Comcast Clarifies: No Plans To Announce New Usage Policies
Clarifying comments made at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communication Summit in New York on Wednesday that some misinterpreted as a firm commitment that Comcast would implement usage-based...
View ArticleCox Communications Kicks Off Plan to Offer Residential Gigabit Speeds
Cox Communications today announced the company's plans to roll-out gigabit Internet speeds across its markets nationwide. The company will start with new residential construction projects and new and...
View ArticleFacebook Launches Snapchat Competitor Slingshot
Facebook continues to expand its slate of consumer apps with the Tuesday launch of Slingshot, a Snapchat-like messaging service that lets people send self-destructing photos and videos to friends....
View ArticlePanasonic Launches New Camcorder
Panasonic has announced a new professional AVCCAM® HD handheld camcorder, the AG-AC90A, with significant improvements over its predecessor, the AG-AC90. Advances include two new recording options -- a...
View ArticleFCC Study Finds Internet Providers Often Don’t Deliver The Speeds They Advertise
Consumers of DSL services have the most reason to complain according to data in the FCC’s fourth Measuring Broadband America report out today. The study says that during the evening when usage is...
View ArticleVER Purchases Grass Valley Switchers to Expand its HD Offerings
Building upon its longstanding relationship with Grass Valley, global rental house Video Equipment Rentals has purchased two Kayenne Video Production Center switchers with K-Frame modular video...
View ArticleSinclair Selects Cartoni for Studio Operations
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates the country’s largest group of independent television stations, is relying on camera stabilization technology from Cartoni as part of an ongoing program to...
View ArticleJournal Broadcast Deploys LiveU Units
The Journal Broadcast Group has announced that it has deployed LiveU’s LU500 backpacks at its 12 stations to help expand the group’s newsgathering capabilities. The LU500 is the vendor’s newest...
View ArticleCEA Redefines "Ultra-HD"
In an effort to reduce consumer confusion, The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced updated core characteristics for what “ultra high-definition” TV should mean when you buy a CE...
View ArticleMiller Introduces New Tripods
Miller Camera Support has announced a new lightweight line of camera tripods called the Air Tripod System range, which includes the Air Alloy System (3001) and Air Carbon Fibre System (3005). The...
View ArticleMore Stations Adapting "Go Anywhere" Mobile Technology
When Tim Dietz began his career as a news photographer shooting 16 mm film, getting footage just shot into the station’s newscast involved a pedal to the metal drive back to the station and at least a...
View ArticleNBC Preps ND1 for NFL
When it came to building a new truck to cover the upcoming season of Sunday Night Football, the production engineers at NBC began with a premise in mind: space, space, space. Beyond the simple...
View ArticleIntelsat: 4K UltraHD Mainstream Within 5 Years
A global survey of media executives suggests that 4K Ultra High Definition Television is heading for broad adoption. The survey, conducted on behalf of satellite operator Intelsat, found that 63% of...
View ArticleVislink and TVU Bond ENG Paths for Improved Reliability
In the days of analog microwave, doing an HD remote was tricky at best and usually impossible. Once broadcasters fit up with digital microwave (mostly as a result of the Sprint BAS relocation...
View ArticleSony Unveils $10,000 4K Digital Camera
Sony has extended its professional 4K line with a new camera aimed at indie features, documentaries, reality TV and other nonscripted work. The PXW-FS7 4K XDCAM Super 35mm camcorder weights just under...
View ArticleThe New ‘Hybrid’ ENG News Truck
For the past half-dozen years, bonded cellular technology—the backpack liveshot systems using the cellphone systems for transmission—have garnered most of the attention of the TV news crowd. But in...
View ArticleVerizon Means Business with FiOS Upstream Upgrade
Matching what it’s already done on the residential side of its FiOS broadband house, Verizon Communications this week launched upgrades to FiOS Internet tiers for small business customers that...
View ArticleNew Rules Proposed for Satellite and Uplink Operations
The FCC has released a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) that would make several changes to Part 25, the portion of the FCC rules dealing with satellite and satellite earth station...
View ArticleFuturecast Broadcast System Tested at WKOW
As the Advanced Television Systems Committee works on the next generation ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, proponents of the new Futurecast Universal Terrestrial Broadcasting System conducted the second...
View ArticleVerizon's Mobile Network ‘Ready’ For LTE Multicast
Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo reiterated the company’s bullish stance on LTE multicast, a bandwidth-friendly way to deliver live TV to mobile devices, but said it’ll be another year before a...
View ArticleSamsung Unveils Plans for 4.6 Gbps Wi-Fi
Samsung says it has developed commercially viable 60 GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology using the 802.11ad standard that enables data transmission speeds up to 4.6 Gbps. At these speeds, a 1 GB...
View ArticleQualcomm Granted Licenses to Test 3.6 GHz LTE in Three States
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has granted three experimental licenses to Qualcomm Technologies to test C-band 4G/LTE equipment. License WH2XIN allows mobile operation in San...
View ArticleSinclair and Technicolor Do ATSC 3.0 4K Over-the-Air Broadcast
Sinclair Broadcast Group and Technicolor delivered an industry first by successfully deploying Technicolor’s ATSC 3.0 4K UltraHD testbed platform and receiving an over-the-air signal. The Technicolor...
View ArticleDejero Releases Live+ NewsBook Software for Mac
Dejero, award-winning creator of the industry's most powerful and versatile family of mobile newsgathering products, announced the debut of its LIVE+ NewsBook software for Mac notebooks. The new LIVE+...
View ArticleNBC Owned Stations Debut New iPhone Apps
The NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal today announced the launch of newly upgraded iPhone apps, now available to 32 million consumers in the 11 markets its stations serve across...
View ArticleGrass Valley Releases Ignite Version 7.5
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, continues to lead the way in automated production with the release of Ignite Automated Production version 7.5. New features of Ignite include powerful integration with...
View ArticleFiOS Mobile App Adds Channels to Its Out-of-Home Offering
For FiOS customers using the free FiOS Mobile App, 29 new Viacom and Fox channels are now available out-of-home.
View ArticleKTVX Using JVC LTE Cameras for HD Live Shots
KTVX-TV ABC 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (DMA #34), is using six JVC GY-HM890 ProHD shoulder-mount camcorders in conjunction with the JVC BR-800 ProHD Broadcaster server powered by Zixi to produce live ENG...
View ArticleWKBN-TV Launches New Set with Virtual Technology
WKBN-TV, the Media General owned CBS affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio, recently launched its groundbreaking approach of presenting news programming with Ross Video’s Virtual Solutions. The design process...
View ArticleWhat a Week - Learn from My Mistake
While the news never stops, it can sometimes take a moment to catch up. You may have noticed the lack of stories on New England One this week. That's certainly not because there isn't any news to...
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