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| 03 November 2009 |
RTS Announces Shortlist For 2009 Innovation Awards |
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The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain's leading forum for television and related media, has announced the shortlist for the 2009 RTS Innovation Awards.
KEO Digital, Mint Digital and Channel 4's Landshare, which offers a solution for people who want to grow fruit and vegetables but have no access to land, is shortlisted for the User-Generated Content Award, alongside BBC Wales' Digital Storytelling project created by Gareth Morlais and Karen Lewis.
Mint Digital is nominated again in this category for Sexperience/The Sex Experience Show, with Cheetah Television for Channel 4.
BBC Research & Development is twice short-listed in the Raising the Bar category for its High Frame Rate Television Experiment and Ingex Automated Tapeless Production. BBC Sport and Can Communicate (in association with Inition and Axis) are also in the running with Rugby Live: Calcutta Cup, the world's first 3D satellite broadcast. This category awards a technique, technology, production device, or programme which sets a new "gold standard" of expectations.
And the BBC and BSkyB go head-to-head for the Under the Bonnet Award, which recognises a significant advance in the way content is managed or transferred, with BBC PNg (Portable Newsgathering Innovation) and Sky+HD Guide. BBC Research & Development is also shortlisted for its contribution to DVB-T2 (Freeview HD).
The RTS Innovation Awards aim to recognise outstanding achievement in the development of new technologies in distribution, production and manipulation. The award categories are designed to highlight the growing interdependence of technology and content, reaching out to new users and new ways of communicating.
The Awards planning committee is chaired by Jeff Henry, formerly Chief Executive of ITV Consumer. The Awards dinner, which takes place on November 10, will be hosted by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, founders of Lastminute.com.
Jeff Henry, Chair of the RTS Innovation Awards, said: "The standard this year has been exceptionally high. The shortlist of hopefuls is a testament to the outstanding level of innovative ideas currently within the media industry.
"Technology is constantly evolving and it's down to work like this that the industry continues to move forward and push new boundaries. The importance of these prestigious awards is illustrated by the unprecedented and magnificent cross industry support, even in a challenging business environment."
The shortlisted categories are:
On Target Award- Advanced Text-To-Speech Technology - Ocean Blue Software with RNIB, STMicroelectronics and TW Electronics
- Bugbears - Magic Lantern Productions and Studio Liddell for BC Children's
- Beamups - The Online Global News Marketplace - www.beamups.com - Beamups
Raising The Bar Award- BBC Research & Development - High Frame Rate Television Experiment - July - September 2008 - BBC Research & Development
- Ingex Automated Tapeless Production - BBC Research & Development
- The World's First 3D Satellite Broadcast: Rugby Live: Calcutta Cup - Scotland v England - BBC Sport Co-Production with Can Communicate in Association with Inition and Axis
Under The Bonnet Award- BBC PNg (Portable Newsgathering Innovation) - BBC with Technical Assistance from BLStream
- Contribution of BBC R&D to DVB-T2 (Freeview HD) - BBC Research & Development
- Sky+HD Guide - BSkyB
User-Generated Content Award- Digital Storytelling - Gareth Morlais and Karen Lewis for BBC Wales
- Landshare - KEO Digital, Mint Digital and Channel 4
- Sexperience/The Sex Experience Show - Mint Digital & Cheetah Television for Channel 4
(KMcA/BMcC)
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