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 […]
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Let The RF War Games Begin
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 […]
Integrated IFB Important Factor In Raycom Camera Decision, Says JVC
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 […]
Jim Ocon Persists In Making Over 2 GHz BAS Use
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 […]
Sony Announces New XDCAM ENG Camcorder
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 […]
Ted Hand To Discuss 2 GHz BAS Band Sharing At NewsTECHForum
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 […]
ArrowData Launches Drone ENG Services
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 […]
ABC Says Verizon AWS Base Stations Interfering With WABC ENG
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 […]
IP Newsgathering Fills ENG Breach
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 […]
You Can’t Make Ham From A Cow, Or Can You?
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 […]