Michael Grotticelli

NAB Show Increasingly complex productions require adaptable, customizable technologies

The NAB came out in support of the House Republican legislation.

For Visual Acuity, of Brighton, UK, the project has been more than a year in the making.

Affecting the broadcast industry is the disruption of hard drives and analog and discrete semiconductors.

The Commission will release its new rules governing loudness for broadcast and pay television by the end of the December.

The Senate Commerce Committee has set the date for the confirmation hearings of two new members of the FCC, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel.

DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts the dominant communications vehicle on the net would begin changing next year from mostly text to audio and video.

Sony has reportedly approached several major media companies to negotiate the rights to offer their TV channels over the Internet in the U.S.

The Comcast Media Center is providing turnkey services to distribute the sports network’s programming.

The rules governing newspaper/broadcast and radio/TV cross-ownership are being rewritten by the commission and are expected to be made public next year.

At issue is weather Google’s popular video service is protected from copyright infringement claims.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has revealed new technical specifications for Ultra High Definition Television.

The Commerce Committee legislation would create incentive for television broadcasters to give up their spectrum for government auction.

The decade-long deal helps Kodak narrow a cash shortfall and advances a goal of generating $250 million to $350 million in revenue this year from licensing intellectual property.

The NAB and the CTIA have asked Congress to stop a proposal to impose fees on some spectrum holders.

The company says that mobile broadband subscriptions grew by 60 percent in one year.

Chyron has slashed prices and donated engineering time to equip the new student newsroom.

Although grant money for CapEx projects is rapidly going away, stations still have operations (OpEx) budgets that are renewed each year.

Because they all use the same code base, the addition of 64-it processing is included in Avid's Symphony Nitris 6 and NewsCutter 10 products as well.

The winning companies are all involved with helping to develop the Active Format Description specification.

About $7 billion has been allocated in grants and loans for broadband build-out, adoption and education.

The APTN Direct service covers and supplies breaking news to nearly 200 broadcasters worldwide.

Sony has told theater owners it will cease payments for 3-D glasses next summer.

The new 4S model features Apple's dual-core A5 chip, the same used in the iPad 2.

The companies said they are not merging, but their traffic will be reported together and the partnership will be a deep collaboration in news production.