Paul McGoldrick

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

There is a lot you can deduce from NAB2005, and there is a lot more that is not nearly so obvious unless you are in a position where you can sit back and look at it all objectively

Engineers know how to do their jobs, but are often prevented from doing it by misguided managers trying to save money.

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.

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.

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,

Reality TV is about something other than just reality. Once you've made people eat squirming bugs or jump between airplanes, and stripped them of all

In some cases, we actually had to design and build the equipment ourselves

Some international standards are neither international nor standard

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

Here’s your chance to be a Monday-morning quarterback and save the game.

Merging two or more companies can be tricky business. Here are two big no-no’s to consider

The rise of talk television and its spin is because the networks have failed to do their jobs

A while back, I was offered the opportunity to rebuild an AM transmitter station that I had originally installed. It was destroyed accidentally when an

Web sites for news broadcast stations can be a huge source of revenue, however, resources must be utilized for success

The importance of employee stock option programs in the world of electronics has never been questioned by those companies that want to attract and retain

It seems that whatever the FCC says about 8-VSB and COFDM, the issue is not going away.

So, we have passed the magic date when our nation's DTV rollout was supposed to be complete, and we are a quarter of the way there in terms of the number of stations on-air.

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

When I read analysts' reports, I often wonder if we've visited the same company. Having a title like Industry Watcher gives me an inherent right, I believe,

Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects are; applying labels to tell you what things might become is at best confusing - and, at

Different cable systems will not necessarily be able to bring their receivers with them. Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects

A lot of people opened Christmas packages last month to the requisite oohs and aahs and found the latest generation of electronics staring back at them.