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04/06/2020
NAB Urges FCC to Protect Broadcasters from White Space Interference
WASHINGTON-NAB, in reply to comments regarding the FCC's TV white space (TVWS) device proposed rulemaking notice, told the commission that consistent with P...
04/06/2020
AT&T Closes Distant-Signal Deals With Networks
DALLAS-AT&T has shared with TVT's sister publication B+C that it has reached deals with all of the major broadcast networks, except for ABC, so that DirecTV...
04/06/2020
CES 2021 Plans for In-Person Conference
ARLINGTON, Va.-CES 2021 has every intention to take place under the neon lights of Las Vegas once again, according to an announcement from the Consumer Technolo...
04/06/2020
Connected TV Usage Keeps Momentum as Traditional TV Viewing Normalizes
NEW YORK-The amount of time people spent watching connected TVs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a growth, along with overall media use. Now, as r...
04/06/2020
Disney+ Is Fastest Gaining Streaming Service Amid Pandemic
LONDON-The popularity of Disney has only increased during the coronavirus pandemic, as shelter-at-home orders have seen viewers increase their TV consumption h...
04/06/2020
NATE Warns Members About 5G Global Protest Day
WATERTOWN, S.D.-NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, has sent out an advisory bulletin to its members regarding the 5G Global Protes...
03/06/2020
Roku Channel Adds 100 Free Linear Channels
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Roku has expanded its free live/linear channel lineup on The Roku Channel, adding more than 100 channels as of June 1 in the U.S. The addition...
03/06/2020
APTS Voices Support for Broadcast Internet'
WASHINGTON-Allowing public broadcasters to offer Broadcast Internet services via ATSC 3.0 will help them enhance and expand the public service missions for co...
03/06/2020
ATSC Reports Progress on 3.0 Automotive Applications
WASHINGTON, D.C.-A new report from the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) says significant progress has been made in automotive applications for ATSC ...
03/06/2020
Locast Debuts in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla.-Locast, a nonprofit streaming provider of local broadcast TV, has added Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, Fla., to its list of TV markets where ...
03/06/2020
SBE Accepting Applications for New Executive Director
INDIANAPOLIS-The Society of Broadcast Engineers announced that it will be accepting applications for the position of executive director through June, as the org...
03/06/2020
Media Plays Role in Perpetuating Stereotypes, Say TV Viewers
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.-A majority of TV viewers believe that the coverage from the media on issues like the ongoing protests over the killing of George Floyd plays ...
03/06/2020
Inside TV Technology's June Issue
40 years ago, Ted Turner's dream of a 24-hour-per-day news service was being transformed into a reality by a small army of construction workers, broadcast e...
02/06/2020
Long-Time LPTV Champion Mike Gravino Dies
Mike Gravino, managing director of the Next Gen TV Coalition, died May 30, succumbing to pancreatic cancer after entering hospice care. Gravino, a champion of ...
02/06/2020
Comcast, Charter, ViacomCBS Partner on Blockgraph
NEW YORK-The trio of Comcast, Charter Communications and ViacomCBS have announced that they will share equal ownership of Blockgraph, a software platform design...
02/06/2020
FCC Speeds Up C-Band Clearing for 5G
WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced that the opening of C-band spectrum for 5G services will go ahead on an accelerated timeline, having received com...
02/06/2020
PSSI Utilizes C-Band to Transmit The Match II'
VAN NUYS, Calif.-Helping to bring one of the first major live sporting events back to TV, PSSI Global Services used C-band transmission vehicles to provide prim...
02/06/2020
SMPTE Updates IMF Standards Documents
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers have released several revisions of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standards doc...
01/06/2020
MVPDs' Retrans Complaints Have Little Merit, NAB Tells FCC
WASHINGTON-MVPDs' arguments that broadcasters have undue bargaining power when it comes to retransmission consent negotiations hold little water, according ...
01/06/2020
Cox Media Group Appoints Daniel York as New CEO
ATLANTA-Daniel York, the former senior executive vice president and chief content officer for AT&T and DirecTV, has been tapped as the new president and CEO of ...
01/06/2020
Best of Show 2020 Program Guide Now Available
WASHINGTON-TV Technology shared its Best of Show Special Edition Award winners earlier this month, but you can find out more about all of the companies that par...
01/06/2020
CNN Celebrates 40 Years
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In the springtime of 1980, Americans were getting accustomed to Post-It Notes, and a few were just starting to twist Rubik's Cubes. Out in...
01/06/2020
As Protests Turn into Riots, TV Becomes Part of the News
WASHINGTON-As protests over police brutality engulfed the United States over the weekend, TV news crews tried to keep up with covering the events, but sometimes...
01/06/2020
Qligent Taps Brick Eksten to Role of CEO
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Qligent announced that Brick Eksten has been appointed to the position of CEO with the company, taking over the job from Qligent's founder E...
01/06/2020
Hearst CEO Says Three TV Journalists Injured During Protests
NEW YORK-After the protests and riots that took place over the weekend in response to the killing of George Floyd, Hearst President and CEO Steve Swartz issued ...
01/06/2020
Disney+ Adopted by 25% of U.S. Broadband Homes Since Launch, Report Finds
ADDISON, Texas-Debuting with much fanfare in the fall of 2019, Disney and Apple TV have gained solid traction in the streaming video market, with both service...
01/06/2020
Grass Valley Establishes the GVX Customer Council
MONTREAL-Grass Valley is gathering a group of media industry technologists and business leaders to form the GVX customer council, which will work with Grass Val...
01/06/2020
Tech Group Says Broadcasters Should Concentrate on Broadcasting ATSC 3.0
WASHINGTON-A D.C. thinktank told the FCC last week that if broadcasters want changes to ownership rules in order to allow them to market broadcast internet vi...
30/05/2020
Quibi Adds AirPlay Capability in Latest Update
LOS ANGELES-Quibi has added a new feature that provides additional viewing capabilities to what was at first supposed to be a mobile-only streaming service. Acc...
30/05/2020
Intelsat Warns FCC of Video Quality Concerns Post C-Band Transition
WASHINGTON-Intelsat has told the FCC that due to current procedures for the C-band transition, it will likely be unable to prevent interference issues post-tran...
30/05/2020
NAB Announces 2020 Service to America Award Finalists
WASHINGTON-The finalists for the 2020 Service to America Awards have been announced by the NAB Leadership Foundation, which recognize outstanding community serv...
30/05/2020
ARRI Hires Ivo Ivanoski as Lighting Division GM
MUNICH-ARRI has announced the hiring of Ivo Ivanoski to the role of general manager for the company's lighting business unit. Ivanoski is expected to take o...
30/05/2020
Haystack TV Launches Interactive News Ticker on Roku
SAN FRANCISCO & LOS GATOS, Calif.-OTT news source Haystack TV has upped its game as a provider of viewer-specific personalized news with the launch of Newsline,...
28/05/2020
HBO Max Officially Launches
LOS ANGELES-HBO Max, the streaming service created by WarnerMedia, is now available, adding a new platform for consumers' seemingly constant expanding optio...
28/05/2020
Dolby Labs Certifies SSIMPLUS for Dolby Vision Monitoring
WATERLOO, Ontario-Dolby Laboratories has approved SSIMWAVE's SSIMPLUS Viewer Experience monitoring product for its ability to decode Dolby Vision-enabled co...
28/05/2020
U.S. Pay TV Revenue Projected to Drop 35% to $57.4B by 2025
LONDON-Global pay-TV revenue will fall to $150 billion in 2025, from a peak of $202 billion in 2016, despite the addition of 35 million additional subscribers, ...
28/05/2020
Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Not Happening in Denver
EXTON, Pa.-Cable-Tec Expo 2020 will not be happening in Denver this October after SCTE-ISBE received notification from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis that the Colora...
27/05/2020
B+C Awards 2020 Now Accepting Nominations
NEW YORK-Broadcasting Cable, a sister publication of TV Technology, is now accepting nominations for the B C 2020 Awards, the publication's annual honors fo...
27/05/2020
NextGen TV Marks Vegas Debut
LAS VEGAS-NextGen TV took a major step forward with the launch of ATSC 3.0 over-the-air commercial television service in Las Vegas from network affiliates owned...
27/05/2020
FCC, CISA Issue Guidelines for State Communication Networks
WASHINGTON-The FCC and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) sent a joint letter to governors that stressed the importance of providing th...
27/05/2020
Remote Collaboration Is Here to Stay
Brought on suddenly by the coronavirus pandemic, the new normal of remote workflows has been getting a lot of press lately-but the truth is that media enterpris...
27/05/2020
Hearst TV Promotes Greg Turner to Eastern Region Director of Engineering
NEW YORK-Hearst Television has promoted long-time engineering executive Greg Turner to eastern region director of engineering. Turner, who has been an engineeri...
27/05/2020
Dish, DirecTV Among Hardest Hit in Q1 Pay-TV Decline
LONDON-Despite reports that traditional TV viewership has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, the pay-TV market is still declining throughout most of the...
27/05/2020
Station Overcomes Record Flooding to Return to Chicago Airwaves
CHICAGO-Engineers and work crews for one Chicago-area TV station worked feverishly this week to restore operations after losing power due to a flood last weeken...
27/05/2020
AIMS Partners With VSF on Media Over IP Webcasts
BOTHELL, Wash.-The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is partnering with the Video Services Forum (VSF) to offer the Summer Sessions - Media Over IP Educati...
27/05/2020
Intercoms Ready for the New Normal'
SEATTLE-Intercom makers design all sorts of technology to let them stretch their newscast communication systems to all sorts of far flung liveshot locations, bu...
27/05/2020
Grass Valley Technology Alliance Adds New Members
MONTREAL-Grass Valley's certification program, the Grass Valley Technology Alliance, has added five new member companies to its ranks: EcoDigital, Haivision...
27/05/2020
AT&T Reaches Post-STELAR Deal With Fox
DALLAS-AT&T has announced a new multi-year carriage agreement with Fox that will continue to provide the network's content to DirecTV subscribers after the ...
27/05/2020
WSA Touts White Space Applications Around the World
CHELMSFORD, Mass.-The White Space Alliance, a group advocating for the use of TV band white spaces for wireless applications, has said new use cases for the dev...
26/05/2020
Scripps Employees Impacted by Pandemic to Receive an Extra $2,000
CINCINNATI-The E.W. Scripps Company says it will give $1.6 million from the Scripps Family Impact Fund to employees impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and to ...
