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André V. Mendes is the Chief Technology Integration Officer for PBS, based in Alexandria, Va. He can be reached c/o TV Technology.
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The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise
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by John Footen, 4.14.2008
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We love our systems. Their growing complexity is something that, while it may awe us, we should all be concerned with.
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Embracing Change in the New World of IT
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by Michael J. Sutton, 1.23.2008
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The ability to embrace change is now mandatory in our business. Change is upon us, and we must be agile in the ability to adjust quickly and accurately.
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Digital TV, Sax and Violins
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by Mark Turner, 9.19.2007
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Feb. 17, 2009, is a date that is indelibly written in the minds of U.S. television broadcasters as it marks the projected end of analog television.
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Testing, Testing…Is This Thing On?
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by Mark Turner, 7.25.2007
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Once everyone assures the person speaking that the technology is doing its job, the meeting begins and nobody gives it a second thought. That is, unless something goes wrong later.
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Backing Up to the Future To Protect Assets
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by Mark Turner, 5.30.2007
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The title of this article may be reminiscent of a string of movies from the late 1980s, but this article has nothing to do with flux capacitors.
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Getting IT in Sync at NAB
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by Mark Turner, 4.02.2007
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You've probably noticed that there is a new name on the byline for the Count on IT column.
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Smart Management Amid Changing Times
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by John Footen, 0.00.2007
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“May you live in interesting times” is said to be an ancient Chinese curse. Well, if that is the case, then we are surely cursed in this era of television. Change is all around us: in our technology and in our business.
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Service, Support and Something Else
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by André V. Mendes, 8.23.2006
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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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So You Think You Want To Be a CTO
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by André V. Mendes, 5.24.2006
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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:
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And the Winner is...
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by André V. Mendes, 4.03.2006
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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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Broadcast IT: the Novelty Is Going, Going, Gone...
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by André V. Mendes, 2.22.2006
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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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Achieving Efficiency Through Standardization
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by André V. Mendes, 10.19.2005
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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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Garbage In...Considering Content Quality Control
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by André V. Mendes, 9.21.2005
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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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In-flight Changes
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by André V. Mendes, 6.22.2005
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Large mission-critical software deployment efforts are often compared to the task of changing engines on a jetliner during a flight.
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The ACE Design
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by André V. Mendes, 4.18.2005
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By the time you read this column, the complete overhaul of content workflow within public television will have started.
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Walking the Talk
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by André V. Mendes, 3.28.2005
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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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Change: Not for the Faint of Heart
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by André V. Mendes, 2.16.2005
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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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Change: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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by André V. Mendes, 11.24.2004
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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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AI: The Holy Grail!
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by André V. Mendes, 10.20.2004
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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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The Great Debate: To IT or Not to IT
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by André V. Mendes, 9.22.2004
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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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