Manolo Romero, Iris Award for Technology from the Television Academy

The Board of Directors recognizes its essential contribution to the international improvement of television broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Romero Canela will receive this award next Thursday the 25th during the Iris Awards Ceremony broadcast live by TVE's La 2.

The Board of Directors of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts has decided in its last meeting to award the Special Iris Award for Technology to academic Manuel Romero Canela for his essential contribution to the improvement of television broadcasts after almost half a century dedicated to the Olympic Games (summer and winter).

With the London 2012 team, Romero has participated in 12 summer games and in the last 8, since Los Angeles 1984, he has been the person in charge.

En su trayectoria profesional Romero Canela ha sido reconocido con 8 Premios Emmy y en la pasada edición de estos prestigiosos galardones la National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) le concedió el Premio Toda una Vida (Lifetime Achievement Award) por su “implicación en la cobertura televisiva de todos los Juegos Olímpicos desde los Juegos de México 68”.

A life dedicated to broadcast

Born in Seville. He is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. After entering by competitive examination, he began his professional career in the Technical Directorate of TVE in 1965. Very soon he was able to work on international sporting events such as the Olympic Games. of Mexico in '68 incorporated into the EBU/EBU operational group. At the World Cup in Spain in 1982, he was the top technical manager, whose indisputable success catapulted him to work with the American network ABC as head of the European Operations Directorate based in Paris.

He was later named ABC's International Operations Manager for the 84 Los Angeles Games. For this work he was awarded the Emmy Award for best television coverage for sports. Returning to Europe placed him in charge of the Olympic Games Operation. Barcelona-92, after which his pilgrimage around the world has led him, among many other positions, to be the head of the 94 World Cup in the USA, the Olympic Games. in Atlanta (96), Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012), as well as in other Winter Olympic Games and countless world championships in athletics and other sports.

Since its creation in 2003, he was General Director of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the company formed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for television coverage of the Olympic Games, voluntarily leaving the first line of executives at the end of 2012 to become vice president of the company.

He is currently TV Advisor to the IOC, several international federations of different sports and president of the ISB (International Sport Broadcasting) company.

In January 2013 he received recognition from the United States National Television Academy in Technology and Engineering, which awarded him the Lifetime Emmy Award at a Ceremony held at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas.

Manolo Romero is familiarly known as this by those responsible for sports TV, both technicians, journalists, producers, filmmakers,…. from all over the world.

In 2006 the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts awarded him the Talent Award.