posted by Deborah D. McAdams

21st Century Fox announced the appointment of Paul Cheesbrough to the role of chief technology officer.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and its subsidiary, ONE Media, are focusing on ATSC 3.0 receiver design and cross-platform user data collection.

Verizon said it tried out drone-based 4G LTE in its first-ever emergency management and disaster recovery exercise, plus it scoped out a venue and did a few tower inspections with unmanned aircraft.

ABC and the Disney channels are now available via Android TV.

Wireless provider Sprint is using spectrum valued at $16.4 billion for collateral for a $3.5 billion loan.

Verizon is taking to the air to enable its 4G LTE network.

ATSC members have ratified the Link Layer Protocol and Audio and Video Watermark Emission standards to be part of the ATSC 3.0 suite of 20 standards and recommended practices.

The FCC’s Media Bureau announces a limited beta test of the Incentive Auction Broadcaster Relocation Reimbursement System—FCC Form 2100, Schedule 399.

Shure is making its ULX-D and QLX-D mic systems available in VHF spectrum versions.

BlackMagic design is rolling out a new 4K duplicator, a studio viewfinder, a portable Ultra HD video recorder, a multiviewer, new micro converters and the latest version of DaVinci Resolve

Dolby and Netflix today announced they would be adding over 100 hours of high dynamic range programming to the streaming platform by August 2016.

LG Electronics and Sinclair Broadcast Group conducted their first over-the-air broadcast of advanced emergency alerting using the emerging ATSC 3.0 standard.

Tico is on the floor. Supporters of the compression technology will be demonstrating deployments across multiple applications, including UHD/4K over single 3G-SDI, SMPTE 2022-6 or VSF TR03.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers rang in some new donors to its Next Century Fund. YouTube, Fotokem, Netflix, and Bud Mayo join the list.