transmission

In my last column I discussed some of the papers presented at the 2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium related to the FCC TV spectrum repack. This month I’ll look at presentations that covered broadcast TV antennas.

One of the first questions to come up as broadcasters consider their options for auxiliary, interim and final DTV facilities is “How much will this impact my coverage?”

Eat your heart out Usain Bolt, because PSSI Global Services has reportedly successfully transmitted a 10-path, multiplexed, HD feed via satellite from Toledo, Ohio, to Charlotte, N.C., and back in 1.09 seconds.

The time where U.K. producers will have to go with completely tapeless transmission deliverables is coming up, so the Digital Production Partnership has released a special guide for them.

If there were any television transmitters on the NAB Show floor that used IOTs or other tubes, I did not see them.

High-power transmitters continue their evolution from IOT devices of 15-20 years ago to increasingly solid-state devices.

The College Football Playoffs National Championship game concluded in thrilling fashion back in January and viewers got to watch in part thanks to PSSI Global Services.

Getting all action of the 2016 USA Wakeboard Collegiate Nationals to stream to fans all around the country was key for event organizers, so to help achieve that goal from the Orange Beach, Ala., location, the production team utilized LiveU’s portable backpack for transmission.

Broadcasters have begun installing the first of several UHF antennas atop the spire of One World Trade Center as plans to move transmission facilities from the nearby Empire State Building—home to New York-area TV broadcasters since 9/11—get underway.

In the reality series “The Runner,” it wasn’t just the games eponymously named participant who was trying to make it across the U.S. while teams try to track him down, but its daily footage as well.

In the past, I have written about out-of-band (OOB) interference between ATSC signals in different bands: the low VHF band into a high VHF channel and a high VHF band ATSC into a UHF channel.

LiveU has unveiled a new addition to its product slate, the LU600 portable transmission unit.

Imagine Communications has announced that it is assisting Taiwanese broadcaster Formosa TV with the installation of an end-to-end playout system at the broadcaster’s new transmission control center.

During the Rio de Janeiro Olympics earlier this month, Russia’s national sports channel, Match TV, relied on TVU Networks’ video transmission technology to provide live coverage.

A large number of the networks that will be bringing college football to fans this season are taking a play from the same playbook, utilizing PSSI live transmission services.

Marquette University’s communications team is utilizing TVU Networks’ cellular video technology to share live footage from its campus to a range of media outlets across the country.

Many stations will replace transmitters, RF systems, line and antennas as part of the channel repack after the incentive auction and it makes sense to select gear that will work for ATSC 3.0.

PSSI Global is crossing the aisle, announcing that it will provide satellite transmission and digital encoding services for both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in July.