Sony’s Contribution to NMOS, the Industry-Standard Control Specifications for Networked Live Production, Honored with Prestigious Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award

Sony Corporation has received the 77th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its contributions to Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS), alongside AMWA, BBC, and Streampunk Media. NMOS helps broadcast and live production teams discover, connect, and control audio and video equipment from different manufacturers, making it easier to build interoperable IP-based production workflows.

Since joining NMOS development in 2016, Sony has supported the standard by open-sourcing its reference implementation and working with industry partners to improve interoperability across broadcast systems. With NMOS integrated into products across its Networked Live portfolio, Sony continues to support more flexible, scalable, and streamlined production environments.

Sony Corporation has been named a recipient of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ (NATAS) 77th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its contributions to Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS). The award is shared jointly with the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and Streampunk Media Ltd. (Streampunk Media), recognizing their collective contributions to establishing NMOS as the industry-standard control framework for networked live production.

NMOS is a suite of open specifications developed under AMWA that enables unified discovery, registration, and control of video and audio equipment—such as cameras and monitors—from different manufacturers in networked live production environments, including broadcast studios and broadcast vehicles. As the broadcast industry has accelerated its transition to IP-based workflows, NMOS has become the standard for ensuring interoperability in multi-vendor deployments. Sony has embedded NMOS across a wide range of its Networked Live production products, including HDC Series cameras, HDCE Series camera extension adaptors, MLS-X1 and XVS Series switchers, BVM Series monitors, Nevion VideoIPath media orchestration platform and Virtuoso software-defined media node.

“By open-sourcing our reference implementation and working closely with AMWA, the BBC, Streampunk Media, and the wider industry, we have helped establish an ecosystem where multi-vendor interoperability is no longer a challenge, but an expectation,” said Ryoichi Sakuragi, Head of Real Content Solutions Business, Sony. “This recognition reflects our long-standing commitment to open standards and collaborative innovation in the industry, in pursuit of scalable, flexible and simplified production workflow to further empower creators and shape the future of content production.”

Since joining AMWA’s NMOS standards development activities in 2016, Sony has played an active and leading role in advancing an open and interoperable ecosystem for networked live production. In particular, Sony’s decision to release its NMOS implementation as open-source software and cultivate it as the industry’s reference implementation has enabled equipment vendors worldwide to develop, validate, and deploy interoperable solutions more easily. This initiative has served as a key catalyst in accelerating both the adoption of NMOS and interoperability across the broadcast industry. In recognition of these significant technical and standardization contributions, Sony was elected to the AMWA Board of Directors in 2017 and has continued to play a leading role in shaping and advancing the NMOS ecosystem. Looking ahead, Sony will contribute to the further advancement of the broadcast industry through the evolution of its technologies and collaboration with industry partners.

The Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards are awarded to a living individual, a company, or a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement in existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television. A Committee of highly qualified engineers working in television considers technical developments in the industry and determines which, if any, merit an award. The 2026 awards will be presented during a ceremony on Oct. 14, 2026, in Los Angeles.

As a company, Sony has received numerous Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards over the years, including recognition for its 4K system camera (HDC-4300) in 2016, a Corporate Award in 2017 for its long-standing contributions to the advancement of the broadcast industry, and its OLED critical evaluation monitors (BVM series) in 2021.