Broadcast Engineering

New Specialist level of SBE certification will assess proficiency in the Next Gen TV standard

Past president is a veteran TV and radio engineer

New training initiative intended to fill in gaps for younger engineers with IT backgrounds

Tech eases the way for content creators and FCC compliance

ATSC 3.0 and its implications on traditional linear TV

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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