Consumers in the digital age are quick to adapt new media consumption habits as new media and methods of accessing it and interacting with it evolve. Every media technology must innovate and compete or become obsolete.
For broadcast television, this challenge is practically existential. The broadcast model of one-to-many for…
The broadcast industry is undergoing significant changes that impact nearly all aspects of business and technical operations. In this Q&A sit-down, Ian Valentine, engineer and business director, Video Products at Tektronix discusses three major trends impacting the broadcasting industry, covering both content production and delivery. As Valentine explains,…
Broadcast television is the point where the creative arts and technology meet. It’s different from any other discipline as to operate at an optimum level, and get the best possible quality, artisans, producers, and creatives have a deeper technical understanding of their craft than any other artistic discipline. And o…
When setting up new audio monitors in a studio, their placement is an important choice in the successful operation of the monitoring system. Since no two rooms sound the same, here are a few tips to make the installation easier.
U.S. broadcasters are required to keep logs and, in some special cases, self-report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prove compliance with FCC rules related to, among many other things, emergency alerting. Organizations failing to do so face increasingly significant fines. That’s why it’s so important for…
UHD rollout has been average rather than stellar to date. Matthew Goldman, Senior Vice President, Technology, Media Solutions, Ericsson provides an insightful explanation about why this might be and what issues might tip the scale.
Historically, broadcast-related activities had to located near the actual broadcast production chain. But with the advent of cloud services, many auxiliary broadcast services can be located anywhere.
Media technology must deal with highly variable demand for time-sensitive work that involves geographically distributed locations, while operating on extremely large professional media files. These inflexible and harsh demands make the agility and cost effectiveness of cloud-native SaaS particularly relevant.
Due to advances in IP content delivery and production crew collaboration, new virtual tools are augmenting the connected studio. Broadcasters are now able to customize studios and workflows with virtual interfaces that talk directly to anything that touches the IP audio network. They’re replacing hardware newsrooms with virtual mixers, m…
Sometimes — when boom or lavalier mics aren’t appropriate — engineers must record good audio with microphones hidden on a set. This can be a challenge. Here’s a look at how to hide microphones for maximum effect.
