MRC and Dielectric Added to Emmy RF Filter Award List

By Doug Lung
published

If you've been following RF Report over the last few weeks, you may have noticed that Harris and ERI announced they were receiving Technology and Engineering Emmy awards for RF filters for DTV transmission. Perhaps you’ve wondered why the other filter manufacturers were not represented. MCI and Dielectric have both developed filters that allow two adjacent channels to share one antenna. While neither company has announced they will be receiving an Emmy, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announcement of the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards does lists Dielectric and MCI as winners of Emmy Awards for ATSC Broadcast Transmission System RF Filters.

This is not the only category where multiple companies are receiving Emmy awards for the same technology. Emmy awards for monitoring for compliance standards for ATSC and DVB transport streams will be presented to Rohde and Schwarz, Tektronix, Thomson and Pixelmetrix at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2008.

Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.