I have received word from another company that is offering services to help broadcasters with their FCC-required medical notifications. This company, RF Notifications, (similar in name to the company I wrote about earlier today, but different), has developed a two-step program for stations changing channel assignments to address the medical facility notification required by the […]
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Online Service Addresses DTV Medical Notification
Broadcasters affected by the spectrum repack must notify medical facilities of their new channel assignments to avoid interfering with medical telemetry devices as required by the FCC. To address this requirement, DTVNotification.com has setup an online server for digital TV stations that provides the necessary medical notifications for stations, according to Dennis Wallace, managing partner in […]
Maine Public Broadcasting Installs Maxiva Exciters
Maine Public Broadcasting has upgraded its RF plants network-wide to GatesAir Maxiva M2X exciters, GatesAir said today. Installed in all five of its GatesAir transmitters, the Maxiva M2X optimizes the ATSC digital TV signal across all Maine Public Broadcasting VHF and UHF systems while assuring regulatory compliance, the company said. “The Maxiva M2X significantly optimizes the transmission envelope, and also improves the auto-correction capabilities of […]
Mark Fehlig Joins Osborn Engineering
Communications engineer Mark Fehlig has joined Osborn Engineering’s media technology group and will lead initiatives related to FCC DTV spectrum auction and repack and repurposing of facilities. Fehlig, who has decades of experience at Scientific Atlanta, Harris, Wavestream and Georgia Public Broadcasting, was involved in the early years of developing satellite uplink and DTV video […]
ONE Media Makes Air With Its Next-Gen Waveform
Sinclair Broadcast Group-backed ONE Media put its own next-generation DTV waveform on-air for the first time on Dec. 23 in Austin, Texas, according to Sinclair VP advanced technology Mark Aitken. The OTA ONE Media transmission comes after five months of engineering by 30 “core engineering people” employed to make the next-gen system a reality, he said. […]