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29/03/2018
Royalty-Free AV1 Codec Turned Loose
NEW YORK--With giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in its corner, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has released the 1.0 version ...
29/03/2018
WXXI Selects Grass Valley Cameras for Upgraded Studios
MONTREAL Rochester N.Y. PBS affiliate WXXI TV has bought nine Grass Valley LDX 82 Flex cameras as part of a recent upgrade to its two production studios. The st...
29/03/2018
Dielectric Snags Philippines Broadcast Business
RAYMOND, ME Antenna and RF systems provider Dielectric has landed several key TV and FM radio deals in the Philippines in partnership with 90 Degrees North, In...
29/03/2018
ESPN Nears Launch of New Lower Manhattan Studios
NEW YORK ESPN will launch production from its new Seaport District Studio in the Howard Hughes Corp. development at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan April 1 with its ...
29/03/2018
Quincy Standardizes News Production on Avid
BURLINGTON, MA. Quincy Media has adopted Avid's MediaCentral platform for its news operations, expanding Avid's reach across all of Quincy's station...
29/03/2018
CRAS Students Learn from Fred Aldous During NASCAR Race
AVONDALE, ARIZ. Students from the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences got a three-day crash course on mixing live audio and video feeds for a sports produ...
29/03/2018
NAB Highlights 244 First-Time Exhibitors
The National Association of Broadcasters said 244 companies will be first-time exhibitors at the NAB Show in April. The list includes Blubrry Podcasting, Libsy...
29/03/2018
Incubator Program Has Its Supporters, Detractors
WASHINGTON--There's both support and scorn for a Federal Communications Commission plan to rekindle an incubation program designed to boost minority ownersh...
29/03/2018
MLB Partners With The Video Call Center to Manage Live Video Caller Production
PALISADES, NY The Video Call Center has announced a partnership with Major League Baseball to handle live video caller production. As part of the multi-year p...
29/03/2018
An Innovator Remembered
The passing of Eric Small is heartbreaking in so many ways. Most of us know of him through his broadcast engineering ability and his company Modulation Sciences...
28/03/2018
Broadcasters Now Guaranteed Access to Disaster Areas
Tucked within that spending bill signed by Pres. Donald Trump last week is a requirement that broadcasters be allowed access to disaster areas in order to maint...
28/03/2018
TiVo Deal Gives Tru Optik OTT Cloud Users Linear TV Data
TiVo has made a deal that will make its linear TV viewership data available through Tru Optik's OTT Marketing Cloud, giving advertisers advanced targeting a...
28/03/2018
What Can Attendees Expect at the 2018 NAB Show?
LAS VEGAS Over the years, the NAB Show has successfully adapted to the rapidly changing demands of the media and entertainment industry. This year is no differe...
28/03/2018
Broadcasters Win Priority Access To Sites Following Emergencies
LEAWOOD, KAN. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, WWL(AM/FM) at the time a Belo station managed to stay on the air due in large part to t...
28/03/2018
Sinclair Taps ATEME for ATSC Encoding
PARIS, DENVER & SINGAPORE ATEME has announced that it is supplying Sinclair Broadcast Group with live video encoding technology for Sinclair's Dallas experi...
27/03/2018
MLB 2018: A Clearer Image
BALTIMORE With the 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) season about to get underway, it's time for the fans to see what video upgrades are being offered for th...
27/03/2018
Deadline Extended for 2018 NAB Best of Show Awards
ALEXANDRIA, VA. NewBay has announced that it is extending the deadline for its fifth annual Best of Show Awards for the 2018 NAB Show to March 30. The original ...
27/03/2018
Clear-Com Ready to Toast 50th Anniversary
ALAMEDA, CALIF. A lot has changed in 50 years for the broadcast industry and during that time Clear-Com has been around to help consumers meet those changes. Th...
23/03/2018
FCC Takes Aim at Streamlining TV Satellite Reauthorizations
WASHINGTION The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to streamline how TV satellite stations are reauthorized when they are assigned or transferred a...
23/03/2018
Bahakel Communications Signs MPA With Comark
SOUTHWICK, MASS. Comark is going to be providing its services to Bahakel Communications, after the company signed a Master Purchase Agreement with Comark for ne...
23/03/2018
FCC Chair and Commissioners to Speak at NAB Show
WASHINGTON At this year's NAB Show, the Federal Communications Commission will be out in full strength. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Michael O...
23/03/2018
CPB Praises Congress' Passing of Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON Though threats and proposals had been made to freeze or defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the last year, the recent passage of the Ap...
22/03/2018
DTV Engineering Pioneer Charles W. Rhodes Dead At 88
LEAWOOD, KAN. Well-known TV Technology author, broadcast engineer and DTV pioneer Charles W. Rhodes, 88, died March 20, following complications from a hip fract...
22/03/2018
Appropriations Bill Includes $600M for Repack Expenses
WASHINGTON Good news for broadcasters that will be affected by the spectrum auction repack the $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations legislation unveiled Wedne...
21/03/2018
Golf Channel Puts Lawo Faders in Its Bag
RASTATT, GERMANY Lawo is on the course with the Golf Channel, as the network has installed three 64-fader mc-2-56 consoles to handle its primary production cont...
21/03/2018
Jim Ocon Launches New Company Targeting News Contribution Innovation
FORT COLLINS, COLO. Jim Ocon, a familiar face to many broadcasters, two weeks ago launched Ocon Solutions Company, a Fort Collins, Colo.-based engineering consu...
21/03/2018
NAB Urges FCC to Protect In-Band Channels to Ease Next-Gen Transition
WASHINGTON NAB has asked the FCC to reject requests from Microsoft and other TV white space device advocates to guarantee spectrum access rights for unlicensed ...
21/03/2018
Stadium Sports Network Opens New Studio at United Center
CHICAGO Stadium opened a new studio this week and expanded office space in the atrium at Chicago's United Center, the 24/7 all-platform sports network said....
20/03/2018
Comark Inks Deal With Ateme to Resell 1.0, 3.0 Encoders
SOUTHWICK, MASS. Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark today announced a partnership with ATEME Corp. to become an authorized reseller and service provider of Ateme A...
20/03/2018
NAB Pitches 50 Percent UHF/VHF Discount
WASHINGTON The National Association of Broadcasters isnt asking the FCC to raise the bridge to more station ownership, but instead to lower the river. That cam...
20/03/2018
GatesAir Promotes Goins and vanHaaster
CINCINNATI A pair of promotions have been announced for the GatesAir sales division, with Mark Goins (pictured above) being promoted to senior director of sales...
19/03/2018
Eric Small Dies in Florida Accident
DELRAY BEACH, FLA. Eric Small, co-developer of the Optimod FM processor, founder of Modulation Sciences Inc., and holder of several patents, is dead at the age ...
19/03/2018
NAB Show Previewing Future of Content Production in New Session
WASHINGTON Change is coming all along the content chain, from production to viewing, and the 2018 NAB Show will look to detail some of those changes with a spec...
19/03/2018
PGA Tour Launches OTT Channel on Xumo
PONTE VERDA BEACH, FLA. The PGA Tour has added a new club to its bag for delivering content to its fans, as the organization has announced it is launching a liv...
19/03/2018
Comcasts Sky Bid Could Lead to a Global OTT Service
NEW YORK Comcasts bid for Sky could be the foundation of a global Over-The-Top offering, according to an analysis from MoffettNathanson Research's Craig Mof...
16/03/2018
NBC Sports Digital Touts 93M Unique Users in February
STAMFORD, CONN. NBC was billing February as the Best Feb Ever in the weeks prior and that title held true for its NBC Sports Digital platform, as the network ...
16/03/2018
NAB Show Panel Tackling Disruptive Forces in Media Landscape
WASHINGTON Change seems to be a constant in today's media landscape and a panel at this year's NAB Show will put all of those disruptive forces in the s...
15/03/2018
All Major' TV Networks to Launch OTT, Direct-to-Consumer Services by 2022: TDG
PLANO, TEXAS Seeing select premium networks alongside a few other channels going...
15/03/2018
Brown, Bullet Tapped as Piskel's Managing Directors, Media & Entertainment
YORK, ENGLAND Video technology provider Piskel has announced the appointment of Kris Brown and Kristan Bullet as joint managing directors for its media & entert...
15/03/2018
New 24/7 News Channel to Make National Launch By Year-End
CADILLAC, MICH. NewsNet, a new 24/7 pundit- and panel-free news channel, is targeting a late-2018 launch to bring local news from around the country to a nation...
15/03/2018
Report: One in Five Homes Use Digital Antennas for Live TV
DALLAS With the decrease of pay-TV subscriptions and the increase in OTT video subscriptions, people are able to find different ways to get the content they wan...
15/03/2018
T-Mobile to Help KXAS Move Early
BELLEVUE, WASH. T-Mobile, which is incentivizing broadcasters to exit their spectrum early in the post-incentive auction repack, has incentivized NBC-owned KXAS...
14/03/2018
WFYI, MHz Worldview Contract DCA for Broadcast Operations Service
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. The Digital Convergence Alliance is providing broadcast operations services to WFYI Public Television serving Indianapolis and will begin ope...
14/03/2018
Q&A: Mark Aitken on Dallas Next-Gen SFN Trial
BALTIMORE Two months ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media Group, Univision and American Tower announced they would work together to setup an ATSC 3.0-ba...
14/03/2018
NCAA March Madness Offering 21 Games in VR
INDIANAPOLIS Fans will once again be able to put themselves in the center of March Madness as the NCAA has partnered with Turner Sports and CBS to live stream 2...
14/03/2018
Wazee Digital Goes With Telestream Cloud
NEVADA CITY, CALIF. The Telestream Cloud transcoding and media processing workflow is the choice for Wazee Digital for its cloud asset management service. The T...
14/03/2018
HEVC Advance Cuts Two Categories From Patent License
BOSTON HEVC Advance has eliminated the subscription and title-by-title content distribution categories from its patent license as a way to accelerate HEVC adopt...
14/03/2018
Utah Scientific, NVerzion to Integrate Product Lines
SALT LAKE CITY Utah Scientific and NVerzion have officially announced a partnership that will see the two companies integrate their respective product lines, in...
13/03/2018
Millions Flee Pay-TV; Revenues Slide, Say Researchers
ALEXANDRIA, VA. Pay-TV revenue, household penetration and subscriptions in the U.S. are down and things don't appear as if they will improve anytime soon, a...
13/03/2018
Pebble Beach Systems Adds Russin, Amoroso to North America Staff
WEYBRIDGE, LONDON A pair of appointments have been officially announced by Pebble Beach Systems, as the company has brought on David Russin and Robert Amoroso t...
