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Deborah D. McAdams   05/31/2011, 12:00AM
Broadcasting 2.0: The User Experience
But with no audience, there ain't squat to sell, and if the audience can't get a station over the air, that station is blowing off revenue.
  05/24/2011, 12:16PM
The Human Factor: Lost Know-How
How system design and project management skill sets have become scarce in broadcast work.
  05/18/2011, 04:46PM
An Upbeat Show

Tom Butts is the Editor in Chief of TV Technology. Another NAB has come and gone and as usual, there’s no shortage of opinions about out industry’s largest event. As has been our custom for the past few years, we’re

  05/18/2011, 04:44PM
Having Spectrum and Eating It, Too

Deborah McAdams is the Executive Editor of TV Technology. I was at the National Association of Broadcasters Show this year, surrounded by people whose livelihoods depend in large part on the preservation of spectrum dedicated to, you know... broadcasting. So

Deborah D. McAdams   05/18/2011, 12:00AM
Having Spectrum and Eating It, Too
When you start paying attention, you realize that what people say and what they do are often unrelated, as in diametrically opposed.
  05/12/2011, 04:42PM
McAdams On: More Fun With Numbers

Broadcasters did manage to get an extra seven whole days to comment on the spectrum reassignment docket, because the original period closed the Monday after the NAB Show in Las Vegas. If seven days is all they got as a result of “intense lobbying,” someone’s not spending enough on cigars.

  05/12/2011, 04:33PM
McAdams On: Locking Down TV Spectrum

The move to hand broadcast spectrum over to wireless providers is a Treasury play, pure and simple. Chinese gangstas in dark glasses are standing on the steps of the Capitol smoking menthols. Free over-the-air TV service is this Administration’s last concern.

  05/12/2011, 04:22PM
McAdams On: NAB 2011 Takeaway

It’s a good time to have a Republican former senator heading up the broadcast lobby. NAB chief Gordon Smith has as much of a chance as anyone could to stall spectrum incentive auction authorization in the House. Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake said delaying authorization could ultimately make things worse in 10 years. But holding off for another year gives everybody the chance to look at the FCC’s mathematics, while the late MSTV’s Victor Tawil figures out an even more complicated channel repacking plan.

To infer that broadcasting is an inefficient use of the spectrum per se is simply disingenuous. The least the Administration could do is admit that by “inefficient” it’s referring stock dividends. Otherwise, logic dictates that alternative means of deploying broadband across the country would be proffered.

  05/12/2011, 04:09PM
McAdams On: Platform Overload

Everyone knows how the Internet changed news prima facie from a relatively standard commodity to a free-for-all. But it also fractures stories into their smallest respective parts in order to keep the headlines rolling. It’s less about substance than speed. Dots, therefore, are left disconnected.





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“The first time Janet Jackson was on our show, I was stupefied—no one from her camp ever came back to the room to talk to us about the mix." SNL associate mixer, Josiah Gluck


 
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