Broadcast Engineering

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?

• By Lynn Kenneth Packer
  Nov 20, 2017

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.

• By Lynn Kenneth Packer
  Nov 8, 2017

Over the last 20 years or so, fixed telecoms service providers have undergone fundamental changes in the way they operate.

• By Olivier Suard
  Oct 27, 2017

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.

• By George Boath
  Sep 28, 2017

Before media organizations implement a drone program in the U.S., they should understand Part 107, the FAA rules and regulations for commercial drones.

• By Eric Ringer
  Sep 8, 2017

Viewer demand for better quality is far from a new phenomenon.

• By Tony Jones
  Sep 7, 2017

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.

• By James O'Neal
  Aug 10, 2017

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.

• By Mike Waidson
  Jul 31, 2017

A colleague of mine recently passed along a Reader’s Digest article titled “What are we going to do with TV?” from November 1950.

• By Bill Hayes
  Jul 19, 2017

Enhanced emergency information distribution is one of the major enhanced capabilities and potential benefits of Next-Gen TV.

• By Ed Czarnecki
  Jul 5, 2017

I expect most people have a general understanding of the law of diminishing returns.

• By Bill Hayes
  Jun 15, 2017

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.

• By James O'Neal
  Jun 7, 2017

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.

• By Clyde Smith, Fox, & Bob Zitter, NABA
  Jun 1, 2017

Video infrastructure is changing. Traditionally, broadcast infrastructure was entirely based on hardware. But as video content and service providers look to launch broadcast and OTT services faster, gain operational efficiencies and reduce OPEX and CAPEX, they are shifting to software-based and cloud workflows.

• By Yaniv ‎Ben-Soussan
  May 9, 2017

TV advertising has shown a surprising resilience to the massive paradigm shift driven by digital ubiquity, with annual ad spending predicted to hit $195B in 2017.

• By Gil Becker
  May 3, 2017

Although Television Hill is a very visible city landmark and is located adjacent to a major arterial into Baltimore traveled by thousands of vehicles each day, there is no signage to indicate exactly what it is and/or what takes place there.

• By James O'Neal
  Apr 20, 2017

For the past several years, the video industry has been promoting 4K and the inclusion of “HDR” (high dynamic range) to boost the dynamics of color.

• By Dan Slentz
  Apr 11, 2017

Without IT skillsets, broadcast engineers could become irrelevant

• By Sherrod Munday
  Apr 6, 2017