Tom Butts

First off, let’s dispense with the niceties. All of this talk within the broadcast community about how consumers will react to the quality of 4K/UHD pictures is just that: talk.

By 2020, global mobile data traffic will reach 30.6 exabytes per month, (up from 3.7 exabytes in 2015), with video consuming 75 percent of that data traffic.

Even after sitting through the umpteenth PowerPoint presentation, our community still prefers to obtain and share its expertise through personal contact.

Nov. 16, 2017 could go down in the annals of the U.S. television broadcast history as a fateful day for our industry.