WIBC's transition to digital
The Reuters Television bureau in Washington, DC, is the coverage hub for all video news acquisition from the Americas...
NEW STUDIO TECHNOLOGY non-broadcast
Winner: KLCS by Omneon Last January, KLCS completed the installation of a digital content distribution model able to reconfigure bandwith and satisfy...
NEW STUDIO TECHNOLOGY station
Winner: KIRO by Sundance Digital KIRO made a commitment to bring full digital automation to its newsroom. The station chose a solution based around its...
RF systems
Winner: KVIE by Thales KVIE's chief goal was to install a digital system in its existing building, using equipment that could help the station move to...
Station AUTOMATION
Winner: KTVK by Sundance Digital Belo media company embarked on a plan to centralize the master control operations of its four Arizona stations and their...
Taking Seven into the future
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Up and running in all markets, Seven is currently doing about 12,000 switches a day out of Melbourne...
NYI News goes tapeless with Panasonic's P2 recording system
While NY1’s transition to P2 continues, it has been impressed with the newfound speed and efficiencies of the format...
Will 2005 be the year of HDTV worldwide?
The number of countries outlining plans for HDTV services is growing...
HBO serves up secure, tapeless playout
When the network chose the technology that serves as the heart of the network’s playout systems, it selected established players in both the broadcast and computer industries...
Playout automation
What is different about automation today is that the amount of information that must be presented to an operator is nothing less than staggering...
Pro-Bel's Morpheus Velocity at Turner
The network’s live events group chose Pro-Bel’s Morpheus Velocity to meet the technical challenges presented by live events...
Granada Bristol selects Studio Network Solutions
The facility uses creative applications such as Apple's Final Cut Pro, Discreet's combustion and Adobe's After Effects to create its programs...
Networking tutorial, part 1
Brad Gilmer offers a detailed description of how Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) coordinates the assignment of IP addresses on a network, allowing computers to obtain both fixed and dynamic IP addresses automatically...
Building IT systems
If you can build a broadcast facility, you can build an IT system to work with it...
FOX News updates NY facility
FOX News in New York City recently renovated a street-level studio in order to make more room for their broadcast operations center...
Network cabling and infrastructure
Need Ethernet cables? Make sure you buy the right kind. Need to wire them yourself? Here’s how...
Network technologies: The future of routing?
Networks are being used for the distribution of video, and there are technologies that can allow us to provide an equivalent solution to the crosspoint router for video with a network...
Centralcasting solutions
The term strikes fear in many labor pools, yet the fact remains efficiency is key in business equipment decisions. John Luff discusses how centralized playout and distribution can not only reduce labor costs, but also improve on-air images. ...
SPECIAL REPORT: The MXF advantage
Find out how a software development kit can help vendors and users better understand and implement MXF code....
Data-backup technology and techniques
Here’s a look at the technology and techniques you can use to back up your facility’s precious data....
Digital video basics
The author explains how digital signals can be manipulated in endless ways. Using mathematical descriptions, readers gain an understanding of the processing that takes place in the digital realm for standard functions such as gain, EQ, color processing and delay....
HDTV displays
Just as color TV technology did some 50 years ago, digital HDTV is finally beginning to enter American homes. Unfortunately, for a time, the limited amount...
Revisiting Shannon
The year was 1948, 20 years after Harry Nyquist wrote his article Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory, in which the Nyquist sampling principles...
MPEG encoding systems
There are plenty of misconceptions about compressed video. If you look back in the recent history of our industry much misinformation exists. Twenty years...
NBA goes HD
In today's crowded field of sports broadcasting, it's not easy to stand out. But, with a series of significant carriage deals on direct-broadcast satellite...
