Thailand flooding causes disruptions in electronics supplies
Affecting the broadcast industry is the disruption of hard drives and analog and discrete semiconductors. ...
Industry awaits FCC’s CALM rules
The Commission will release its new rules governing loudness for broadcast and pay television by the end of the December....
New FCC nominees to face Senate on Nov. 30
The Senate Commerce Committee has set the date for the confirmation hearings of two new members of the FCC, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel....
DreamWorks sees an Internet future dominated by audio, video
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts the dominant communications vehicle on the net would begin changing next year from mostly text to audio and video....
Sony to launch Internet-based TV network
Sony has reportedly approached several major media companies to negotiate the rights to offer their TV channels over the Internet in the U.S....
China summit agrees global approach to DTT
A China summit meeting has reached agreement to start ending the current divided state of digital terrestrial broadcasting....
EU backs EBU plan to ensure media freedom in SE Europe
The European Union is expected to sign an agreement with the European Broadcast Union (EBU) to back media independence across the Balkan region....
London firm predicts 551 million connected TV sets by 2016
A new report from London based Digital TV Research predicts that the number of TV sets connected to the Internet in a sample of 40 countries will increase from 124 million at the end of 2010 to 551 million by 2016....
Comcast Media Center provides network origination and transmission services for NHL Network
The Comcast Media Center is providing turnkey services to distribute the sports network’s programming....
Senators want FCC to repeal media ownership rules
The rules governing newspaper/broadcast and radio/TV cross-ownership are being rewritten by the commission and are expected to be made public next year....
Coalition for Free TV releases Broadcast Overlay Report
The group has joined with Sinclair Broadcast group to propose an alternative broadcast spectrum use plan to use to support broadband services on a national level....
Future of Broadcast Television Summit looks at the big picture
Television engineers and technology executives from 13 broadcast organizations located around the world have joined for a common cause....
Super Committee pressed on spectrum issues in last-ditch lobbying effort
A number of special interest groups are vying for their share of the spectrum pie....
WCFE adds Granite 5000 as final piece of HD conversion
The PBS station serving Vermont, New York and Quebec is using the live HD video production system to produce a variety of local programming including the "Mountain Lake Journal" newsmagazine. ...
WAFF launches local HD newscasts
The centerpiece of production control of the Raycom Media station in Huntsville, AL, is the Snell Kahuna multiformat HD/SD switcher....
