NAB Technology Awards
About the Awards
The Radio and Television Engineering Achievement Awards are presented to individuals for their outstanding accomplishments in the radio or television broadcast industry, respectively. The Digital Leadership Award honors an individual at a broadcast station, group or network who has transformed a traditional broadcast business to succeed on digital media platforms.
2026 Winners
Bert Goldman
Engineering Achievement Award for Radio
Bert Goldman, owner and president of Goldman Engineering Management, is the recipient of the 2026 Radio Engineering Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of leadership and innovation in broadcast engineering.
A nationally respected expert in AM and FM spectrum analysis, Goldman has helped broadcasters improve performance, expand coverage and enhance asset value. His work spans station construction, technical operations and regulatory compliance, and he is widely regarded for his deep expertise in FCC rules, FM booster and translator engineering and directional AM antenna system design.
He previously served as corporate vice president of Engineering for ABC/Disney Radio Division, Nationwide Communications, Patterson Broadcasting and Shamrock Broadcasting. Over his career, he has overseen upgrades in most of the top 25 U.S. markets and managed the design and construction of more than 50 radio stations.
A member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE) and the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), Goldman has also been active with the NAB National Radio Systems Committee and the NAB Radio Technical Committee.
Harvey Arnold
Engineering Achievement Award for Television
Harvey Arnold, senior vice president of engineering for Sinclair Broadcast Group, is the recipient of the 2026 Television Engineering Achievement Award for his leadership and long-standing contributions to advancing broadcast technology.
Since joining Sinclair in 1998, Arnold has led transmission engineering operations across the company’s television stations, with a strong focus in recent years on accelerating the industry’s transition to ATSC 3.0. He is also working with NAB and industry partners to develop and implement the Broadcast Positioning System (BPS), coordinating field testing at Sinclair ATSC 3.0 stations and promoting awareness of the technology’s potential.
Prior to Sinclair, Arnold spent 17 years with North Carolina Public Television, managing and expanding engineering and transmission operations for one of the nation’s largest statewide public television networks. He also participated in activities of the FCC Advisory Committee for Advanced Television Service (ACATS), helping test the ATSC DTV standard in the field and guide the rollout of digital television in the United States.
Arnold is a SMPTE Fellow and member of the SMPTE Board of Editors. A former chairman of the NAB TV Technology Committee, he remains active in ATSC, SMPTE, SBE and AFCCE. He is also a recipient of the Broadcasting & Cable Technical Leadership Award.
Mike Rosellini
Digital Leadership Award
Promoted to his current role in 2023 after serving for a decade as vice president digital operations, Mike Rosellini leads teams responsible for product development, engineering, data and operations across Hearst Television’s station-branded news websites and mobile apps, as well as its Very Local direct to consumer streaming platform.
He has overseen multiple end-to-end product redesigns, CMS migrations and continuous modernization of the company’s digital video, data and advertising technology stacks. Notably, Rosellini and his team designed, built and launched a full suite of OTT and CTV applications in-house that power Hearst Television’s expansion into streaming under the Very Local brand. Rosellini also represents Hearst Television’s digital interests within key industry organizations, including the National Association of Broadcasters and Pearl TV, supporting collaborative innovation efforts such as NextGen TV.
Currently, Rosellini is playing a key technology role on the Hearst team working to help the advertising industry understand the fundamentally brand-safe attributes of local-news inventory through better AI driven contextual signals.
Since joining Hearst in 2008 to build its first in-house software engineering team, Rosellini has helped shape the company’s digital strategy from the ground up. An active mentor for colleagues, Rosellini is an alumnus of the Hearst Management Institute, an executive leadership training program.