LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE

TONY WERNERPresident

Technology and ProductComcast Cable

W elcome to the National Academy’s Annual Awards Ceremony for Technology and Engineering. Our honorees represent the best in Technological Achievement for the Television and Media profession and we recognize them in six different

categories that continue to push the envelope of what’s possible for both viewer and provider alike.This year our Lifetime Achievement honoree is Tony Werner of Comcast Cable. Mr. Werner takes his place along with previous

winners such as Charles Pagano, Kazuo Hirai, Manolo Romero, David Hill, Sir Howard Stringer, Ray Dolby and Eddie Hartenstein.As Chairman of the Engineering Achievement Committee, I am very fortunate to have the assistance of many dedicated and

knowledgeable committee members, whose tireless efforts ensure that these awardees and technologies are the best in the industry. Special thanks to my Co-Chair, Seth Haberman and Chairman Emeritus, Charlie Jablonski, for their ongoing assistance.

My thanks also to Chuck Dages, Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees for their continued support. I would also like to thank the Awards Committee, Chaired by Linda Giannecchini, as well as Bob Mauro and the National Office Staff whose efforts ensure the high quality of the Award Ceremony. nSincerely,

A s Chairman of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you the 68th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards.

Tonight, we honor the companies and individuals who continue to raise the level of technical achievement of what is possible in our industry. Evertz, EVS and FOR-A honored for their innovations in camera and server technology that provides Sports viewers with a new way to see game changing events; Telcon (Alcatel Lucent-Submarine Networks), Society of Telegraph Engineers (Institution of Engineering and Technology) and Siemens for their work on what is the basis of every television camera ever made; The Media Object Server Group for their work in creating the technology that enabled integration of multiple media types (video, stills, graphics, audio) from multiple media devices built by multiple manufacturers; Invidi Technologies and Visible World honored for their successful deployment of targeted linear advertising technology at the headend, household and individual viewer level; Corning and Bell Labs / Western Electric (OFS) honored for their invention and deployment of fiber optic cable; and IBM Corporation and Laser Pacific/SCAA (Technicolor) for their work in pioneering the technology to automate the digital on-line assembly of broadcast content.

In addition, we are also happy to acknowledge the outstanding vision and success of Comcast Cable’s Tony Werner, our Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, for his more than 25 years as a leader in the digital revolution in video, voice and data services.

There are many people to thank starting with our Engineering Achievement Committee, especially Chairman Robert P. Seidel, Co-Chair, Seth Haberman and Chairman Emeritus, Charles Jablonski. Their dedication, along with their many members, make tonight’s event possible.

In addition, I would like to thank our NATAS Executive Committee, our Board of Trustees, our Awards Chair, Linda Giannecchini and our National Office Staff, led by our President, Bob Mauro, for their support, guidance and counsel in making this evening a success

Finally, I would like to thank David Pogue, the Yahoo! Tech Guru and our five-time host, for providing us with his sparkling expertise, his innovative humor and his visionary musical insight into our digital world. n

Enjoy!

Chuck L. DagesChairman, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

WELCOME

Robert P. Seidel, ChairThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Engineering Achievement Committee

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W elcome to the 68th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards! As President of The National Academy

of Television Arts & Sciences, it is one of my great honors to participate in the oldest and some say, the original, of all our Emmy Award programs!

This has been an exciting year in our industry and tonight we stop to honor you, the backbone of the broadcast media business, the technologists & engineers, the ones that create the means by which others can create.

This year clearly covers the gamut of television history as we reach back to honor those individuals and companies that led to the discovery of light waves hitting selenium, the basis of every television camera, and then fast-forward to the world of 4K digital pictures traveling through fiber optic cable! The television-on-demand and social media universe we live in today has all been made possible by the leaders and visionaries that saw the future and grabbed it, exampled by our Lifetime Achievement honoree, Tony Werner, who has grown Comcast Cable into one of the largest media

conglomerates in the nation.While celebrating our distinguished honorees and guests,

I’d be remiss if I did not also take a moment to acknowledge the work of the NATAS Engineering Achievement Committee, led by Robert P. Seidel, for their focus and dedication to honoring excellence in our industry and the many companies who participated in the long journey before being chosen for what is considered the ultimate award in our industry. I would also like to thank our NATAS Organization, the Executives and Trustees, Presidents and Administrators across our 19 Chapters, and our National Awards Committee for their participation in the process, led by Awards Chair, Linda Giannecchini.

In closing, my warmest thank you goes out to our National Office Staff for their countless hours of hard work, relentless commitment and perseverance in making tonight’s event a rousing success. n

Congratulations and enjoy!

Bob MauroPresident The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

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Welcome, Chuck Dages

Introductions, Robert P. Seidel

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Digital On-Line Assembly IBM, Laser Pacific / SCAA (Technicolor)

Fiber Optic Cable Corning Incorporated, Bell Labs / Western Electric

Opto-Electric Transduction Alcatel-Lucent , Institution of Engineering & Technology, Siemens

Targeted Household Advertising Invidi Technologies, Visible World

Media Object Server Protocol MOS Group

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Non-Interpolated Instant Replay Evertz, EVS, FOR-A

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Live Production Technology Beyond HD to Achieve Non-Interpolated Video for Instant Replay

Evertz, EVS and FOR-A are all being honored for their innovations in camera and server technology that now provide an unprecedented level of detail in TV sports viewing. With this new process, viewers are now getting a much closer look at crucial moments in a game, from a ball that’s fumbled to a player’s foot that’s out of bounds. The process begins with the capture of a 4K image. With that ultra high-resolution image, the systems operator is able to place an “HDTV window” over the desired portion of the image, thus zooming in on whatever detail is crucial to the game. By cutting an HDTV slice out of a 4K image, Evertz’s DreamCatcher, EVS’ Espio Zoom, and FOR-A’s FT-ONE and ZE-ONE series provide high-resolution, crystal clear images of the moments that sports fans most want to see in detail. Used in stadiums, by broadcasters, sportscasters and mobile trucks, all three companies’ products provide a dynamic system that improves the accuracy and time per review in a scalable framework. n

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Concept of Opto-Electric Transduction

Telcon (now, Alcatel Lucent-Submarine Networks), Society of Telegraph Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology) and Siemens are being honored for their work on the concept of opto-electric transduction. The Institution of Engineering and Technology historian Anne Locker describes how, in 1873, when the second trans-Atlantic cable was being installed, telegraph engineer, Willoughly Smith first realized that selenium was more conductive in daytime than night and deduced that it reacted to light. At the time, Smith, who worked for the telegraph company Telcon, wrote a letter to the Society of Telegraph Engineers, wrote a letter describing his findings, which provoked much discussion among its members.

Werner von Siemens (whose brother William was a former president of the Society of Telegraph Engineers) took that discovery a step further in 1876, by building the Artificial Eye, with its selenium “retina.” Locker notes that many now credit Siemens’ Artificial Eye as the first TV camera, albeit a very low resolution one. What was discovered in the late 1800s – opto-electric

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transduction – is the conversion of variations in light intensity to an electronic signal (also described as the photoelectric effect) and the basis of every television camera ever made. nDevelopment and Standardization of Media Object Server (MOS) Protocol

The Media Object Server (MOS) Group is being honored for its work in creating the MOS Protocol, which enables the integration of many different types of media (video, stills, graphics, audio) from many different devices built by multiple manufacturers. The work to achieve this was a highly collaborative effort, involving at least 300 leading software and hardware manufacturers. According to the Group, “the MOS Protocol is intended to be a global industry solution to the problem of ‘How do I get my brand-X computer system to communicate with my brand-Y media server?’”

The MOS Communications Protocol is the framework for information exchange between newsroom computer systems (NCS) and Media Object Servers, enabling the NCS to be aware of “media objects” that are created, modified or deleted and able to search or manipulate that data. The NCS can also build and transfer playlist information to the MOS, allowing it to control the sequence that media objects are played or presented. The MOS can also inform the NCS of the status of specific clips, and the NCS can tell the MOS of the status of playlist items or running orders.

The immediate impact of the integration and automation enabled by the MOS Protocol has been to allow newscasters to move to multiple distribution platforms without the extra costs of additional personnel. MOS-enabled products (defined as any device that can store media objects) can now be found in most television newsrooms around the world. n

System for Executing Targeted Household Advertising on Linear Television

Invidi Technologies and Visible World are both honored for their successful deployment of targeted linear advertising technology at the headend, household and individual viewer levels.

Both companies developed ad serving technology that has led to expanded revenue for ad sales and increased the overall value of inventory, by making it more targeted and, hence, more relevant. Targeted advertising on linear TV is an improvement to television advertising that has created a better experience for the viewer and expanded ad revenue for TV stations.

Invidi Technologies COO / Global CTO Bruce Anderson notes that the desire to customize advertising for specific segments of the viewing audience has “been around as long as TV. But until video went digital in the mid-1990s, with the approval of HDTV formats and cable systems, there was no practical way you could send a different commercial to each household,” But, as the number of networks increased and viewership for any given network declined, the need grew urgent to break the audience into correlated segments and run ads for each segment.

“In the late 1990s and early 200s, a lot of companies embarked on trying to solve this problem,” says Anderson. “Invidi stood alone in taking the approach that we had to work with the existing TV ecosystem, and we modified the software in the set-top box to transmit advertising to the set-top box to select the most appropriate ad to watch. Nothing in the video transmission system needed to be evolved or changed.”

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Both Invidi and Visible World were founded in 2000; the two companies deliver targeted ads to nearly every household in the U.S. nPioneering Invention and Deployment of Fiber Optic Cable

Corning and Bell Labs/Western Electric (OFS) are honored for their invention and deployment of fiber optic cable, now accepted globally as the solution for data transmission – including digital video – over distance. Fiber optic cable has displaced copper and coax as the primary medium for communication traffic.

“In 1970, our scientists faced what seemed like

an impossible task – sending pulses of light down a strand of glass the thickness of a hair, while minimizing signal loss along the way,” says Corning Executive Vice President Clark Kinlin, who credits Corning scientists Dr. Don Keck, Dr. Bob Maurer and Dr. Peter Schultz for their “life-changing innovation.” “But by creating a multi-layer infrastructure inside the strand of ultra-pure glass, with the right composition to contain light, they ultimately

succeeded.” The next challenge was to take Corning’s

invention and turn it into a commercially viable product. AT&T (of which Bell Labs and Western Electric were divisions) did exactly that, says David J. DiGiovanni, chief technology officer of OFS, formerly Lucent Technologies, which spun off from Western Electric. “The key achievement was the development of a process for developing large quantities of optical fiber that could be put into a cable. To do so required a whole suite of technologies, from the lasers to transmit the signal and the detectors to detect it to the cable to protect the fiber, a way to couple the fibers together and all the connector hardware and infrastructure. AT&T created and owned the full infrastructure.”

Since Corning’s invention of low-loss optical fiber, about 3 billion kilometers of optical fiber are deployed around the

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Tony Werner on a well deserved honor.

world, to handle the intense demand for bandwidth due to Internet traffic, video consumption, digital apps among others. Cisco predicts that, by 2019, Internet traffic will be at two zettabytes per year. nPioneering Technology to Automate the Digital On-Line Assembly of Broadcast Content

IBM Corporation and Laser Pacific/SCAA (Technicolor) are honored for their work in pioneering the technology to automate digital online assembly of broadcast content. Previously, assembling online content for TV was achieved with multiple videotape machines controlled via timecode and relying on an Edit Decision List (EDL). With the technology innovated by these two companies, the assembly time was dramatically cut 75 percent, with labor costs cut 85 percent.

In the 1980s, LaserPacific Media Corporation’s

research and development team, based on an original concept from Doug Jaqua, created the SuperComputer Assembly system, led by the company’s chief executive Emory Cohen, vice president Leon Silverman, and senior vice president of engineering Randy Blim with software engineers Jay Sherbon and David Register. The result was awarded a 1985 Technical Achievement Emmy Award, for revolutionizing the creation of standard definition programming. Later, LaserPacific updated its SuperComputer Assembly system to handle High Definition images for television and motion pictures, a feat that, says Blim, because of the limits of computers in general, including “super

computers,” required significant technical creativity” to achieve the desired results.

IBM’s first involvement was to supply its new super computers to LaserPacific in 1993. In 1991, IBM Research had created its Power Visualization System (PVS), which harnessed multiple processing units to work concurrently, a process known as high performance parallel interface (HIPPI). Although it was initially used for geographical graphics rendering and other highly intensive computer processing tasks in the scientific community, the company realized that it could also be utilized in the media and entertainment arena.

A founding member of IBM’s media and entertainment division, Steve Canepa made connections with LaserPacific. “We partnered with

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LaserPacific,” explains Peter Guglielmino, CTO of IBM’s M&E segment. “Our PVS enabled LaserPacific to scan programming to Video CD, reading multiple video files and then outputting a composite video file at the end.” Another early user of IBM’s PVS was noted visual effects facility Boss Films, which used it for TV productions as well as feature films. “They used it for compositing, color correction, cropping and erasing wires,” says Guglielmino. “Because of the PVS’s bandwidth and high performance disc subsystem, it could access video clips and process them in multiple ways, all in one box.”

“Up until that point in time, the only way to do video processing was to build custom hardware devices,” he concludes. “PVS did demonstrate to the movie production industry that you could use commodity computing to do video processing.” n

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Tony G. Werner, President of Technology and Product for Comcast Cable, is being honored with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award. Since joining Comcast

in 2006, Werner, whose responsibilities include innovation, development and operations of Comcast’s consumer-facing products, has shepherded major platform developments including the pioneering X1 Entertainment Operating System, DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 as well as the voice remote and cloud DVR.

When asked about what achievement he is most proud of, without hesitation, Werner replies he is first and foremost proud of the team, “I’m honored to be a part of that, and I mean that with sincerity”. That response describes Werner at his core: a superb technologist whose success is due in large part to his passion for people and team-building. Everyone loves working for Tony, not a small achievement given his exacting nature, daily 7:30 am meetings and high expectations that his colleagues commit to professional growth. Comcast Senior Vice President of Next Generation Access Networks and Technical Operations John Heslip has worked with Werner for

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30 years, beginning at Rogers Communications, and he recalls how Werner has mentored him over the years.

“He’s ‘coerced’ me into several positions, moving me around, much to my chagrin in some cases,” Heslip says. “Then he made sure he spent enough

time with me so I stood up in those positions. Very few people do that, and Tony has done that for many, many people in the industry. It’s just his value system. People are front and center for him.”

Werner says he always kept his eyes on where he wanted to go, making moves that positioned him to

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achieve his goal of rising to a top technology position in a large enterprise. Until he was in fourth grade, he lived in a modest home without indoor plumbing in a small Minnesota town, attending a one-room country school. His love for technology began with a single-transistor radio, while he was still living on the family farm. His focus on electronics grew until he was repairing TVs and other electronics to make money while he became the first member of his family to attend college, at Dakota County Technical College.

From the very beginning of his career, Werner’s career moves were strategic, in the service of his ultimate goal. When he was offered a job at WGN in Albuquerque, he jumped, even though it meant a big pay cut. “WGN in Chicago began buying up

cable companies, and Albuquerque was a large cable market,” says Werner. “I headed up that division and learned about network design and communications, which was invaluable later in life.”

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Some of Werner’s own leadership style can be gleaned from those he points to as his mentors. Among them, he points to Rogers Communications executive Cliff Williams as “one person who did so much for me in my formative years. In the early 1980s, I was totally intimidated by any kind of public speaking, so he immediately put me on the stage in front of the company. So I learned pretty quickly I better get good at it. Just by setting very high expectations, I ended up having to step up.” He also points to Ted Rogers as a brilliant entrepreneur, “I learned so much by being in meetings with him and seeing how he set directions and how passionate he was, Ted said unless you’ve mortgaged your house at least three times, you can’t call yourself an entrepreneur, and I think it’s true. It underscores

the risks and big bets these entrepreneurs took, and

I’ve done my best to study these folks and learned a lot from them.”

In the last few years, Werner took a risk when he committed work with his team to create Comcast XFINITY’s X1 platform, which features intuitive voice control, cloud storage, on-demand programming, cloud DVR recordings, and integrated app experiences. “The

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X1,” says Heslip,” is the biggest thing the cable industry has done in decades.” Comcast Cable Executive Vice President/CTO Sree Kotay notes that when the X1 project was kicked off in 2010, “most of the world was saying video was dead in our business,” and, now, “2016 far has been our best video year in nine years.” With the X1, says Kotay, the product paradigm shifted from launching a new product every one or two years to a very different model. “With the X1, it changes all the time,” he says. “We make updates every day, every week. That changes how we engage our customers, feedback loops, support models. And a lot of that is due to Tony.”

Comcast Cable Senior Vice President / General Manager of Network Platform Operations Jan Hofmeyr recounts that Werner entrusted him and Kotay to create the X1 platform. “It was a big risk and the biggest

investment the company had made in many years,” he says. “The solution we proposed was so futuristic at the time, and Tony said, let’s make this a big bet for Comcast and the industry. Now we’ve syndicated it to Cox and Shaw, and it’s made us a leader in the industry.”

Many of Werner’s colleagues attest to the fact that he is always thinking about the bigger picture. Shaw Communications CTO Zoran Stakic notes that Werner “doesn’t just think about his company but about the industry. Everything he does for his company, he also thinks about how it will make our industry stronger. Second he’s not just thinking about the next step. He’s playing chess in his mind and thinking about what we have to be ready to do as the third or fourth step. Being intellectually capable to think like that requires

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not just technical knowledge but strong market knowledge.”

Heslip recalls that when Werner first arrived at Rogers Communications, he changed the company’s construction techniques in two months. He also took the time to explain, not just to me, but the construction crews building the plant, why we should pull out the cable first and lash it backwards, rather than pay it out. His technique cost more but looked and performed better, and it wasn’t long before everyone else was doing it that way.”

Everyone agrees that Werner is a fanatic for details – and action. “He’s all about the details and expects people to understand the domain, down to the, details,” says Hofmeyr. “He says, ‘you vote with code’, meaning computer code. In other words, you vote

by doing things, not by planning. That’s the culture we’ve created and Tony is a big part of that.” Stakic says he learned how Werner thinks in their first encounter, when he was due to make a presentation to a group of cable CTOs. He was warned that “Tony is tough, brilliant and has a short attention span. I was quite intimidated and stressed out as I started my presentation,” says Stakic. “Quickly, I learned he is just very curious and very articulate and precise with his questions. I finished that meeting with a completely different perception of Tony and was quite happy that I was exposed to someone like him.”

Heslip notes that part of Werner’s ability to understand every task in the business is because Werner has worked in most of them, “He grew up in the business, starting as a bench repair person and a technician. He understands headend infrastructure

because he worked in it. In fact, he’s worked in every segment of the business and very few senior leaders have that kind of background.”

Werner’s big picture thinking is also a function of his personality. “It’s unusual to have a person who, in a vendor-customer relationship, treats everyone with the kind of respect and dignity that Tony exudes,” says ARRIS Executive Chair Bob Stanzione, who has known Werner for 25 years. “When things are good or bad, he’s always respectful. Things don’t always go according to plan, but we were always able to work it out. He looks for win-win solutions, even though he’s a very high-powered executive at a major, major company. It’s a pleasure for me to have worked with him over these years and see what he’s accomplished – and be a part of it.”

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“He conducts himself with a sense of integrity and has an uncanny ability to think from the perspective of the customer and the technician,” adds Heslip. “He takes that to heart.” Seemingly everyone who knows Werner has a story about how he took a personal

interest in his career. Liberty Global Executive Vice President / CTO Balan Nair was working at Cross Communications in 2001 when he met Werner, “He convinced my current boss at Liberty Global to interview me for the job. When I got the call, I called

Tony, and asked him what he thought. He played dumb, even though he was the matchmaker.”

“I continue to learn a lot from him, not just technically but on the personal side – how he approaches life, how he treats people, how he connects with family and friends, and how he gives his time and money. He’s just a genuinely good guy and good friend.” Many of his long-time industry colleagues have eaten dinner at his house or, like Stakic, gone fishing with him on the border of Alaska and British Columbia.

Werner is also deeply involved in KiliTech, the Kiliminjaro Technology Foundation, a non-profit he and his wife Laurel set up to bring technology and education to rural villages in Tanzania. “My wife does all the work – she’s the power behind it,” says Werner, who visits the project once or twice a year.

“We are both committed to it.” His hobbies are cars, motorcycles and photography, and he and his wife love raising German Shepherds.

Looking back on his career, Werner sees how his leadership style has continually evolved, “One piece that is very clear to me is having a compelling vision that you can sell to people, having great people to bring this vision to reality, and making sure you maintain an environment that they love to work in.” He does that by getting to know his team, and holding such events as quarterly “lab weeks,” where engineers get a week to work on whatever projects they want, followed by a day in which they show off their work. “Recognizing how brilliant and motivated and passionate some of these people are means so much,” he says.

After a career of nurturing the brilliance, motivation and passion of countless industry professionals, Werner

is most fittingly, being acknowledged for those very traits. Werner, however, chalks up his stellar career to a series of decisions -- picking a great industry, picking great companies and developing great teams – and luck. “The older you get, the more you recognize how big an ingredient luck is,” he says. Cleary, with this Lifetime Achievement Award, Werner’s colleagues are acknowledging their own good fortune. n

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Alison GibsonTreasurer

Board of Trustees

Whit AdamsonMaria BarrosPhillip L. BellAnne-Marie BergerCarl BilekJared BowenSusan BuehlerDave BurtJeremy Campbell

Chuck EmmertDavid EphraimEvelyn EscamillaLinda GiannecchiniAlison GibsonPam GrimesRobert Hammer Les HeintzFrances Hernandez

Ben HoutkooperBlaine Howerton Clifton HuntBob IsaacsonMartha C. KattanJoe KoskovicsPeter LevyCarol LyndeDanielle Mannion

John MaysEveylyn MimsMisty MontanoAllen MorrisJohn ODellJummy Olabanji Barbara Williams PerryPeggy PicoFernando Pizarro

Michael RodriguezDenise Rover Steve ShliskyDavid SolomanDick SplitstoneJim TimmermanRobin TraceyRoger VertreesAngie Weidinger

Darcy Antonellis Bob Baker Jim Bennett Robert “Barry” BennettMichael Bergeron Ray BlumenthalScott BrownTal Chalozin

Jeff CohenCraig CuttnerPeter DiIorioPatrick Donoghue Phil Dubs John FerderKen Fuller Greg GewickeyAdam Goldberg

Harry Goldberg Matthew Goldman Kenneth Gould Mark Gray Peter Guglielmino Tom HindleTom HolzmanNeil Hunt Joe Inzerillo

Paul Jensen Lisa Kehrle Tom McGowan Jeff Moore Stan Moote Paul Moroney Tom O’Hanian Mike Palmer Sassan Pejhan

Brad Plant Stephen PumpleGlenn Reitmeier Mark Risis Jamie Rockman Bruce RossMark Schubin Wes SimpsonWarren Singer

Ariel Sobelman Louise SpergelPeter Symes Michael Temmer J. Lee Thompson Mike Tsinberg Paul Turner Robin Wilson

2015-2016 Engineering Achievement CommitteeRobert P. Seidel, Chairman / Seth Haberman, Co-Chair / Charles Jablonski, Chairman Emeritus

The Staff of the National Academy of Television Arts & SciencesBob Mauro, PresidentSteve Ulrich, Senior Vice President, Sports Emmy AwardsSteve Head, Director, Sports Emmy AwardsPaul Pillitteri, Senior Vice President, PR & CommunicationsDavid Michaels, Senior Vice President, Daytime Emmy AwardsBrent Stanton, Executive Director, Daytime Emmy AwardsLuke Smith, Director, Daytime Emmy Awards & Awards DistributionDavid Winn, Senior Vice President, News & Documentary Emmy Awards Christine Chin, Director, News & Documentary Emmy Awards

Robert Lazo, Director, Chapter RelationsDelroy Binger, Director, Information TechnologyBarbara Baker, Office ManagerReservations, Angela O’Brien Berich Audiences Unlimited, Inc.Production, Steve Ulrich, ProducerProgram GuideJeff Reisman, Danny Schreiber,Don DeMaio, Debra Kaufman

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:

The National Awards Committee

Ken Aagaard Harriet Abraham Nancy Abraham

Bob AdlhochDavid Burt Chiqui Cartagena

Laurie RichJerry Romano

Kevin CokelySeth HabermanCharles H Jablonski

Linda Giannecchini, Chair

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Malachy WiengesChairman Emeritus

Susan BuehlerChair’s Representative

Harold CrumpChair’s Representative

Jim McKennaChair’s Representative

Robin TraceyPresidents’ Representative

Friday, April 28th, 2017

DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS: CREATIVE ARTS Los Angeles

Sunday, April 30th, 2017

DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS: TELECAST Los Angeles

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

SPORTS EMMY AWARDS New York

Fall 2017

NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS New York

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

For more information: Awards@emmyonline.tv