Latest articles by James O'Neal
Keep Your Transmitting Plant at Peak Operation
Just as with periodic tower inspections, regular preventative maintenance can keep you on the air without interruptions.
Protecting Your Facility From Lightning Strikes – Part Two
Broadcast transmitting towers are ideal targets for lightning strikes
Tektronix’s WFM2300 Waveform Monitor
Tektronix has been making monitoring and test gear almost as long as I’ve been around...
Is Your Broadcast Facility Ready For a Power Surge?
Guarding against ‘microsecond invaders,’ Part I
A Brief History of the NAB Show
Next month, many of us will be heading forLas Vegas and the NAB Show.
2016 Product Preview: Signal Processing
Now that we’re solidly in the “digital era,” a lot of things have changed about how we do television.
ATSC 3.0 DTV Standard Gets Far East ‘Test Drive’
History was made in Shanghai as a multinational group of television engineers gathered to perform systems compatibility testing of the ATSC 3.0 digital TV standard.
Preparing For TV’s Big Repacking Exercise
“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way….”
Ben Tongue, Television Engineering Pioneer, Dies July 4
Ben H. Tongue, co-founder of Blonder-Tongue Labs, died on July 4.
Museum Seeks Aid in Getting Vintage VTR to NAB Show
During my first year with TV Technology I had the pleasure of preparing a story commemorating the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the videotape recorder at what is now the NAB Show.
Heartland Video Taps Nevion Transport Stream Processors for Project Work
Heartland Video Systems is now deploying Nevion CP505 transport stream processors in integration projects.
Doesn’t Anyone Ever Build Anything Anymore?
Recalling part of what made broadcast engineering fun
NAB Show Product Preview: Signal Processing
The industry is quickly moving to IP connectivity, virtualization, higher and higher definition imagery, and other enhancements.
