Daniel Channon has been appointed rental engineer in the U.K offices of Riedel Communications, the company announced today. His responsibilities will include managing, coordinating and maintaining the company’s rental services. Before joining Riedel, Channon was a project manager at Results Technology services and worked on the Rio and London Olympic and Paralympic Games. More information […]
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Sinclair Inks Deal For ATSC 3.0 Chipset Development
ONE Media 3.0, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, today announced it has entered into an agreement with chip maker Saankhya Labs to develop ATSC 3.0 chipsets to power consumer devices capable of receiving next-gen TV. Saankhya Labs, located in the “Silicon Valley” region of India, specializes in Cognitive Software Defined Radio chipsets, said […]
FCC’s Next-Gen TV Rulemaking Notice Draws Praise
The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to authorize next-generation television released today is garnering favorable reaction from both the Advanced Television Systems Committee and a coalition of major broadcast groups that has worked to advance the ATSC 3.0 standard. A statement released this morning by ATSC President Mark Richer calls the NPRM “another important step […]
Dielectric Celebrates 75 Years In Business
Antenna and RF component manufacturer Dielectric is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and is planning a series of events to commemorate the milestone, the company announced today. Among the festivities will be an event for customers at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 22-27, and an Employee Appreciation Day. One of the […]
Broadcast RF Delivers For Woody Harrelson’s Live Movie
Actor, director Woody Harrelson’s ambitious live production, Lost in London, beamed to more than 500 U.S. theaters and one in London last week, required an expensive RF deployment put in place by Broadcast RF. The company, which this week issued a press release on the project, deployed a Domo HD transmitter in a backpack with […]
Black Box Bridges Virtual-Machine-KVM Gap
Virtualizing broadcast functions like playout, master control, editing and graphics has received a lot of attention over the past couple of years, especially as high-profile broadcast networks have begun leveraging common off-the-shelf servers and other IT equipment to support their operations. But what about something a little less sexy? Something like remote keyboard, video and […]
KTLM McAllen Advances ’25 Years Overnight’
The days of unpredictable power interruptions, local SD production and being forced to adapt to the limitations of a set rather than having the set meet its needs are in the rearview mirror for KTLM, Telemundo 40, in McAllen, Texas. Since June 25, the station has been operating from its new 23,000-square-foot Telemundo 40 Studios on […]
Vermont College Journalism Program Goes HD
The Electronic Journalism Arts Department of Lyndon State College has upgraded its Vermont Center for Community Journalism (VCCJ) broadcast facility, News7, to HD production, according to teleprompter provider CueScript. The HD upgrades include two new Ikegami HC-HD300 equipped with CueScript EMC17 17-inch teleprompter monitors and CSTM19 19-inch prompter talent monitors. The student-operated VCCJ facility provides […]
GatesAir Web Resources Offers Broadcasters Help With Repack, ATSC 3.0
The spectrum repack and ATSC 3.0 are the subject of a new informational page GatesAir has published online following its second annual Repack Summit last month. The page includes links to separate pages devoted to preparing for both the auction and the repack. Together the pages are a valuable resource for broadcasters who are getting […]
AES67: Are Two Ships Passing In The Night?
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness…” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn A funny thing happened on the way to IP audio interoperability. The Audio Engineering Society committee that developed the AES67 standard for IP […]