University of Nebraska uses Hitachi HDTV cameras to produce ‘Market Update’
Cameras are taken into farmers’ fields, pastures, feed lots and remote places to interview agricultural experts and demonstrate techniques...
Equipment vendors proceed to NAB with caution
Many predict attendance will be lower than last year, but that won’t keep the technology vendors from vying for the spotlight....
2GHz BAS relocation passes halfway point toward completion
The latest update to the FCC from Sprint Nextel on the project reveals that 53 percent of broadcasters have installed their new Broadcast Auxiliary Service equipment...
Manufacturers target local TV stations with low-cost studio camera kits
Broadcasters are under competitive pressure to offer HD programming amidst a weak economy, so capital is tight...
Newspapers continue to challenge local TV Web sites
Most newspapers recognize the opportunity and continue to invest in video streaming...
RTNDA to give news managers hands-on VJ experience during NAB Show training
During RTNDA@NAB, the association is putting on three single-day sessions to teach news managers what it takes to do one-man-band journalism...
Local TV newscasts viewers report high engagement with advertising
A new survey conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates for Hearst-Argyle Television found news consumers more engaged with commercials during local TV newscasts than four other traditional media and the Yellow Pages...
Newspaper protection bill raises troubling questions for media, society
A bill introduced in the Senate yesterday to grant special tax status to some newspapers may in effect play favorites with untold consequences on the free flow of information...
SBE asks FCC to reconsider white space order, finds wireless mic protection lacking
The Society of Broadcast Engineers last week asked the commission to reconsider many aspects of the Report and Order authorizing consumer white space devices and took aim at spectrum sensing as an inadequate tool to protect wireless mics...
News journalism looking for a few good ideas
The Knight Foundation, created by the former publishers of the ‘Miami Herald,’ is funding new journalism experimentation...
Al Baghdadia TV acquires Advent NewSwift satellite uplinks
The Iraqi-owned Arabic-language channel has added three 1.2m Advent Newswift vehicle-mounted satellite antennas...
Two RF rivals reorganize approach to ENG market
Last week’s announcement that the Vitec Group would group Nucomm, RF Central and Microwave Services under the new RF Extreme business unit follows a January move by Vislink Group to consolidate Link Research, Microwave Radio Communications and Advent Communications...
Michael Degitz discusses 2GHz BAS relocation status
Sprint Nextel’s VP of spectrum talks about the challenges the company has faced in relocating Broadcast Auxiliary Service channels used for ENG and how the project is progressing...
TV Brussel to launch new look with Chyron LEX²
The broadcaster will rely on LEX² to create the graphic look of various news, sports, entertainment and cultural magazine shows...
Inmarsat completes I-4 satellite repositioning project
The repositioning optimizes the company’s constellation of I-4 satellites to provide worldwide broadband global area network coverage...
