The broadcasters of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union between them provide TV and Radio to about three billion people. Their 2008 annual assembly took place this week in Bali, Indonesia. EBU TECHNICAL was invited to participate.
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One of the events was that Takeo Shimizu, long time participant in ABU and ITU activtities, and friend of EBU TECHNICAL, was given a Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award on his retirement (see photo). Mr Shimizu received the award for his contribution to the development of production technologies and his long standing contributions to the ABU. |
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Tzunami
One is how to provide emergency warning of impending disasters. Five years ago this Christmas, hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless by a Tzunami. What should be done to provide warnings in future? Should sophisticated systems be used? Yes, but equally it seems that last time, the only way to reach those morooned, on the hills of Indonesia, was to use medium wave radio. High technology is not always what is best.
For more information on EBU TECHNICAL's link with the ABU, please contact: David Wood (EBU) .