CCBE honors ATSC 3.0 test bed, broadcast careers in Toronto
The Central Canada Broadcast Engineers (CCBE) held its 74th conference awards luncheon, recognizing individuals for contributions to Canadian broadcast engineering. Awards included the Bob Norton Ambassador Award to Doug Kirk for industry relationship building, and the Engineering Excellence Award to Orus Shushko for establishing Canada's first ATSC 3.0 test bed at Humber Polytechnic, pioneering B2C lab applications and collaborative work with partners like Avtech on MIMO receivers. Additionally, Keith Bellio received the Lifetime Achievement Award for over 35 years in broadcast engineering, including significant contributions to Rogers' TV distribution and mobile systems.
Key Takeaways
- Doug Kirk received the Bob Norton Ambassador Award for relationship building within the broadcast engineering community.
- Orus Shushko won the Engineering Excellence Award for establishing Canada’s first ATSC 3.0 test bed at Humber Polytechnic.
- The Humber Polytechnic lab is described as North America’s first broadcast broadband convergence B2C lab.
- CCBE cited collaborative work with Avtech on MIMO receivers as part of the ATSC 3.0 effort.
- Keith Bellio received the Lifetime Achievement Award for more than 35 years in broadcast engineering, including work on Rogers’ TV distribution and mobile systems.
Why It Matters
The awards point to where Canadian broadcast engineering effort is concentrated right now: ATSC 3.0 testing, B2C lab development, and distribution work tied to Rogers and Humber Polytechnic. The most concrete signal is the test bed itself, plus the MIMO receiver work with Avtech, which CCBE tied to broader ATSC 3.0 applications such as connected vehicles, remote education, emergency alerting, and first-responder networks. For StreamingMeme readers, the near-term marker to watch is whether the Humber lab keeps producing partner-backed ATSC 3.0 applications and hardware work beyond the initial test bed.
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