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Broadcast Engineering
TV, Radio Broadcasters: Now’s the Time to Register Your C-band Downlink Sites
Completing the FCC site registration form is the first step in protecting the C-band
SBE Announces 2018 Chapter Awards
Radio World contributor Mark Persons takes home Chapter Engineer of the Year award
SFNs: ATSC 3.0 a Great Enabler for an Old Technology
Digital television technology eliminates the old “ghost” problem for single-frequency networks
ATSC and SBE Developing ATSC 3.0 Certification
New Specialist level of SBE certification will assess proficiency in the Next Gen TV standard
GatesAir Debuts Program to Teach RF Fundamentals
New training initiative intended to fill in gaps for younger engineers with IT backgrounds
The Advantages of Cloud-Based Closed Captioning
Tech eases the way for content creators and FCC compliance
The Future of 5G and IP-ENG
The quality and reliability of cellular networks has incrementally grown over the life of that technology, denoted principally in Gs (for generation), as in “1G,” “2G,” etc.
Is It Live, or Is It Automated Speech Recognition?
This question of real versus artificial can be applied to the captioning industry, too, as technology has enabled speech recognition software to compete with humans to create captions.
Are Smartphones the Future of TV News? Part 2
If smartphone newsgathering really is the wave of the future and not some pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, which television station or network will be first to catch that wave and dump most of its ENG systems and methods into that same bone yard we piled film cameras, processors, Moviolas, splicers and film chains back in the 70s?
Are Smartphones the Future of TV News?
Even though news consumers are increasingly turning from conventional television to the internet for news, the good news is they’re also demanding more video.
What Broadcasters Can Learn from Telcos About IP
Over the last 20 years or so, fixed telecoms service providers have undergone fundamental changes in the way they operate.
To Cloud or Not To Cloud? Is That the Wrong Question?
In under 10 years, the concepts of public cloud computing and virtualization of computing resources have disrupted all of the perceived wisdoms of IT system design.
What Broadcasters Need to Know About Using Drones
Before media organizations implement a drone program in the U.S., they should understand Part 107, the FAA rules and regulations for commercial drones.
Harnessing a New Opportunity: The Transition to IP in the Contribution Space
Viewer demand for better quality is far from a new phenomenon.
Confessions Of A Tall-Tower Worker
Paul Fitts is one of the very few U.S. communications tower workers qualified to handle “tall” tower jobs, a skill that’s now very much in demand due to the on-going spectrum repack.
Capturing and Monitoring HDR Signals With a Waveform Monitor
Many of today’s cameras can capture a wide dynamic range that, unfortunately, will be clipped or blown out when shown on a standard dynamic range display.
What Are We Going to do With TV?
A colleague of mine recently passed along a Reader’s Digest article titled “What are we going to do with TV?” from November 1950.
ATSC 3.0: A New Value-Added Approach for Emergency Information
Enhanced emergency information distribution is one of the major enhanced capabilities and potential benefits of Next-Gen TV.
4K for Broadcast: Is it Worth the Expense?
I expect most people have a general understanding of the law of diminishing returns.
World’s TV Engineering Leaders Gather in Italy
More than 100 of the best minds in the field of television engineering have gathered here for the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) conference.
Common File Specifications—Now It’s North America’s Turn
The 2011 tsunami that ravaged Japan was horrific. The loss of 16,000 lives was tragic and the Fukushima nuclear power plant destruction was devastating.