NoHo Arts District, Calif., September 26, 2013 – The Television Academy has announced the recipients of the 65th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards. Recipients will receive their awards during the Wednesday, October 23rd ceremony at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood. The Engineering Awards will be hosted by [to come]. Below is a list of the awards to be presented:
The Philo T. Farnsworth Award
The Philo T. Farnsworth Award honors an agency, company or institution whose contributions over time have significantly impacted television technology and engineering.
Sennheiser Electronic Corporation is this year’s recipient of the Philo. T. Farnsworth Award. The company was founded in 1945, began building microphones in 1946 and was renamed Sennheiser Electronic Corporation in 1958. In 1987, Sennheiser was awarded an Oscar at the 59th Academy Awards for its MKH 816 shotgun microphone. The company began producing modern wireless microphones in 1958 and, in 1996, Sennheiser received an Emmy Award for its advancements in RF wireless technology. In addition to microphones, Sennheiser has always maintained its tradition of high quality audio technology products including headphones, amplifiers and speakers.
Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award
The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award honors a living individual whose on-going contributions have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.
Chris Cookson is this year’s recipient of the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award. Ever the champion of quality, Christopher J. Cookson is known for pushing the television industry to capture and archive the maximum quality possible so that the consumer experience can be enriched as presentation technologies improve. To this end, Cookson has done pioneering work in moving production processes from analog to digital, patenting methods of carrying high-quality data on optical media, developing innovative methods for film archive restoration, and laying the blueprint for end-to-end digital workflows with automated distribution. His substantive work at ABC, CBS, Warner Bros., and now as President of Sony Pictures Technologies, has garnered Cookson many awards including two Emmys.
Engineering Emmys
Five Engineering Emmys will be awarded. Presented to an individual, company or organization for engineering developments so significant an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording or reception of television. This year’s Engineering Emmy recipients are:
See more at www.emmys.com