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...
Dubbing realities
Although critics have pointed out that reality programming is not really real, audiences have made this television format a real hit. Hand-held cameras...
Portable news links
The war in Iraq was marked by a phenomenal increase in the mobility of live news reports, with reporters and cameramen filing anywhere, from tanks and...
Portable news links
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Journalists are using the latest technology to deliver breathtaking, live reports from the field. Find out which equipment will work best for you....
Audio
Winner: Cumulus Mediaby Wheatstone With five stations broadcasting from two different facilities within the city limits of Nashville, TN, it was time...
SPECIAL REPORT: High definition
With competition heating up, stations are going digital in a big way. After years of complacency marked by stations begrudgingly installing digital transmitters...
Newsroom Technology-Station
Winner: Sdwestrundfunk (SWR)by Silicon Graphics As one of the first German public broadcasting stations, SWR serves more than 14 million viewers from...
Reconstructing the JFK assassination
On Thursday evening, Nov. 20, 2003, ABC aired the news special Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination Beyond Conspiracy. The program featured...
Advances in news technology
Follow the important advances in the technology that broadcasters use in the field and in the newsroom....
Making “Angels”
All told, there are about 415 effects shots in the miniseries — about half of the invisible variety and half dedicated to fantastical,...
CNBC's new network broadcast operations
Building a new facility from the ground up provided the network with a unique opportunity to rethink traditional operations models and incorporate future-proof technology....
Media asset-management systems
Discover how these content-location systems work and find out how to best implement one at your facility....
Newsroom automation
Modern systems can be customized heavily to achieve personalization for each station. Before computers, multipart forms were used, and wire copy was sometimes cut with a pair of scissors and taped together to “edit” the text....
Video networks
Broadcasters can exploit the cheapness of existing LAN equipment rather than having broadcast LANs using expensive esoteric equipment....
Thomson Grass Valley M-Series iVDR
This device doesn’t just replace the VTR; it surpasses it....
DTV peripheral equipment
Only two items for DTV origination would be outside this scope — the transmitter and the encoder....
Using video effects
The Farm Media Group chose the SOFTIMAGE|XSI program to produce an entire promo due to its character-animation capabilities and its integrated compositing system....
Network-attached storage
Find out how workstation users with different operating systems can share files on a common server....
Interactive TV
The rapid uptake of digital TV now needs to be encouraged and promoted — by both the government, so that analog can be turned off on schedule and its spectrum auctioned to the highest bidder, and by the broadcasters promoting the benefits as a way to increase audience share....
Master control playout options
A look at the past, present and future of master control. Which strategy fits your needs?...
Trends in connectivity
Many facilities are shifting from router-centric to storage-centric topologies. Find out what’s involved and look inside a facility that’s made the switch....
Video storage
A look at the past, present and future of video storage. Which storage strategy fits your needs?...
News television in the Dominican Republic
This new facility serves as its flagship operation, consolidating, upgrading and expanding its media holdings to address Medcom’s growing media business and longer term broadcast needs....
Archival storage systems
John Luff explains the process and history of archiving, and the reasons that archiving systems and good “digital librarians” are needed in the industry....
Unlocking archiving assets
It is a conservative estimate that more than 95.5 percent of the world’s global mountain of content does not generate revenue....
