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Date
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Story title |
| (08.23.06) |
Service, Support and Something Else
As the nature and essence of broadcast systems continues to migrate away from proprietary hardware solutions and onto standard off-the-shelf IT hardware, more importance is placed on the software layers riding atop those commodity platforms.
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| (05.24.06) |
So You Think You Want To Be a CTO
Recently, after talking at a conference, I was approached by a young man who asked me for some pointers on becoming a chief technology officer. Frankly, I am convinced that my impromptu answer was almost completely worthless but the question certainly started me thinking: |
| (04.03.06) |
And the Winner is...
A few months back, an interesting thread made its way to my e-mail. It pitted divergent opinions on the significance of the video iPod launch and all of the accompanying media coverage and water cooler buzz.
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| (02.22.06) |
Broadcast IT: the Novelty Is Going, Going, Gone...
Ever since I started reading them, technology related "expert" predictions have proven to be, at best, a thoroughly mixed bag of outcomes.
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| (10.19.05) |
Achieving Efficiency Through Standardization
By the time you read this, the ACE master control solution developed by the PBS Enterprise Technology Department will be installed and operating in three markets; on the verge of deployment in a fourth; and being readied to drive content distribution at PBS itself.
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| (09.21.05) |
Garbage
In...Considering Content Quality Control
In my last column, I described the initial stages of a five-year
project designed to bring traffic and scheduling at PBS in line
with the more rigorous demands of a new media world.
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| (06.22.05) |
In-flight changes
Large mission-critical software deployment efforts are often compared to the task of changing engines on a jetliner during a flight. |
| (04.18.05) |
The ACE
Design
By the time you read this column, the complete overhaul of content
workflow within public television will have started.
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| (03.28.05) |
Walking
the Talk
At the end of the day, it is one thing to talk about what needs
to be done and why, and another to actually put these concepts and
processes to work in one's environment. So that is what we will
tackle in my next few columns.
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| (02.16.05) |
Change: Not for
the Faint of Heart
Let me give you advance warning that this column will not have a
single reference to technology acronyms, performance or standards.
As a matter of fact, it may at first strike you as being misplaced
in a publication called TV Technology.
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| (11.24.04) |
Change: The
Good, The Bad and the Ugly
I was struck that some technologies I mentioned less than six months
ago are now being relegated to the dustbin of history by the introduction
of new products.
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| (10.20.04) |
AI: The Holy Grail!
As an industry, we are in dire need of integrated platforms that
will allow us to concentrate our energies on the pursuit of stakeholder
value rather than daily administration of needlessly complex and
disconnected sets of operational data.
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| (09.22.04) |
The Great Debate:
To IT or Not to IT
There it is. Sitting silently in the middle of the agenda, as inevitable
as rain on a holiday weekend or a bad reality show during sweeps,
the dreaded, "Does IT belong in your network center?"-moderated
panel.
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| (08.18.04) |
Multimedia
Consumers: Large and in Charge!
Let's examine some of the changes taking place within the walls
of these increasingly digital kingdoms we call homes
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| (07.21.04) |
Anything,
Anytime, From Anywhere
We promised to tackle the underlying need and processes that will
inevitably transform our broadcast infrastructures from static,
deterministic delivery mechanisms into flexible, nondeterministic
distribution engines. It may surprise you to know that such transformation
is well on its way.
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| (06.23.04) |
From
Essential To Invisible
What is technology? Pose that question to 100 people and you will
certainly get 100 different answers. Before you read on, close your
eyes and think of three things you would characterize as technology.
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| (04.21.04) |
Security:
Viruses, Worms And Hackers, Oh My!
Much like the reliability issues that I have addressed in my previous
column, IT security in your broadcast environment is all about professional
administration and, contrary to popular belief, almost completely
independent from which platform you choose to deploy your applications.
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| (03.26.04) |
IT
in Broadcast: Dispelling the Myths
IT-based systems will continue to offer dramatic improvements in
price performance ratios, but they must be treated as the mission-critical
infrastructures that they have become.
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| (02.18.04) |
Supply Chain
Television: Using a Retail Approach
In these days of meteoric technological development, does in-depth
knowledge about a subject actually become a hindrance to real progress?
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| (01.21.04) |
Tomorrow's Television
Remains Elusive
The TV industry has been invaded -- "overwhelmed," some contend
-- by hordes of interlopers who want to overhaul the way television
is sent and seen.
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