Excellence Award Winners 2007
Articles
Note from the editor
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Brad Dick Editorial Director
This year's Broadcast Engineering Excellence awards totaled 50 entries, which exceeded last year's total of 42. In addition, the contest pages posted...
Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic in Bethesda, MD, is a 24-hour cable sports network. Systems integrator Beck Associates helped design, integrate and install...
BOOM
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Romanian DTH broadcaster Boom contracted UK-based systems integrator TSL to design and build a new digital satellite facility. The facility now plays...
Lifetime
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Lifetime's 50,000sq-ft Technical Operations Center at 111 8th Avenue in New York City is the culmination of many years of intensive planning, driven by...
The Daily Show
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
In just two weeks, the entire cast and crew of The Daily Show moved from NEP Studio 54 into a new space across town in New York City from the smaller...
Rainbow Network Communications
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Rainbow Network Communications is a supplier of SD and HD program origination and distribution services to the multimedia industry. With a complex array...
Rainbow Media
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
VOOM HD Networks, a subsidiary of Rainbow Media, provides movies on five of its 15 channels throughout the day, which led to the network finding itself...
Times Square Studios
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Converting an existing studio complex to HD is no small task, especially when the revision can't interfere with live daily two-hour network broadcasts...
Tribune
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
In fall of 2005, Tribune consolidated its Washington, D.C., publishing and broadcast bureaus into a single facility on the seventh floor of the historic...
Modeo Mobile TV Network
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Crown Castle International lauched a mobile TV network, Modeo, using 5MHz nationwide spectrum acquired from the FCC. AZCAR provided systems design and...
Trinity Broadcast Network
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Two years ago Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) needed to find a way to comply with new FCC regulations for digital television. TBN also wanted to use this...
KGW-TV
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
When the automation and servers are eight years old, no longer supported by the manufacturer, and the servers lack the storage capacity for a growing...
Scripps Networks
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Scripps Networks worked with systems integrator Ascent Media to transform its broadcast operations department into a new media logistics division. The...
Viacom Networks
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Viacom Networks has maintained its Network Operations Center (NOC) in Hauppauge, NY, for more than 20 years. In the summer of 2005, to accommodate a number...
Globo News
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Globo TV in Brazil faced the challenge of deciding the best way to migrate from its tape-based workflow to a file-based one. The network chose its 24-hour...
Live Shots NY
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Media 3 just completed a live broadcast facility elegantly disguised as a luxurious Midtown executive club. Working with TPG Planning and Design, Media...
Discovery
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
This year, Discovery Communications added an HD control room to its production center in Silver Spring, MD, to serve the expanding HD and SD production...
Ascent Media Group
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
To address the problems of faster turnaround in a 4K data-centric media environment, Ascent Media Group (AMG) gutted its 100,000sq ft building in Burbank,...
KWHY-TV
Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM
KWHY-TV is an NBC owned-and-operated Spanish-language station serving the Los Angeles Hispanic market. The station's analog channel 22 and digital channel...
