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[Monday at NAB]
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Hollywood ‘Player’ To Launch the NAB Show
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by James E. O’Neal,
~ April 14, 2008
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TV TECHNOLOGY
This NAB Show marks a pivotal year in broadcasting, as it is the last show before the ball drops on U.S. analog television and a new age of digital broadcasting is ushered in.
Today’s “State of the Industry Address,” Opening, 9 a.m., officially opens the NAB Show and provides NAB President and CEO David K. Rehr a chance to review the past and position broadcasters for the future. The event is sponsored by Accenture.
In his third annual address, Rehr plans to highlight how broadcasters are seizing opportunities in the “digital age,” along with regulatory challenges coming from Washington, D.C., and a fast-changing and evolving global marketplace.
Rehr is also planning to update broadcasters on the initiatives and issues that will impact the future of the broadcasting business. These include the digital television transmission (which is only a matter of 10 months away now), the “Radio 2020” cooperative initiative between the NAB, RAB and HD Digital Radio Alliance, as well as performance tax issues.
Critically acclaimed actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins will highlight the program with a keynote address.
Having made his acting debut in 1972, Robbins earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of the amoral studio chief in Robert Altman’s “The Player.” For “Mystic River,” directed by Clint Eastwood, he was honored with an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As a filmmaker he wrote, directed and produced “Cradle Will Rock” and “Dead Man Walking,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
Another part of this morning’s program is notable, as longtime broadcaster and CBS veteran Charles Osgood will be honored with the NAB Distinguished Service Award.
Osgood is a longtime fixture at the network and is anchor of “CBS Sunday Morning” on CBS Television and writes and anchors the daily “The Osgood File” for CBS Radio. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a recipient’s significant and lasting contributions to the broadcasting industry.
Osgood has been with CBS News since 1971 and has also anchored and reported for the network’s “CBS Morning News” and “CBS Evening News” programs. He’s anchored “CBS News Sunday Morning” since 1994.
Osgood has been referred to as the “poet-in-residence” at CBS News, frequently writing and injecting his own brand of poetry into his broadcasts. He is a prolific writer, having authored five books. The most recent of these is entitled “See You on the Radio” and was published in 1999. He was termed “one of the last great broadcast writers” by his “CBS News Sunday Morning” predecessor, the late Charles Kuralt.
He is the recipient of three George Foster Peabody Awards. One of these (1997) was presented in connection with his work on “CBS News Sunday Morning.” The other two (1985 and 1986) were awarded to Osgood for a CBS Radio weekly public affairs series, “Newsmark.”
His show, “The Osgood File,” has resulted in five “Best in the Business Awards” from the Washington Journalism Review. He has also been honored with a 1999 Radio Mercury Award, an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher’s 1996 President’s Award, given for outstanding support and coverage of music creators. In 1993, Osgood received the Marconi Radio Award.
Osgood is also a performing musician, having played the piano and banjo with the New York Pops and Boston Pops orchestras. Another of his performances was with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Early in his career, Osgood served as the general manager of WHCT in Hartford, Conn. WHCT had the distinction of being America’s first “pay” television station. Osgood also worked as manager and program director at the WGMS(FM) radio operation in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining CBS News, Osgood worked as an anchor/ reporter at New York’s WCBS News Radio 88 operation and also was a general assignment reporter at ABC News.
The International Broadcasting Excellence Awards will also be presented this morning.
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