The Television Academy immediately introduced the recipients of the 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards honoring a person, firm or group for developments in broadcast expertise. The awards ceremony shall 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,” stated 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,” stated 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 potential by Television Academy sponsors Decoy, FIJI Water, Franciacorta, Johnnie Walker Blue Label, LG, People, The Ritz-Carlton and United Airlines.
The following is an inventory of awards and recipients to be acknowledged:
Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award
Honors a residing particular person whose ongoing contributions have considerably affected the state of tv expertise and engineering.
Recipient: Mark Schubin
Mark Schubin (with a level in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology) has been in tv since 1967, engaged on each facet, together with design, manufacturing, lighting, sound, digicam, enhancing and distribution. His various tasks have spanned the world on all seven continents, together with Antarctica, from operas to the Olympics. He helped develop the broadcasting of the Metropolitan Opera (The Met) productions to cinemas and tv stations around the globe and has continued supporting this undertaking for a few years since its inception.
Mark refers to himself as an “Engineer and Explainer”: His non-judgmental — however humorous — communication of information and arcane — however related — data is what endears him to creatives, enterprise executives and technologists alike. This is why he has been this system chair of the HPA Tech Retreat since 1998, speaks ceaselessly at occasions and seminars on a big selection of technical subjects and on the historical past of tv, and has been a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Awards committee for greater than 30 years.
A prolific engineering historian, educator {and professional} author, when Sports Video Group requested him to take action, he modified his greater than 33-year-old month-to-month column on “Video Research” in Videography journal into SchubinCafe, which is archived by the Library of Congress. Mark’s lifetime of accomplishments within the tv business are famous past this archive by his quite a few publications, patents and awards.
For extra data, please go to SchubinCafe.com.
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award
Honors an company, firm or establishment whose contributions over time have considerably impacted tv expertise and engineering.
Recipient: 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 assist of broadcasting. Since its founding in 1930, the staff has led the way in which in breakthroughs that grew to become on a regular basis necessities — like FM radio, stereo sound and the Radio Data System that sends track titles and visitors updates to automotive radios. Over the many years, they’ve been central to necessary developments in tv, taking part in a pivotal function within the growth 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 necessary business collaboration on the affect 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 can permit media creators to grasp higher human/AI collaboration and copyrightability of AI-generated media. Behind the scenes and screens, BBC R&D stays an necessary business drive that shapes how tv will help us join with tales and one another, immediately and sooner or later.
For extra data, please go to BBC.co.uk/rd.
Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards
Presented to a person, firm or group for developments in engineering, science and expertise which can be both so intensive an enchancment on current strategies or so progressive 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.
Recipients: George Dochev and Peter Thompson for the event of LucidLink
LucidLink is a cloud-native storage collaboration platform that streams knowledge on demand, letting inventive groups entry and edit the identical recordsdata immediately from anyplace – with out syncing, downloading, VPNs, or complicated IT. It mounts like an area drive and gives 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 massive media as if it had been native. Widely adopted by main studios, streamers, and inventive homes, LucidLink has change into an important device for tv tasks worldwide.
For extra data, please go to LucidLink.com.
Recipient: 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 wash up manufacturing audio with outstanding effectivity, minimal artifacts, and distinctive high quality. Since its launch, Hush Pro has shortly change into an important device at post-production studios around the globe, delivering pristine dialogue whereas considerably decreasing the necessity for ADR.
For extra data, please go to HushAudioApp.com.
Recipients: 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 just about lossless picture high quality. JPEG XS is subsequently excellent for dwell, skilled video and broadcast purposes the place bandwidth presents challenges to ship the very best high quality. JPEG XS permits the transmission of high-resolution video streams over commonplace Ethernet infrastructure. This makes JPEG XS a elementary sport changer for real-time transmission of video for all kinds of purposes in media and studio expertise in addition to making real-time video processing in knowledge facilities sensible.
For extra data, please go to: FraunhoferIIS.com and intoPIX.
Recipients: 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 knowledge over digital Internet Protocol (IP) networks in skilled media environments. It emerged as a substitute for conventional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) infrastructure, providing higher 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, please go to SMPTE.org, EBU.ch and VSF.tv.
Recipients: Mark T. Noel, Jesse Noel, Casey D. Noel and J.D. Schwalm for the event of the NACMO sequence of movement bases
The NACMO sequence of movement bases are the primary of their variety, developed as a cell movement base constructed particularly for tv and cinema manufacturing. These machines present a protected 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 screen for the surroundings and the actors concerned. NACMO movement bases may be arrange on location or on a sound stage. They are sometimes used along side LED quantity levels.
For extra data, please go to NACeffects.com.
Recipient: Jayson Dumenigo for the event of Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels
Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels are progressive, high-performance polymers engineered to offer unmatched safety towards excessive warmth in the course of the efficiency of fireside 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 circumstances, considerably chopping down on the time it takes to perform a hearth 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 expertise make Play’n with Fire gels a game-changer for tv and stunt professionals, setting a brand new commonplace in security and efficiency.
For extra data, please go to AFstunts.com.
Recipients: 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 shortly and save worthwhile time on set — AGITO delivers every part from traditional monitoring pictures 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 contemporary inventive potentialities for each digicam operators and cinematographers.
For extra data, please go to MotionImpossible.com.
Recipients: 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 provides 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 lots of in a well-known assembly expertise. With strong utility programming interface (API) and software program growth equipment (SDK) assist, it plugs into current manufacturing instruments, making high-quality distant contributions each accessible and reasonably priced — and eliminating the standard boundaries of expense and technical complexity in dwell broadcasting.
For extra data, please go to: Zoom.com
Recipients: Boris Yamnitsky, Jason Clement, Mike Escola and Peter McAuley for the event of Boris FX Continuum
Boris FX Continuum stands as one of the vital 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, changing into a defining commonplace for results, transitions and picture restoration. With a legacy outlined by reliability and innovation, Continuum continues to evolve via graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, machine studying–pushed results and a deep library of presets, making certain its ongoing function as a cornerstone of contemporary post-production.
For extra data, please go to borisfx.com.
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