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Small Cablers Can Skip HD
8.22.2008
If a local station broadcasts in HD, and a local consumer buys an HDTV set, the local cable system will carry that HD signal, FCC commissioners said a year ago.
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Civil Rights Group Wants Improved DTV Awareness
7.11.2008
The advocacy group is concerned that low-income consumers, minorities, the disabled, and senior citizens are not being adequately informed about the consequences of the DTV transition.
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Equity Media Ex-Boss Buys Company Assets
7.04.2008
In an interview, Luken said his primary interest in the deal is RTN—not the stations, which he said he purchased in large part to get much-needed cash to Equity.
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Comcast Testing Data-Slowing Methods
8.22.2008
Even as the FCC released its order slapping Comcast for slowing Internet peer-to-peer applications, the company is testing technologies to slow large data files.
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Son-in-Law Succeeds Gray Television CEO
8.22.2008
The value of the company, which operates 36 television stations in 30 markets and 40 digital second channels, has been hammered the last few years.
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Philips Buys All of Teletrax
8.22.2008
Teletrax makes video “intelligence” solutions such as watermarking technologies to allow networks and others to track distribution of their content.
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Utah Scientific Debuts Router Interface for Miranda Kaleido-X
8.22.2008
The new option uses the MV-Link (Universal Multi-Viewer Link), available as a Kaleido-X input option, replacing eight individual coax cables with a single multicore cable to reduce the cost and complexity of connecting the outputs of the router to the inputs of the display processor.
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Snell & Wilcox Introduces Compact Kahuna
8.15.2008
Designed for live, fast-paced production environments, the Kahuna 1 M/E offers the performance and features of the Snell’s flagship Kahuna production switcher, but at an entry-level size and price, according to the company.
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WV Media Selects Nverzion for Content Sharing
8.22.2008
West Virginia Media Group, a Charleston, W.V.-based station group has chosen turnkey hardware and software automation technology from Nverzion to fully automate the acquisition, transmission, near-line storage and sharing of content between its stations.
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Intel, Yahoo Invade HDTVs
8.22.2008
In what could be a way to move ads from the Internet direct onto HDTVs, Intel architecture and Yahoo’s applications will drive the Widget Channel, a framework optimized for TVs and other devices.
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Broadcom Brings Smaller D-to-A Chip
8.22.2008
The company said adapter chips like this one will help cable operators with their obligation to carry, in some cases, SD, HD and analog versions of a single channel.
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Wireless Data Outlook Is Good
8.01.2008
“Between 2010 and 2012, mobile video/TV usage will get an extra boost as phones compatible with the ATSC-M/H mobile broadcast TV standard emerge.
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CBS Launches Mobile Hurricane News Center
8.15.2008
The system allows users to access detailed statistics such as hurricane positions, projected storm paths and the latest category rating for storms in their area.
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Clear-Com Turns the Big Four-Oh
8.15.2008
The company is part of The Vitec Group. It was founded in 1968 with the first party-line beltpack for live venue.
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IEEE Plans 58th Broadcast Symposium
7.25.2008
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Broadcast Symposium date has been set this year for Oct. 15-17 in Alexandria, Va.
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Fisher Promotes Rob Dunlop to Senior VP of Operations
8.15.2008
Seattle-based Fisher Communications Inc. has promoted longtime manager Robert Dunlop to the position of senior vice president of operations, with responsibility over the company’s 28 broadcast properties as well as its digital and technology initiatives.
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NBC Plans E-Mail Alert Service for Games
8.01.2008
“NBC Olympics alerts enable our users to get all of the best news and information from the Beijing Olympic Games—how they want it, when they want it,” said Perkins Miller, senior vice president for Digital Media at NBC Sports and Olympics.
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Mobile TV: $2 Billion in Ad Buys
4.18.2008
Media General Broadcast Group Senior Vice President Jim Conschafter not only delivered the $2 billion estimate but listed the three advantages broadcasters have over mobile TV competitors.
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Super Bowl XLII: Digital Tech Set-Up to be Massive
2.01.2008
The technical preparations for Fox Sports to carry Sunday’s Super Bowl XLII to the world will be, as usual, monumental, and the HD and other state-of-the-art field-coverage equipment will be the most sophisticated yet for the event.
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