On Jan. 6, 2007, WLS-DT/TVC, the ABC affiliate in Chicago, will become the first TV station in the market to broadcast its entire local news and programming line-up in HD, with 33 hours of weekly local news in HD.
The station currently operates the only HD helicopter in the market and was the first to provide video and audio podcasting, as well as making up-to-the-minute election results available via Web-enabled cell phones and wireless devices.
Kal Hassan, vice president of engineering, said that WLS-DT has one of the most advanced, all-digital facilities in the country. It includes an all-digital infrastructure with HD control rooms, HD studio and handheld field cameras, HD graphics weather system and HD-capable live ENG trucks.
This eBook provides both new and veteran shooters an in-depth understanding of the technology that lies between the camera lens and the recording medium and how to maximize a camera's performance.
File-based technologies have replaced video tape methods for a majority of production and broadcast operations. The worlds of AV and IT are coalescing to create new methods and workflows for media
Video compression, editing and displays is an in-depth tutorial on MPEG compression technology, editing MPEG content and evaluating color video monitors written by long-time video expert, trainer and writer Steve Mullen, Ph. D.
2012 will be the year of mobile DTV. That’s the view of Erik Moreno, who along with Salil Dalvi, senior VP for Mobile Platform Development at NBC Universal, is co-general manager of the Mobile Content Venture.
Hear snippets of podcast interviews done throughout 2011 with Pat McDonough of The Nielsen Company, Glen Friedman of Ideas & Solutions!, Danny Wilson of Pixelmetrix and Greg Herman of Watch TV. Pictured is Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix.
