Michael Grotticelli
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Grass Valley unveils Grass Valley 2.0
By Michael Grotticelli published
It’s a risky move that was clearly necessary to distinguish Grass Valley from its competitors.

Looking back
By Michael Grotticelli published
Looking around the new CBS This Morning production studio at CBS in New York City, one is reminded of an earlier time, when the network ruled the news

BSI's distributed RF system
By Michael Grotticelli published
One of the biggest challenges to producing a live multi-venue event is coordinating all of the wireless signals and getting them back to the production

Sony Unveils New Compact XDCAM ENG Camcorder
By Michael Grotticelli published
The new handheld camcorder combines the benefits of a 1-inch type sensor and XAVC technologies.

HBO Experiment Could Smooth The Way For A La Carte
By Michael Grotticelli published
Several media reports have stated that Time Warner Cable will test a new program for its broadband-only customers to allow them access to HBO only via the Internet.

tvONE's New Scalers Let Users Define the Resolution
By Michael Grotticelli published
The company's new C2-2000 series firmware and software upgrades add pixel management and custom resolutions to the mix.

New LCD Monitors/Viewfinders From Nipros Announced
By Michael Grotticelli published
The HDF-HR500 and HDF-500 full HD color monitors/viewfinders are designed to mount directly to the Nipros HDS-300 camera rig.

Local Cable Provider Serves Viewers with Tightrope Media Technology
By Michael Grotticelli published
A new master control center, production truck benefit from multichannel scheduling, playout, and slo-mo instant sports replays.

Oklahoma's KWTV Broadcast Tower Is Coming Down
By Michael Grotticelli published
The station's transmission facilities are moving to a co-located tower in the city's northeast side.

LTE Spectrum Could Support Both Data and Video Transmission
By Michael Grotticelli published
LTE networks can be leveraged as both mobile broadband and digital TV broadcast networks, with a portion of the spectrum designated to each application.

Digital Nirvana Now Shipping Monitor IQ 4.0
By Michael Grotticelli published
SmartSearch and SmartAlerts apps are among new features for Digital Nirvana's monitoring software.

Envivio Supports Transmission of Ultra HDTV Over the Air
By Michael Grotticelli published
The stunning 4K video resolution makes French broadcaster TDF's music video channel look like it is "popping right out of the screen."

New Video Enhancing Service Looks to Find Ghosts
By Michael Grotticelli published
Inventor wants to give users the ability capture video proof that they are actually seeing paranormal activity

Anticipating the Next Generation of TV Call-In Shows
By Michael Grotticelli published
An inventor and media executive looks to re-invent television production

KTVA Alaska Builds New Centralcasting Facility
By Michael Grotticelli published
The CBS affiliate upgrades with a collection of server and signal processing technologies from Harmonic

From space to earth in 260 seconds.
By Michael Grotticelli published
When Felix Baumgartner stepped out of his edge-of-space capsule, he entered the record books for both highest leap and fastest skydiver.

NAB’s Smith not certain how many stations will auction their spectrum
By Michael Grotticelli published

Grass Valley CTO on a mission to expand creativity
By Michael Grotticelli published
Karl Schubert brings a wealth of IT experience to his video industry job.

For multiplatform distribution, creativity trumps technology
By Michael Grotticelli published
Deployment strategies should focus on the business case scenarios of a media organization and what happens to files once they are ingested onto the network.

Intel set to launch its own television network later this year
By Michael Grotticelli published
The proposed TV network would offer both live and on-demand content, as well as smaller bundles of channels than those that are currently offered by cable operators.

“Zombies” attack Emergency Alert Systems of local TV stations
By Michael Grotticelli published
A strange message was broadcast as an Emergency Alert voiceover warning last week at CBS affiliate KRTV in Great Falls, MT. Other stations’ EAS equipment was hacked as well.

“Zombies” attack Emergency Alert Systems of local TV stations
By Michael Grotticelli published
A strange message was broadcast as an Emergency Alert voiceover warning last week at CBS affiliate KRTV in Great Falls, MT. Other stations’ EAS equipment was hacked as well.
Comcast to buy out GE’s interest in NBCUniversal five years ahead of schedule
By Michael Grotticelli published
As part of the deal, Comcast said that NBCUniversal would buy the NBC studios and offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, as well as the CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
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