The 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards
The 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was celebrated on Saturday, August 23 at the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award was given to Burlington, ON-based Evertz Technologies Limited, a design, manufacture and marketing company for video and audio infrastructure.
The Philo is an award to honor the company whose contributions have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering over a long period of time.
Content creators, broadcasters, specialty channels and television service providers utilize Evertz’ technologies to support complex multi-channel digital and high definition television broadcast environments.
The award was presented to Evertz’s vice-president of engineering, Alan Lambshead, and the company’s vice-president of sales in the United States, Joe Cirincione.