Election cycle begins with deterioration
TV Technology Europe Editor Mark Hallinger is in Vancouver covering NBC's Olympics coverage and shared some of his thoughts about the experience "What are the technology stories of the Winter Olympic Games? Sometimes it’s hard to tell when you’re in
Spectrum vultures want regulatory hand over
Hollywood yields sniping, Haiti yields hope
At least the FCC’s not pretending to be impartial about handing more spectrum to cell-phone companies to satiate that industry’s shareholders. The hiring of Duke University Professor Stuart Benjamin as the commission’s first so-called Distinguished Scholar in Residence represented the most blatant thumb-nosing at broadcasting by the agency to date.
Perseverant and reliable—the qualities most inherent in the Chinese zodiac for 2009, the year of the Ox. Had the broadcast industry not had a bit of the Ox, very little may have been left of it for the year of
At the same time that Comcast announced its deal to acquire NBCU on Wednesday, it made public this letter which it has sent to federal regulators Public Interest Commitments Regarding NBC Universal From David L. Cohen Date
The FCC just declared a shot clock for tower siting. Municipalities now have a finite amount of time to review applications for locating communications towers. Now that the digital transition is over, and TV stations have slogged through tower negotiations
I have mobile skepticism. I’ve had it since MobiTV went live a few years ago. I still doubt that handset video will save the world, or even the broadcast industry. Such as it is. Mobile video is tiny TV, for
The movement to kill free, over-the-air TV service has never been as
intense as it is right now. The administration has aligned fully with
the telco and computer lobbies that have been trying to wrench spectrum
away from broadcasting for years.
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Southern California fires are threatening the area's transmission facilities on Mt. Wilson. Check out this coverage from Youtube
Britain marks the end of an era of television innovation when the last TV set rolls off the assembly line this week at a Toshiba plant in Plymouth an era that began with John Logie Baird's demonstration of the first
WAYNE, N.J. The folks at Vision Research couldn’t ask for better PR. The National Football League used VR’s Phantom HD cameras for its latest ad campaign, The New York Times reports. The campaign, valued between $150 million and $200 million,
In advertising, soon RadioShack will call itself the polite version of what engineers have always called the store The Shack. And apparently the public calls it ‘The Shack’ too, so the company is capitalizing on that, according to Chief Marketing
IDX System Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of power and wireless transmission solutions to broadcasters and video professionals, announced today its support for Yellow Ribbon America, a non partisan and nonprofit grassroots effort to unite the public and businesses in directly
It’s now five days and counting since the news of Michael Jackson’s death and the coverage on the airwaves continues non stop. Despite pleas from some viewers that the coverage is overdone, the networks—and in particular, the cable news outlets—continue
The 2009 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference papers are now available at the NAB Store. Consisting of more than 800 pages of technical papers, the 2009 version is the most comprehensive proceedings ever compiled. The papers represent a snapshot of current
Today was the day to disconnect the High Voltage cabinet in the old Harris transmitter so I can get the building cleared. Took the back door off and began to recon the situation WITHOUT my glasses. I thought to myself
In yesterday's decision from the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the FCC's decision to fine broadcasters in several "fleeting expletive" incidents, Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, brought up the issue of new technologies that could help broadcasters prevent