currently serves as Online Editor for Broadcast Engineering magazine and is a frequent contributor to the U.S. print version as well. He also currently serves as Editor and Publisher of VideoJournalistToday.com, a website for aspiring journalists and production professionals. As an experienced editor covering the television broadcast and professional video production industry, he has spent the last 23 years in various editorial capacities with a wide variety of industry publications.

Posts by Michael Grotticelli

Facebook Makes Social Media Deals with NBC and CNN

Signaling its intention to use its considerable clout to support traditional TV, Facebook, the fast growing social media giant, has made cross-....More

Audience confidence in TV news fading

Gone are the days when viewers believe everything they see and hear on TV. A recent survey by the Gallup organization finds that audience confidence....More

Making CDN Deployment Affordable Through Shared Capacity

The emergence of cloud- or remotely based storage and signal processing services has allowed a wide variety of companies to become instant bandwidth....More

Major storm knocks out power to Amazon web services, throwing cloud safety into question

For more than a year broadcasters have heard the hype promoting the benefits of remotely based cloud computing: Redundant backup to the hilt with....More

Newspapers outsource local journalism to the Philippines; Is TV next?

Several major American news organizations are outsourcing local journalism to the Philippines—paying reporters as little as 35-cents per news story,....More

ABC enhances licensing of online archives

ABC News has enhanced its VideoSource website to allow news producers and other TV show creators to screen content and create clips from the ABC News....More

KWCH-TV hoping to “spark some interest” in mobile DTV in Kansas

Full-power CBS affiliate KWCH-TV has become the first station in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas market to broadcast an ATSC Mobile handheld (MH)....More

Unique soundproofing challenge met despite nearby airport

System integrators and architectural designers often have to deal with challenges of one type of another-a brick wall here, a misplaced AC duct there....More

Technicolor broadcast services now a wholly owned business unit of Ericsson

Ericsson has completed its acquisition of the Broadcast Services Division of Technicolor, headquartered in France. The initial acquisition....More

Comcast makes an encryption deal with Internet-TV developer

Comcast and Boxee, the Internet television developer, reached an agreement that will allow users of Boxee set-top boxes to access encrypted cable....More