Mobile DTV development draws kudos from unlikely quarter
Greg Herman, the head of a group advocating for broadcasters to have authority to use new digital modulation techniques, sees advancements in mobile DTV at the 2012 International CES as an important turning point for the technology....
StreamGuys, Haivision partner for live transcoding, Internet content delivery
Content delivery network and streaming media provider StreamGuys and Haivision Network Video have struck a partnership to offer complete live video asset management and streaming services to their customers, from broadcasters to enterprise-level businesses....
OMVC announces sizable growth in number of MDTV stations at CES
Just prior to the opening of the 2012 International CES, the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced there are now some 120 stations on air with the mobile service....
FCC adopts EAS rules
The new rules codify in detail the general obligation laid out in the commission’s Second Report and Order requiring EAS participants to be able to receive CAP-formatted messages....
MetroPCS to offer customers Mobile DTV on smartphones
The cell phone operator announced it will offer Samsung Android smartphones with the Mobile Content Venture Dyle application preloaded and an MDTV receiver later this year....
SIRG to address satellite identification
The Satellite Interference Reduction Group has set up a new working group to make it possible to identify individual satellites with the aim of reducing interference from auto-deploy uplinks....
Media Bureau extends reply comment deadline in TV public file proceeding
The bureau extended the deadline for reply comments till Jan. 17 following a request from the NAB....
Media Bureau announces new filing requirement for CSR, CSC petitions
Effective Jan. 3, Cable Special Relief and Cable Show Cause petitions must be submitted electronically using the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS)....
OET seeks comments on TV receive site waiver requests
Seventeen LPTV stations and Multichannel Video Program Distributors are requesting the waivers so their TV receive sites outside an FCC-defined boundary can be listed in the white space database....
WEAU begins broadcasting from new 2000ft tower
The Wisconsin station is on air from the new structure less than 10 months after its previous tower collapsed during an ice storm....
MetroPCS to offer customers Mobile DTV on smartphones
The cell-phone operator announced it will offer Samsung Android smartphones with the Mobile Content Venture Dyle application preloaded and an MDTV receiver later this year....
Tektronix introduces compact RF, microwave power sensors/meters
Tektronix recently introduced its PSM RF series, a family of compact RF and microwave power sensors/meters that can be used for a broad range of CW and pulse modulation measurements....
Game Time Communications chooses Telex intercom systems, part 1
Football intercom consultant Andy Cocallas of Game Time Communications uses Telex intercom systems to overcome interference and other obstacles to the fast flow of information between on-field and off-field coaching staff a head coach needs in order to make split-second decisions about how best to deploy the team....
The road to 3-D
Although 3-D content is widely available in theaters, and 3-D disc players are now on retail shelves, terrestrial digital television has not caught up...
Satellite services and systems, part 2
Last month's column began with a short reference to the first transatlantic satellite transmission over Telstar (1965). Of course, the more interesting...
