Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:11:00 GMT
Reply-To:     "Thomas R. Sundstrom" <0002446376@MCIMAIL.COM>
From:         "Thomas R. Sundstrom" <0002446376@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      WRTH Industry Awards

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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