Paul McGoldrick

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?

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

Handling employees that cause problems – for one reason or another – requires a delicate approach.

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

Some international standards are neither international nor standard

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

It seems hard to believe, but some of the retail speak is so “cunning” (in “Much Ado About Nothing” terms) that even I don’t understand it

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,