Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV consortium, will receive the highest honor in TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Awards for her tireless efforts to rally the broadcast industry around the ATSC 3.0 standard while convincing manufacturers to produce compatible sets. She’ll receive her award at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 18 at 6 p.m.

By TVN Staff | February 7, 2023 | 5:30 a.m. ET.

TVNewsCheck will present its 13th annual Women in Technology Leadership Award to Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV consortium.
The award will be presented during the NAB Show on Tuesday, April 18, at 6 p.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
For the past six years, Schelle has led Pearl TV’s effort to rally the fractious TV station group community to implement a new, advanced broadcast TV transmission standard, while convincing consumer electronics companies to produce compatible sets. The consortium of eight of the larger broadcast TV companies has helped lead the way for the industry’s ever-growing adoption of the ATSC 3.0 standard and the opportunities it opens for expanded, personalized programming and new industry revenue streams including advanced advertising and datacasting.

“Anne’s work has brought NextGen TV to an inflection point,” said TVNewsCheck Publisher and Co-Founder Kathy Haley. “Her ability to keep the industry relentlessly focused on the end goal, even as a chorus of naysayers predicted that 5G and streaming would swamp the fledgling technology, has given local broadcasters the ability to reinvent their role in a fragmenting media world.”

TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Leadership Award recognizes women who have contributed substantially toward advancing their industry technologically. It supports the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation’s Technology Apprenticeship Program, which trains, informs and recruits a diverse workforce that meets the emerging technology and engineering needs within the broadcast community.

Register here to attend the 13th annual Women in Technology Awards Presentation Ceremony and Reception at NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Previous Women in Technology Leadership Award honorees:

Sharri Berg, president, Fox Weather and COO of news and operations, Fox Television Stations
Judy Parnall, head of standards and industry, BBC
Marcy Lefkovitz, VP, technology and workflow strategy, The Walt Disney Co.
Barbara Lange, former executive director of SMPTE
Lisa Pedrogo, VP of engineering and strategic initiatives, WarnerMedia
Tish Graham, former VP of broadcast technology at ABC Owned Television Stations
Diane Tryneski, now board member and adviser to several digital technology companies
Glodina Connan-Lostanlen, now chief sales officer, Imagine Communications
Michelle Munson, now founder, Eluvio
Renu Thomas, then EVP of media operations, technology and IT at Disney ABC Television Group
Darcy Antonellis, now executive adviser, Amdocs
Wendy Aylsworth, now CEO, Walden Pond
Cindy Hutter-Cavell, senior engineer and practice manager, Cavell Mertz & Associates
Andrea Berry, now EVP operations & technology, Telemundo Enterprises and LATAM