ANTHONY R. GARGANO

The film industry has perfected to a science the maximization of revenue of its movie libraries. Initially, revenue is generated through a release timeline

Have you noticed the abatement in hype surrounding 3-D TV? The question cries out: What has happened to last year's declared breakthrough technology of

In May of this year, I joined about 30,000 others from around the world to converge in, of all places, Dayton, OH. Why would so many people from all around

One wonders if there is anything at all in Washington that isn't broken. Dysfunctional government has dropped the American public's approval rating of

Is the broadcast community asleep at the switch? It certainly appears so. H-e-l-l-o-o?! Are you awake out there? Microsoft, Google, the Consumer Electronics

Watch out for this ATSC-M/H competitor

Some recent newspaper headlines include: WUSA Drops Weekend Morning Newscasts, in the Washington Post on Jan. 7; WYOU-TV Pulls Local Newscast in the Republican

For years, analog NTSC just chugged along with relatively simple routing and switching requirements. The future-proofing challenge when laying out a new

We are days away from completing the long journey to the promise of DTV. Originally, the great analog switch-off was never planned to be such. The initiative

Last month, the ATSC announced the elevation of its Draft Document A153, Specification for Mobile Digital Television, to the status of candidate standard.

Having spent the bulk of a career on the equipment supply side of the broadcast industry, I have been through a number of business cycles. One lesson

Put the financial geniuses in charge of the asylum, and they will invariably come up with the worst of ideas that favor short-term, bottom-line results.

For years, the mainstay tools of television engineers in stations and facilities all around the country have been the trusty waveform monitor and vectorscope.

In the broadcast industry, ultraconservative companies are a dying breed.

World technical and scientific knowledge doubles every 14 months to every five years. The broadcast industry is a highly technologically driven profession,

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates reported on the imminent doom of television because of Internet-distributed

The premiere trade show event of our industry NAB may be happening as you read this. For manufacturers, trade shows represent two opportunities: the opportunity

Another NAB convention is once again Las Vegas history. If you did not have a chance to attend and envelop yourself in the latest in industry technology

What's a broadcast guy doing at a cable show? Spending several days at the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) annual expo in Philadelphia gave

Are you ready for active format descriptor (AFD)? Or maybe you're already sending it with your content. You should be. AFD codes will play a significantly

From the personal journal of Joe Broadcaster: Let's see. The DTV transition date is just a little more than six months away. The new antenna is in place.