Michael Grotticelli

NAB Show Increasingly complex productions require adaptable, customizable technologies

The concept is both simple and revolutionary: “What if we let online viewers program their own CNN newscast, focusing on the stories that matter most to them?”

Disparate systems are communicating better thanks to open APIs developed by the hardware vendors.

Airing the Olympics gives the rights holder a ratings boost and provides marketing opportunities that can generate revenue beyond advertising dollars.

The network is prepared to lose $250 million televising this year’s Winter Games events.

The company is experimenting with a limited number of shows to test whether reducing the cost of programming will increase sales.

Sling Media developed its wireless application to make efficient use of 3G network bandwidth, and AT&T has tested it since mid-December.

P. Harris Morris is tasked with improving profits.

For all the marketing dollars thrown behind HD, Blu-ray is still a marginal technology when compared to DVD.

A former broadcaster himself, he was appointed to his FCC seat in 1974 by former President Richard M. Nixon.

The CBS layoffs come only a week after ABC News laid off 31 workers in broadcast operations and engineering.

The camera support maker received its first order in 1910.

Large volumes of edited video segments will be moved as files over fiber links using high-speed file transfer software.

The FCC’s ruling is part of a national shift on the reallocation of bandwidth.

The facility was originally conceived and built by Dole Food Chairman David Murdock to promote health and wellness programming.

The acquisition will augment ESPN���s use of virtual technology across its multiple platforms.

The new partnership has created additional business opportunities and broadcast capabilities for both organizations.

The price reductions, though good for consumers, are not so good for the manufacturers of TV sets.

Part of the company’s TV Anywhere initiative, the new beta test is being called Fancast Xfinity TV.

The NAB president said that broadcasting’s ability to serve one-to-many in small bandwidth segments realizes tremendous efficiencies that cannot be achieved by any other service.

The commission recommended allocating some airwaves from television broadcasters to wireless broadband.

CableCARD was the government’s attempt to open up the navigation market for video content.

The commission has no way to measure the outcomes of the tens of thousands of complaints it receives each year.

Most survey respondents said they would watch live news and weather programming while on the go.