Deborah D McAdams

New chairman Pai hopes for approval ‘later this year’

The Federal Communication Commission is restarting the TV spectrum incentive auction at a lower clearing target.

CNN announced this week that it became the first organization to be granted a waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly unmanned aerial systems over people in the United States.

Participation in Stage 2 will be limited to those broadcasters with one or more stations reaching the status of “frozen—provisionally winning.”

"I want to make it clear—the recent announcement was a culmination of almost two full years of research, planning, testing and preparation." ~ Greg Advent

These parties had registered unlicensed devices for use in TV white spaces as of March 19, 2015, according to Google.

The Aereo saga wound down in late April to a likely conclusion, with the bankrupt start-up paying a $950,000 settlement to the broadcasters whose signals it tried to resell.

CBS Sports Network is joining Verizon’s customized FiOS TV lineup, the broadcaster said Monday just as reports emerged that ESPN is suing over the new channel packaging scheme.

Avid announced a number of enhancements to its audio, editing and content management platforms.

GatesAir will demonstrate a new compliance and monitoring innovation in partnership with Qligent, a QoS/QoE specialist focused on cloud-based monitoring, at the 2015 NAB Show.

ABC’s being going IP while the rest of the industry bats it around like a cat toy.

On Monday at 4 p.m., NAB Labs will present a press conference introducing the 2015 NAB Labs Futures Park participants, featuring the latest innovations in media technology from around the world.

Technicolor and Sinclair Broadcast Group have announced a successful demonstration of UltraHD with high dynamic range live broadcast based on proposed ATSC 3.0 technologies.

WABC-TV, Disney’s flagship ABC station, is asking federal regulators to enforce interference protection measures against Verizon.

Regulators are trying to circumvent potential problems with LTE-U, a version of the cellular transmission standard intended for unlicensed use.

Chris Lennon, SMPTE Fellow and “father” of the broadcast exchange format, took a practice lap on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb course last Friday.

Samsung, Pearl TV and Sinclair Broadcast Group are collaborating on how to deploy the next-generation broadcast standard and what to do with it.