Proud of NCKU!! Our Alumni Chuan-Min (David) Tung Received "The Emmy Award"

Tung who graduated from the Dept. of Foreign Language
received an award `The Best Technical Team Remote in 2008: David Tung` from the
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) KPRC-TV Houston Channel 2. "The award was
decided by Television Academy of the USA regarding the outstanding performance
of our team at the swimming and diving events of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games,"
said NCKU alumni David Tung. This is also a great honor of NCKU.
David Tung worked in NBC KPRC-TV Houston Channel 2 on behalf of the United
States to obtain exclusive Beijing 2008 Olympic Games broadcasting rights for
the effectiveness of the NBC to conduct the live broadcasting with professional
performance. He received "The Emmy Award" with his outstanding professional and
live broadcasting technology, and was presented with a trophy and a medal.
David Tung and his assistants faced at least eight broadcasting screens at the
same time every day for 4 weeks for live broadcasting during the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games. They went to the venue around 4 o`clock in the morning, and set
up well all related live broadcasting equipment with NBC and all international
media coverage of multinational engineering staff and they finished around 11
o`clock at night. "I slept three to fours hours at the most, and walked all the
time everyday with broken shoes because of the wide area of Beijing Olympic
Village. I was too busy to meet my brother-in-law in Beijing," said David Tung.
His wife, Margaret Tung also commented that her husband was busy working in live
broadcasting programs so many years while she watched with their children and
grandchildren including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
About NCKU Alumni, Chuan-Min (David) Tung
Mr. Chuan-Min (David) Tung graduated from the Dept. of Foreign Language of NCKU
in 1962, and after one year of military service, he came to the United States in
1963 and changed his major to television engineering. He got his master's degree
in Radio and Television from St. Louis University in 1966, and then transferred
to the University of Missouri-Columbia to pursue a PhD degree. However, without
finishing his PhD degree, he was offered a permanent position at the local TV
station where he met his wife, Margaret who at the time was taking some
television classes. Now he is 69 years old living in Austin, Texas with two
children and three grandchildren.
Mr. Tung has been working in the television industry for more than 40 years. He
has worked with six television stations in different capacities around the
country. In 1983, he moved to Houston with his whole family and has been working
at KPRC-TV, Houston Channel 2 in the area of maintenance engineering. In the
last 20 years, he also had many opportunities to work with all the big networks
such as NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN and so on to do all kinds of nationally televised
sport events, such as the World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Finals.
"Last year NBC Network had invited me to work at the swimming and diving events
at the Beijing Olympics for about a month. My job was to set up all the cameras
for the events as well as to adjust all the cameras and make sure all pictures
that came through the cameras were looking great. Apparently the Television
Academy of the USA thinks that our team at the swimming and diving events did an
outstanding job and voted us `The Best Technical Team Remote in 2008,`" said Mr.
Tung.
About The Sports Emmy Awards
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production
award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on
entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards
(for film), Grammy Awards (for music) and Tony Awards (for stage).
They are presented in various sectors of the television industry, including
entertainment programming, news and documentary shows, and sports programming.
As such, the awards are presented in various area-specific ceremonies held
annually throughout the year. The best known of these ceremonies are the
Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in American primetime television
programming (excluding sports), and the Daytime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence
in American daytime television programming.
Three related but separate organizations present the Emmy Awards:
A. the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) honors national prime time
entertainment excluding sports;
B. the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) recognizes
daytime, sports, news and documentary programming, and;
C. the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors all
programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
The Emmys are presented in various area-specific ceremonies held annually
throughout the calendar year, with each having their own set of nominating and
voting processes including Primetime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Sports
Emmy Awards, Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards, Regional Emmy Awards,
International Emmy Awards, Student Emmy Awards, Other Emmy Awards such as
National TV newscasts and documentaries, Business and financial reporting,
Public Service - for public service announcements and programming to "advance
the common good", The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award - awarded by the Academy Board
of Governors and The Governors Award honors the achievements of an individual,
company or organization whose works stand out with the immediacy of current
achievement. Each ceremony also has its own set of award categories, and it is
not uncommon for them to have some of the same names.
The Sports Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American sports television
programming, including sports-related series, live coverage of sporting events,
and best sports announcers. The awards ceremony, presenting Emmys from the
previous calendar year, is usually held on a Spring Monday night, sometime in
the last two weeks in April or the first week in May. The Sports Emmy Awards are
all given away at one ceremony, unlike the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime
Emmy Awards, which hold a "Creative Arts" ceremony in which Emmys are given to
behind-the-scenes personnel.
The first Emmy for "Best Sports Coverage" was handed out at the second annual
Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1950, where KTLA, a local television station
in Los Angeles, won the award for coverage of baseball. The following year,
another Los Angeles-based station, KNBH, won an Emmy for their coverage of the
Los Angeles Rams American football team. At the seventh Primetime Emmys in 1955,
NBC became the first major network to win a Sports Emmy Award for its series,
the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.
In 1979, an Emmys exclusively for sports coverage was held for the first time at
the Rainbow Room in New York City. Winners included golf announcer Jack
Whitaker, and CBS's The NFL Today. The ninth annual Sports Emmy Awards, hosted
by actors Alan Thicke and Joan Van Ark and held on July 13, 1988, became the
first Sports Emmys ceremony to be televised; the live telecast was syndicated
nationwide by Raycom Sports. Dennis Miller hosted in the 12th Sports Emmys in
1991, which was broadcast on ESPN. At that inaugural ceremony in 1979, there
were 12 categories. At the 2007 ceremony, there will be 30 awards including
"Outstanding Technical Team Remote."
About National Cheng Kung University (NCKU):
NCKU is located in the ancient city of Tainan, the historical and ancient
cultural capital city of Taiwan, which boasts more than 50 national relics
sanctioned by the government and is approximately 250 kilometers south of
Taipei. It is connected to all major cities in Taiwan by the recently initiated
state-of-the-art Taiwan High Speed Rail. Further, this historical heritage is
the pride of Tainan City and represents a rich cultural resource to NCKU. The
technological sectors in the Southern Taiwan Science Park offer students at NCKU
with a stage to apply what they have learned into practice.
With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over
130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme
successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and
are ready and willing to assist the 22,000 academic selective students and 1200
academic faculty members. Currently, both have an international flavor, with
enormous regional support, and there is a permeating culture of proactive
intellectual growth on the world`s stage. NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved
from its engineering genesis into a powerful and comprehensive research
international university in the Asia Pacific.
Since NCKU`s establishment in 1931, it has developed into a research intensive
and comprehensive university with integrated academic fields in nine colleges:
Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience &
Biotechnology. NCKU currently offers 40 undergraduate programs (excluding the
Program of Bachelor`s Degree), 78 master`s degree programs, 54 doctoral programs
and 20 master`s degree programs for working professionals.