By Elina Shatkin, February 24, 2004
The National Association of Broadcasters announced the winners of its Engineering Achievement Awards. The awards, first established in 1959, are given to industry leaders for significant contributions that have advanced broadcast engineering. The award winners will be honored at the Technology Luncheon, Wednesday, April 21 at NAB2004 in Las Vegas.
Television Engineering Achievement Award Winner - Ira Goldstone
Ira Goldstone is the technology coordinator for the Tribune Company as well as vice president/chief technology officer for Tribune Broadcasting Company. He oversees engineering and technology for the broadcasting group while coordinating projects involving common technologies across all of Tribune.
Ira is recognized as one of the most innovative technology managers in the broadcast industry. He pioneered implementation of electronic newsroom technology including digital editing, content storage and retrieval. He instituted the early adoption of digital electronic newsgathering (ENG) including one of the first COFDM-equipped helicopters in the country which allowed a number of Tribune stations to provide breaking news coverage from locations previously unreachable with analog ENG equipment
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He is the chairman of the Media Security and Reliability Council Task Force on Future Technologies/Digital Solutions. He is the recipient of Broadcasting and Cable’s 2001 “Technology Leadership Award” and is a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In addition, he is a member of the board of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and was the original chair of the ATSC Applications Sub-Committee.
Previously, Ira was Tribune Broadcasting vice president/engineering and technology. From 1983 to 1994, Ira was director/broadcast operations and engineering at KTLA-TV, Los Angeles. Before joining KTLA, he was vice president/corporate engineering for Standard Communications, Salt Lake City, and director/technical services at WCVB-TV, Boston, from 1972 to 1981.
NAB2004 takes place April 17 - 22 in Las Vegas (exhibits open April 19). It is the world's largest electronic media show covering the development, delivery and management of professional video and audio content across all mediums.
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