High school students produce news brief with Broadcast Pix Slate
Students at West Forsyth High School in Cumming, GA, produce a five-minute news program with the Slate three days a week...
Orad to highlight virtual set solutions at NRB 2009
The company will feature its RealSet HD/SD system that seamlessly integrates 3-D virtual objects into a conventional studio...
Sonnet Technologies to highlight Fusion F3 at MacWorld
The hardware RAID storage system is appropriate for applications in studios, high-end A/V racks, mobile TV trucks and desktop or portable video editing systems...
Reporters without Borders numbers show 2008 safer for journalists worldwide
The group’s statistics measuring violence, arrests and censorship show that traditional print and broadcast journalists fared better in 2008, but their Internet counterparts are experiencing greater repression...
Internet surpasses newspapers as main news source; TV challenged for top spot among young adults
Results of a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press show that while TV dominates as the main source of national and international news among all adults, those aged 18 to 29 turn first to the Internet in equal numbers...
NFL feeling the pinch
The league is eliminating about 150 of its staff of 1100 in New York, NFL Films in New Jersey and TV and Internet production facilities in Los Angeles...
Apple adds Final Cut support for Panasonic AG-HMC150 camcorder PH recording mode
The enhanced PH recording mode provides high-quality 1080 and 720 recording in an AVCHD format at bit rates up to 24Mb/s...
JVC to unveil acquisition product for Final Cut post production
The company will introduce the new acquisition product at the Eighth Annual Final Cut Pro User Group (FCPUG) SuperMeet in San Francisco next month...
Crispin releases Windows XP Embedded hardware platform
Windows XP Embedded, or XPe, is the componentized version of Windows XP Pro that can be tailored to suit the needs of a specific application...
Litepanels unveils 1x1 Bi-Color LED light
The Bi-Color name comes from its design, which incorporates both 3200-degree K and 5600-degree K LEDs...
Montreal broadcaster adds HyperX² graphics systems
TVA has added three more Chyron HyperX² graphics systems to assist with the production of HD graphics for public affairs and entertainment...
Satellite 2009 Conference and Expo to examine hot trends
One topic is whether stations should send an SNG vehicle to cover a news story, or a reporter and laptop...
Sprint Nextel reminds broadcasters to extend 2GHz BAS construction period
Broadcasters that will not meet the deadline for build-out of their new digital BAS facilities should file a request with the FCC seeking permission to extend the date, according to the company...
Westwood One, TrafficLand form strategic partnership
The companies will combine their respective traffic reporting resources to offer a comprehensive traffic information system for use on radio, television and the Internet...
Ad spending posts overall drop; TV sees some gains
Preliminary figures from Nielsen for the first three quarters of 2008 show a strong growth for cable TV advertising and gains in some broadcast categories when compared with the same period last year...
