NHK’s Kubota awarded highest SMPTE medal
September 27, 2013
By Chris Forrester
The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) has given its highest award, ‘The Progress Medal’, to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK’s R&D director Keiichi Kubota in recognition for his service.
The SMPTE citation reads: “Dr Kubota has earned the 2013 Progress Medal Award in recognition of his 37-year career in television science and technology and his significant contributions in the areas of HDTV standardization activities for SMPTE, ATSC, and the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television. The award also recognizes his contribution to the rollout of NHK’s digital satellite broadcasting service and, most recently, the standardization of UHDTV in ITU-R and coverage of the 2012 London Olympics in Super Hi-Vision.”
The award, along with other prizewinners, will be recognised on October 24th at SMPTE’s Honors & Awards Ceremony.
Other posts by :
- Suitors eye Globalstar
- SpaceX: IPO offer in days?
- Forecast: SpaceX tracking to $20bn revenue in 2026
- EchoStar’s Dish restructures debt obligations
- AsiaSat hits Zee and JioStar with legal actions
- Nvidia unveils orbital chip/computer for AI and data
- Space Sector: ‘Profound Acceleration in 2026’
- Starcloud wants 88,000 satellites