WASHINGTON—TV Technology has announced its winners for the 2019 edition of Future’s Product Innovation Awards. The Product Innovation Awards recognize excellence in manufacturing of products to serve the TV/pro video and radio/online audio industries.

Here are this year’s TV Technology winners:

• Bitcentral - Non-Stop Live Digital Streaming Solution
• Blackmagic Design - ATEM Mini
• Canon U.S.A. - Canon UHD-DIGISUPER 122
• Cobalt Digital - 9992-DEC-4K-HEVC
• DVEO - Multichannel Video Synchronizer
• EditShare - QScan AQC (Automated Quality Check)
• ENCO Systems - enCaption
• Flanders Scientific - XM311K 4K HDR Mastering Monitor
• OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies - FrameDNA
• Ross Video - Ross Ultrix IP Software Defined Platfomr
• Shure - TwinPlex Subminiature Omnidirectional Lavalier/Headset Microphones
• TVU Networks - TVU One 4K
• TVU Networks - TVU G-Link 4K
• Zixi - ZEN Master

This year the PIA Awards also recognized an Innovator of the Year, selecting Mark Sizemore of Ross Video as the honoree.

Winners are selected by a panel of professional users and evaluated on criteria including innovation of concept and design, creative use of technology, price value and suitability for use in a broadcast TV/pro video or broadcast/online radio environment.

All nominated products will be featured in the PIA Program Guide.

WASHINGTON—Creators of great technology for the TV, pro video and radio/audio industries, take note: The 2019 Product Innovation Awards nomination window has been extended and is now open until Nov. 15.

The PIA program honors outstanding product introductions that serve professionals who work in the TV/pro video and radio/online audio industries. Given each autumn and now in their seventh year, the awards are presented by the media technology brands of Future, including TV Technology, Digital Video, Creative Planet Network, Government Video, Video Edge and Radio World.

[ICYMI: Take a Look at the 2018 winners and all the nominees.]

Any company that has released new and/or upgraded hardware, software or other products for these markets since Jan. 1, 2018 (the beginning of the prior calendar year) may enter.

And a new special category allows companies also to nominate a person who is worth of recognition as an Industry Innovator.

Click here to nominate a product or innovator, and to read more about the program.

NEW YORK—The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2015 NewBay Media Product Innovation Awards has been extended to Friday Nov. 6. 

The PIA program, launched in 2013, recognizes excellence in manufacturing of products to serve the television and professional video sectors, as well as the broadcast and online radio industries. Manufacturers pay a fee to be considered. Winners are selected by a panel of professional users based on the description provided by manufacturers via a nomination form. 

Evaluation criteria include innovation of concept and design, creative use of technology, price value and suitability for use in a broadcast TV/pro video or broadcast/online radio environment.

Awards will be given by TV Technology, Digital Video, Video Edge, Government Video, Radio World and Radio magazines. 

All products nominated, whether chosen for an award or not, are featured in a special Product Innovation Awards Program Guide, distributed in digital edition form in early December to the many thousands of readers of those titles. 

Nominate a product or learn more here. See last year’s Guide.

Winners will be announced shortly after Thanksgiving.