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Why Did India's Broadcast Engineer Get a Big Award? 🎖️

Nandakumar Singh, an engineer for India's public television, won a top prize from the Asia‑Pacific Broadcasting Union.

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The award is called the Asia‑Pacific Broadcasting Union Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award 2026.

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The award was presented during a five‑day gathering of broadcasters in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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He created an automatic TV‑show scheduling program used by many stations.

He also built a low‑cost slow‑motion replay tool for national sports events.

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engineer

someone who designs and fixes technical equipment

broadcast

sending TV or radio programs to many people at the same time

innovation

a new and useful idea or device

automated

working by itself without needing a person to control it

slow‑motion

showing video slower than it happened in real life

replay

showing a part of a video again

Asia‑Pacific

countries around the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

gathering

a large meeting of people

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