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Franken Explores The Lighter Side Of Going Live

July 21, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

While interviewing Bill Fesh, news ops manager at WFAA in Dallas, for today’s story on how two station news photographers used IP newsgathering tech to deliver live HD video from the midst of the sniper shooting in Dallas July 7, I made a passing comment about the 1987 ABC TV series Max Headroom. In the show, the Edison […]

Filed Under: ENG, IP Delivery, IP Networking, Satellite Tagged With: Al Franken, Bill Fesh, Edison Carter, ENG, IP, Max Headroom, newsgathering, satellite, Saturday Night Live, SNL

Let The RF War Games Begin

May 26, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Next up for Louis Libin and the other TV engineers coordinating frequency use at this year’s Democratic and Republican political conventions is a pair of what’s dubbed RF War Games — highly organized, methodical tests designed to track down and correct any source of harmful interference before each event begins. “The RF War Games are […]

Filed Under: ENG, Engineering, Microphones, Microwave, Testing, Transmitters Tagged With: Democratic National Convention, ENG, Frequency Coordination, Louis Libin, Political Conventions, Republican National Convention, RF War Games, testing, wireless mics

Integrated IFB Important Factor In Raycom Camera Decision, Says JVC

April 22, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Raycom Media has settled on the JVC GY-HM660 ProHD mobile news camera to be its primary ENG camera for the next three years and has committed to an initial purchase of 125 of the news cameras, JVCKenwood USA announced at the 2016 NAB Show this week in Las Vegas. The camera, which JVC announced earlier […]

Filed Under: Cameras, ENG, IP Delivery Tagged With: camera, Dave Walton, ENG, GY-HM660 ProHD, IFB, JVC, JVCKenwood USA, Rayom Media

Jim Ocon Persists In Making Over 2 GHz BAS Use

April 13, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Jim Ocon, former VP of engineering for Fox Television Stations in Dallas, has been on a mission to find a more efficient way for TV broadcasters to use 2 GHz Broadcast Auxiliary Service for ENG since he was at Pappas Telecasting in 2006. But now Ocon has traded in his broadcast hat for the post […]

Filed Under: ENG, Engineering, Mesh Network Tagged With: 2GHz BAS, contribution, ENG, Jim Ocon, mesh networks, Persistent Systems, radios

Sony Announces New XDCAM ENG Camcorder

November 9, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Sony’s is touting its new PXW-X400 shoulder-mount camcorder as offering stronger network and wireless capabilities, improved weight balance, XAVC-Long 60P recording and pool feed functions. Besides wireless LAN support, the new camcorder has a built-in Ethernet port (RJ45), which makes it possible to sidestep any wireless connectivity problems and transfer files and live steam over […]

Filed Under: Cameras, ENG Tagged With: camcorder, ENG, PXW-X400, Sony

Ted Hand To Discuss 2 GHz BAS Band Sharing At NewsTECHForum

October 20, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Ted Hand, director of engineering/operations at Cox Media Group in Charlotte, N.C., and newly elected national frequency coordination committee chairman for the Society of Broadcast Engineers, has agreed to participate as a panelist on the 2015 NewsTECHForum ENG panel. Many in attendance may be unfamiliar with the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense currently […]

Filed Under: Conferences and Conventions, ENG, Engineering, Society of Broadcast Engineers Tagged With: Department of Defense, ENG, NewsTech Forum, panel, SBE, Society of Broadcast Engineers, Ted Hand

ArrowData Launches Drone ENG Services

May 6, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

A Las Vegas-based company specializing in airborne HD video acquisition will begin offering aerial electronic newsgathering from drones after receiving an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration to rules prohibiting their use for commercial purposes. The company, ArrowData, said May 5 that it is the first in the nation to receive the go-ahead from the […]

Filed Under: Drones, ENG Tagged With: AeroJournalism, ArrowData, drones, Electronic News Gathering, ENG, James Fleitz, UAS, Unmanned Aircraft Systems

ABC Says Verizon AWS Base Stations Interfering With WABC ENG

March 6, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Lawyers for ABC have requested the FCC Enforcement Bureau find Verizon in violation of commission rules for failing to install notch filters to protect the ENG operations of WABC New York from out-of-band emissions from the wireless carrier’s AWS base stations. In an informal complaint, filed March 4 with Bruce Jacobs, chief of the FCC’s Spectrum […]

Filed Under: Acquisition, ENG Tagged With: ABC, AWS, ENG, OOBE, out of band emissions, WABC

IP Newsgathering Fills ENG Breach

February 13, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

One of the standard questions I have been asking anyone involved with IP newsgathering for years is: Is IP newsgathering good enough and reliable enough to take the place of point-to-point microwave ENG live shots? Opinions are mixed. Some, who look at raising an ENG mast as an accident waiting to happen, can’t wait to […]

Filed Under: ENG, IP Delivery Tagged With: ENG, KCBD, receive site, Ricky Price

You Can’t Make Ham From A Cow, Or Can You?

December 23, 2014 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

It’s my wife’s and my turn to host Christmas dinner this year for the extended family — something I consider to be a real treat because when we do, we serve ham from the HoneyBaked Ham Co. There are at least eight of these stores in the Kansas City metro area, and the days before […]

Filed Under: 4K, Cameras, ENG Tagged With: 4K, cameras, CBS News, cinematic newsgathering, CNN, ENG, Frank Governale, HD, Michael Koetter, Turner Broadcasting

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