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2023 Emmy Award

ITU has won the 2023 Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy Award for its Recommendation ITU-R BT.2100 on High-Dynamic-Range Television or HDR-TV.

The Recommendation provides international specifications and standards that have enabled HDR-TV to become widely available and enhanced viewers visual experience through significantly fuller, richer, and more realistic images.

The Recommendation has been developed by the ITU Radiocommunication Sector Study Group 6.


 
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2012 Emmy Award

On 12 January 2012, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau received the Technology and Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the “Standardization of Loudness Metering for Use in Broadcast Audio”.

Recommendation ITU-R BS.1770 on “Algorithms to measure audio programme loudness and true-peak audio level” which was developed over a ten-year period was credited as outstanding and showing excellence in engineering creativity.

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1983 Emmy Award

In 1983, the CCIR (now ITU-R) received the Television Academy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the development of a common world standard for digital television studios.

Recommendation ITU-R BT.601 ´Studio encoding parameters of digital television for standard 4:3 and wide screen 16:9 aspect ratios’, was credited as an Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development.

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Other Awards

October 2007

Honorary plaque presented to ITU-R on the 25th Anniversary of the introduction of High-Definition Television in Europe
 
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December 1999

Award presented to ITU-R Study Group 11 for its contribution to International Standardization of Television Broadcasting
June 1989

Award presented to CCIR for its contribution to Television Broadcasting