NAB Show Highlights

BEIT

The 2023 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference (BEITC) was held at NAB Show in April. Renard Jenkins, president of Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), keynoted the conference, which was held over four days and included 44 individual sessions and paper presentations. The 2023 NAB BEITC Proceedings, a collections of papers presented at the conference, are available for purchase online.

GLobal Next Gen Broadcasting Conference

In partnership with the Korea Radio Promotion Association (RAPA), NAB co-produced and hosted the fourth Global Next Gen Broadcasting Conference at NAB Show. This conference highlighted deployments and updates about Next Gen TV around the world. Participants included representatives from the U.S., Korea, the Caribbean, Brazil and India.

Awards

  • Digital Leadership Award: Lora Dennis, executive vice president of Digital Media for NBCUniversal Local
  • Engineering Achievement Award for Television: Doug Lung, vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local
  • Engineering Achievement Award for Radio: Michael Cooney, chief technology officer at Beasley Media Group
  • Technology Innovation Award: Triveni Digital Inc., PBS North Carolina & Device Solutions Inc. - demonstration of an ATSC 3.0 Solution for Emergency Paging