Paul McGoldrick

Because technology has provided tools for everybody, we have had a generation believe that, with no creative skills, everyone can become a desktop publisher.

The Web is a wonderfully flat playing field for selling and advertising your company’s products, unless you make mistakes.

If you've ever been near a White House communications crew, for example, you will find that whatever spectrum you think you have been allocated has been commandeered for other uses.

Whatever Napster's state when you read this, there seems to be a universal regard by commentators that things will never be the same. They are saying

The UK’s “TV Licence” is a holdout from the theory that any use of the spectrum makes the user into a “station”… and therefore should be taxed.

Engineers should take blame for not getting out there to be proactive in promulgating ourselves. I asked my seven-year-old daughter today what she thought

The implications of this technology are quite staggering and maybe even offer a lifeline for some small market stations. Although news out of Los Alamos

Great ideas from many companies emerged as what we know as the ATSC''s DTV standards. But, like all standards allowing too much flexibility, this one has been doomed to failure.

I entered the world of broadcasting in September 1963 when I was hired as a technical trainee at the BBC. The Beeb paid me a salary and, at the same time,

We tend to think that we can do just about anything on the Web. But there's a curious thing that all providers of service avoid online: the ability to

Once uttered by a director or producer during a shoot, the problem, however big, goes away for the production crew and falls smack into the lap of the often-forgotten editing few

Terrestrial DTV and television tuners are growing in popularity with the spawn of 8-VSB reception and a new, growing antenna industry.

Pirates have been around for a long time in one way or another. The current trend is pirating the quality of broadcast TV stations, CDs and now DVDs with inaccurate marketing descriptions.

The timeline between the production shooting for a series of reality TV programs and the actual screening is finite, but never short. Because of the time

How many consumers, do you think, go out to buy an HD-ready TV and then drive it with the 480i output from one of these receivers?

It was tempting to title this column I want my MTV or some variant thereof. But the truth is, I don't want any MTV or MTV2 or even MTV Espanol. I do,

Will multicasting save terrestrial TV? Here’s one man’s dire prediction.

Entering 2004 we now have the $29.95 DVD player, while DVD recorders are reaching price levels where they are going to threaten the VHS machine.

For some reason, cutting corners has also replaced the very different task of cutting expenses in many areas of business, including broadcasting.

Maybe it's about time to start a movement to get the government to butt out of allocating broadcast licenses. Let's leave it to the market

Imagine you are working on this year's major home project (not that you really have time for it), and you decide to make a habit of not putting your tools

A new era in media ownership began on June 2 and resulted in consolidation of all types of media, especially television.