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2014 Engineering
Achievement Award Winners Announced
Each year, NAB
recognizes the work of two exceptional broadcast engineers –
one working in Radio and one in Television – with its Engineering
Achievement Awards. This year the Radio award recipient is Jeff
Littlejohn of Clear Channel Media, and the Television award is presented
to Robert Seidel of CBS. They will be honored at the NAB Show Technology
Luncheon on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 in Las Vegas.
First established
in 1959, the Engineering Achievement Awards are given to individuals
who are nominated by their peers for significant contributions to
advancing the state of the art in broadcast engineering.
The 2014
NAB Radio Engineering Achievement Award
As executive vice president, Engineering and Systems Integration
at Clear Channel, Jeff Littlejohn oversees all technical aspects
of the company’s Media & Entertainment division. In his
twenty-plus years in radio engineering, he has been a leader in
technical improvements for broadcast radio and active on many industry
committees. Littlejohn has led innovative projects such as the Total
Traffic + Weather Network, and Clear Channel’s Engineering
Co-op and Market Engineering Management Development program, which
trains new radio engineers and enhances the skills of existing engineers
to help meet the ever-growing technology support requirements of
radio stations. He is Vice Chair of the NAB Labs Radio Technology
Committee and also currently chairs the NAB Broadcast Engineering
Conference Committee.
 The
2014 NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award
Robert Seidel began his career with CBS in 1976 and is now vice
president, Engineering and Advanced Technology. He has been an industry
leader in the development of HDTV, the transition to digital TV,
and many other innovative projects, including pioneering work in
portable satellite uplink systems used in worldwide newsgathering,
for which he received a Technical Emmy award. He serves in leadership
positions for SMPTE and ATSC, chairs the Engineering Achievement
Committee for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
(NATAS), and has presented numerous technical papers at industry
conferences, including the NAB Show. He is a member of several NAB
technical committees, including the NAB Labs TV Technology Committee.
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