Virginia PBS Stations Hires CEI for DTV Transition Assistance

As part of its planned transition to DTV, the Hampton Roads, Va. PBS station WHRO has contracted Communications Engineering Inc. of Newington, Va. to provide design, engineering and integration services. CEI will help create a digital operation with 12 server-based, automated program channels with HD/SD-capable infras

Author:: TVTechnology
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Aug 7, 2002

As part of its planned transition to DTV, the Hampton Roads, Va. PBS station WHRO has contracted Communications Engineering Inc. of Newington, Va. to provide design, engineering and integration services.

CEI will help create a digital operation with 12 server-based, automated program channels with HD/SD-capable infrastructure and integrated multiterabyte nearline storage. A multidisplay monitor wall will integrate HD and SD program monitoring with signals testing and alarm systems that utilize SNMP network reporting. The design and integration turnkey effort will also involve new digital infrastructure, master control, editing and production facilities.

The DTV upgrade is slated for early fall completion, when HD programming will become a regular part of WHRO's broadcast offerings.

This month WHRO-DT, a Hampton Roads, Va., PBS station, told the FCC that it is not the source of interference to Salisbury, Md., CBS affiliate, WBOC.

Ken Miller and Vince Forcier, both veterans of the Washington D.C. post-production community, have now joined CEI's engineering team.

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He will manage CEI’s broadcast accounts

Hampton Roads, Va.-based WHRO and WBOC in Salisbury, Md., have settled a signal interference dispute that caused the Virginia public broadcaster's digital signals to interfere with WBOC's analog signal. The agreement calls for WHRO to operate at 1/4 of its authorized power (237.7 kW) during the DTV transition and, in

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