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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:11:00 GMT
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- Subject: WRTH Industry Awards
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- The following press release was received 3 January 1992.
- Additional data will be in the 1993 WRTH, now on the way to your
- favorite vendor.
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- RESULTS: THE WRTH INDUSTRY AWARDS
-
- This is the fifth year of a prestigious award scheme organlsed
- by the World Radio TV Handbook. In over 40 years, the WRTH has
- received many awards itself as the Industry reference standard
- in the field of International broadcasting. We believe in
- recognising excellence in other parts of the international
- broadcasting industry. We hope these will act as a stimulus to
- provide the market place with even better products.
-
- At this moment, thousands of hours of programming are being
- broadcast from stations round the world. It is NOT our intention
- to give awards to the programme makers, or individual stations.
- To be fair we would have to understand a multitude of languages
- and have an in depth knowledge of the studio facilities
- available to the producer. The WRTH is a reference book, and we
- do not feel it is right to pick out a broadcaster as being the
- "best". In the equipment field, however, we do think that awards
- are needed.
-
- The main WRTH awards have been given in three categories this
- year. Here are the results:
-
- * Best Portable Receiver 1992: Sony ICF-SW55. This new
- receiver is not the most sophisticated in the Sony
- range, but it combines a number of useful tuning
- features, versatile text based memories and good
- performance into a handy package. We encourage Sony to
- develop their receiver technology further to balance
- recent innovations in the field of tuning convenience.
-
- * Best Communications Receiver 1992: Yaesu FRG-100.
- Although only just launched on the market, Yaesu has
- succeeded in bringing improved technology and features
- within the price range of a much wider group of
- short-wave broadcast listeners. It has been a long time
- since Yaesu revamped their broadcast receiver. But for
- many listeners it will be worth the wait! A good package
- at an affordable price.
-
- * Most Innovative Receiver Designer 1992: Lowe
- Electronics. The English company of Lowe Electronics
- have already won an award for their HF series of
- receivers. But we feel they deserve another award, this
- time for their innovative design and back-to-basics
- approach to receiver technology, especially on the new
- HF-150. Lowe's chief designer John Thorpe has surprised
- many observers who proclaimed the European receiver
- business to be a thing of the past. Lowe's dedication to
- creating high performance and easy to use receivers is
- at last getting wider recognition.
-
- But that's not all, The WRTH editorial team decided to present a
- special fourth award. This is not to a receiver manufacturer but
- an organlsation which has done a great deal to report on the
- world of broadcasting year after year. On September 17th 1992
- editor of the World Radio Handbook, Andrew Sennitt presented BBC
- Monitoring with an award marking two decades of co-operation
- between the two organisations. We value the work being done by
- the WBI staff in Caversham under the leadership of Richard
- Measham and we thought this anniversary was worth marking by
- presenting them with the award for Special Contributions to
- International Broadcasting.
-
- Suggestions from readers for next year's awards are always
- welcomed by the editors. These awards are not restricted to any
- country, or language.
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- Suggestions should be sent to the WRTH editorial offices in
- Amsterdam, not to me.
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