7th Annual Awards for Leadership

The 7th Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television will be presented in March at the TV of Tomorrow Show 2010 in San Francisco.

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

Please click this form to nominate your candidates:

http://www.thetvoftomorrowshow.com/leadership-awards-nomination

To send in SUPPORTING MATERIALS for your candidates, please read the instructions BELOW in the "Nominations and Selection Process" section of this page.

NOTE: This year's awards will feature several exciting new categories beyond the ones listed on the form, to be announced shortly.  

Award Categories

The Awards, which debuted in 2004 at the NCTA National Show (see below) in New Orleans, honor industry-shaping companies, organizations and individuals. They currently recognize excellence in eight categories:

• "Most Significant Impact": the company or organization that has had the most significant impact on the industry as a whole over the past year (i.e. February 17th, 2009 through February 17th, 2010).
• "Most Significant Newcomer": the company or organization that was the most significant newcomer/breakthrough player of the past year.
• "Most Significant Technology, Platform or Product": the company or organization that invented the most innovative and disruptive technology, platform or product of the past year.
• "Most Significant Content Offering": the company or organization that created the most innovative and disruptive content offering of the past year.
• "Most Innovative Design or User Interface": the company or organization that created the most innovative and disruptive design/user interface/content-navigation schema of the past year.
• "Individual Leadership I": an individual who demonstrated notable leadership in the interactive, multiplatform TV industry over the past year, and whose efforts helped move that industry forward.
• "Individual Leadership II": an individual who demonstrated notable leadership in the interactive, multiplatform TV industry over the past year, and whose efforts helped move that industry forward.
• "ITV All-Star": an individual who has a long-term track record of leadership in the interactive multiplatform television industry, and who is an appropriate candidate for membership in an ITV Hall of Fame.

Nomination and Selection Process

The winners of the awards are selected via a two-stage process: (note: readers are more than welcome to nominate their own companies or organizations, their colleagues, or even themselves); then a panel of industry experts will vote to determine the winner of each award category.

Our nomination form is now available!  Click here.

If you wish, you may send supporting materials in advance:

1. as .pdf attachments in an email to swedlow@itvt.com
2. as hyperlinks in an email to swedlow@itvt.com
3: on DVD via snail mail to the following address:

Interactive TV Today [itvt]
2959 Mission Street, Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94110

Previous Award Winners

Recent and Previous winners of the Leadership Awards and their companies at the time:

2010

Most Significant Impact: CableLabs for EBIF
Most Significant Newcomer: Arts & Entertainment Networks
Most Significant Technology, Platform or Product: Cablevision for Optimum Select
Most Innovative Content Offering: Verizon FiOS TV Widgets
Most Innovative Design or User Interface: Rovi Corporation
Individual Leadership: Sean Bunner of HSN
Individual Leadership: Will Kreth of Time Warner Cable
Individual Leadership: Avner Ronen of Boxee
ITV All-Star: List Hsia of Bravo

2009:

Most Significant Impact: NBC Universal & Ensequence for 2008 Beijing Olympics
Most Significant Newcomer: Yahoo! Widget Channel
Most Significant Technology, Apple's iPhone
Most Innovative Content Offering: Bravo's "Top Chef"
Most Innovative Design or User Interface: Netflix
Individual Leadership: Lori Schwartz
Individual Leadership: Rebecca Rusk Lim
Individual Leadership: Arthur Orduna
ITV All-Star: Dale Herigstad

2008:

Most Significant Impact: BBC for the BBC iPlayer
Most Significant Newcomer: Blu-Ray Disc Association
Most Significant Technology, Platform or Product: Sling Media
Most Innovative Content: Bravo and Navic Networks
Most Innovative Design or User Interface: Verizon FiOS
Individual Leadership: Lisa Hsia of Bravo & David Preisman of Showtime
ITV All-Star: Dalen Harrison, CEO of Ensequence

2007:

Most Significant Impact (Tie): NBC/Ensequence
Most Significant Content: Time Warner Cable
Most Significant Newcomer: Brightcove
Most Innovative Technology: Tandberg
Most Innovative Business Model: The Media Group
Most Public Spirited: American Film Institute

No Individual Leadership Awards that year

2006:

John Callahan, Time Warner Cable
Channing Dawson, Scripps Networks
Joan Gillman, Time Warner Cable
Brian Seth Hurst, The Opportunity Management Company
Gary Lauder, Lauder Partners
Karen Lennon, BeyondZ
David Preisman, Showtime Networks
Frank Sandoval, CableLabs
Timothy Wahlers, Vidiom Systems

2005:

Jonathan Boltax, Cablevision
Kevin Cohen, Turner
Don Dulchinos, CableLabs
Scott Higgins, EchoStar
Scott Newnam, GoldPocket Interactive
John P. Roberts, GSN
Ian Shepherd, Sky Interactive

2004:

Dale Herigstad, Schematic
Rick Mandler, ABC
Tim Hanlon, Denuo Group
Vincent Dureau, OpenTV
Patrick Donoghue, Cablevision
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.
Dr. H. Allen Ecker, Scientific-Atlanta