every visitor’s AV settings, makes use of Zoom’s international cloud infrastructure to ship low-latency, dependable streams with out pricey tools or complicated setups, and elegantly scales from one visitor to a whole bunch in a well-recognized assembly expertise. With sturdy utility programming interface (API) and software program improvement package (SDK) help, it plugs into current manufacturing instruments, making high-quality distant contributions each accessible and inexpensive — and eliminating the standard limitations of expense and technical complexity in dwell broadcasting.
For extra data, go to: Zoom.com
Boris Yamnitsky, Jason Clement, Mike Escola and Peter McAuley for the event of Boris FX Continuum
Boris FX Continuum stands as one of the crucial enduring plugin collections in post-production historical past, relied upon for many years by editors, movement graphics designers and VFX artists. Its instruments have formed the look of broadcast tv, turning into a defining customary for results, transitions and picture restoration. With a legacy outlined by reliability and innovation, Continuum continues to evolve by way of graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, machine studying–pushed results and a deep library of presets, making certain its ongoing position as a cornerstone of contemporary post-production.