CBS Television is adopting Sony's XDCAM professional disc technology as the ENG platform for CBS News and all 16 CBS O&O stations.

Seventy-five Sony XDCAMs are being delivered to CBS News in the wake of the network's decision to adopt the optical-disc system for its ENG platform. CBS News expects to be fully operational on the XDCAM platform by early next year. By 2006, CBS O&Os will also adopt the XDCAM. The estimated value of the deal is more th

CBS announced this week that its 17 owned and operated stations have adopted the Sony XDCAM HD format for their newsgathering operations. The CBS O&Os in Boston (WBZ) and Chicago (WBBM) will be the first to take delivery of the new cameras in March, followed by the other 15 stations over the next two years. The XD

The news channel is taking delivery of 10 PDW-510P XDCAM camcorders, seven PVW-V1 playback only XDCAM mobile decks, and eight PDW-1500 XDCAM compact decks

At the Sony pre-NAB press conference yesterday, Bob Seidel, CBS's vice president of engineering and advanced technology announced that the network would convert all 17 O&O stations to Sony's XDCAM HD format, upgrading from its current XDCAM format. WBZ in Boston and WBBM in Chicago will be the first stations to receive