LARRY BLOOMFIELD

Florida is implementing a communications tax for DTH services beginning on Oct. 21. North Carolina included in its proposed 2001-2003 state budget a provision

Resilience may best describe how America treats adversity. It may also represent well how the broadcasters in New York City met this nation's most recent tragedy.

While a conventional LMS algorithm can cancel static ghosts, it will not handle dynamic ghosts. One of the major issues plaguing the acceptance of digital

Cost savings can be achieved through the consolidation of personnel from five or 10 stations into a single facility. With the spiraling costs of doing

Satellites are no different from any other taxable movable personal property. Los Angeles County Tax Assessor, Rick Auerbach recently planned to impose

The old saying is that only two things are for certain, death and taxes. To this, should be added The latter is probably truer than the former. This is

This year's Society for Information Display (SID) convention was a showcase for makers of display devices of every ilk. Exhibitors at SID are the people

Results showed clear, seamless transmissions from a network that communicates up to 45,000 times faster than modems currently in use. Internet protocol,

The Bush budget would impose an annual charge to broadcasters of $198 million for the use of legacy analog transmitters. President Bush is adopting a

A suggestion at recent Senate hearings that broadcasters need more time to transition to digital television was not well received by lawmakers. Even so,

The U.S. Court of Appeals has thrown out Federal Communications Commission (FCC) restrictions on the number of subscribers cable operators can serve.

Digital television offers broadcasters a number of interesting possibilities. One of them is the ability to transmit multiple standard-definition channels

ABC used a new unobtrusive digital camera in taping its newest venture into reality-based programming, "Hopkins 24/7."For the taping at John Hopkins Medical

Accommodations for those with auditory and visual impairments were given a boost by the FCC this summer as the result of two separate actions taken by

Video on demand (VOD) and interactive television (iTV) currently seem to be popular topics with broadcasters.

Accom will provide two turnkey broadcast equipment packages incorporating the Abekas 8150 Digital Vision mixer with Dveous digital video effects.

In the early days of broadcasting, “the patch panel” was the only way to get sources and destinations changed that were otherwise hardwired to each other.

Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, held a meeting in late October on how to speed up the DTV transition.

The rapidly evolving MPEG-4 standard reduces bandwidth and storage requirements and improves video quality relative to MPEG-2.

In a three-to-one vote in mid-October, the FCC made what could end up being a landmark decision.

Does 8VSB work? In a word, yes, but it needs all the help the technical community can give it to replicate the coverage of its grandpa - analog NTSC - and a whole lot more.