Technology is democratising news gathering
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Television news organizations are always looking for unusual, exclusive or sensational pictures in the drive for ratings, and citizens' news is a new slant...
BroadcastAsia2005: HD and mobile broadcasting take the spotlight
As an attendee, the show provided the opportunity to visit all the major vendors without the marathon walks...
Who controls the gatekeeper?
Who should be in control of the channels we watch? The government or corporations? The author says it depends on a lot of things...
Get the lead out
Any future upgrade to your station’s vidoe library system may be hindered by the European Union. The editor discusses the problem...
Reader Feedback: Back me up
Brad Gilmer answers your questions...
Revisiting broadcasting, by default
There are changes on the horizon, like podcasting, that have monumental implications for the broadcast industry...
Looking high and wide for news
How does HD actually enhance the ability to cover the news? ...
The broadcast protection racket
In our culture, the expected response is that the commodity in question is offered without an expectation of payment from the consumer...
Diversity or be damned
Armed with regulations, government bureaucracy, rules and penalties, the two knights of the FCC round table had spent years battling filthy-rich broadcasters and the dreaded mega-moguls residing in the forest...
No more hum bars
Countries are making a mistake by not adopting the video frame rate standard to 720p/60 and 1080i/60...
Standards for measuring distant digital signals revisited
The commission wants to determine whether the current signal strength standard and testing procedures used to determine if a household is entitled to receive distant network programming from satellite services remain accurate or whether revisions are necessary...
Broadcasting a la NAB
There is a lot you can deduce from NAB2005, and there is a lot more that is not nearly so obvious unless you are in a position where you can sit back and look at it all objectively...
The buzz is back
Convention attendees and exhibitors returned to Las Vegas to take the industry's collective temperature...
Close to the edge
Emerging digital technologies present broadcasters with all kinds of disruptions to what was once an easy-to-make-money business model...
Multiple screen sizes may create multiple headaches
Workflow automation and DAM will become essential tools in providing cost-effective re-versioning of content for tomorrow's delivery channels...
Reader Feedback - Recommendations
Several authors offer recommendations on reference guides, product listings and more...
The challenges of datacasting
There is a growing demand for educational content delivery systems and local emergency and homeland security alerts, sent and received as digital files...
Online tower construction notification
Last year the commission established an on-line Tower Construction Notification System (TCNS) to notify SHPOs, Indian tribes and NHOs of tower construction interest in an area of land...
Repetitive messages
The rise of talk television and its spin is because the networks have failed to do their jobs...
Affordable HD at NAB
Coming into NAB2005, the HDV format was the big buzz...
Ghosts of brands long gone
The list is long and time is short as our intrepid technology manager challenges the elements in his quest to get the best products he can afford from a vast array of providers...
FCC stresses emergency information obligation
The FCC fined three San Diego TV stations for failure to make emergency information accessible to persons with hearing disabilities...
Reader Feedback: Un-confusing the customer
Author Paul McGoldrick sets a confused reader straight ...
FCC rejects DTV multichannel must-carry
Even though broadcasters do not have mandatory rights to multicasting and dual carriage, that does not mean that they are barred from negotiating for some or all of those rights with cable operators on an individual basis...
Confusing the customer
It seems hard to believe, but some of the retail speak is so “cunning” (in “Much Ado About Nothing” terms) that even I don’t understand it...
