Ten Years Later: NBC Sports’ Stamford Facility Grows With The Times January 30^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

It was ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, that NBCUniversal opened a new international broadcast center in Stamford Connecticut, as the home for NBC Sports. It served as a way to consolidate its growing employee base and the production activities of a number of physical assets the network owned…

Machine Learning (ML) For Broadcasters: Part 8 - AI And ML Drive TV UX Innovation January 25^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

AI, primarily Machine Learning (ML), is driving progress in the evolution of the UI (User Interface) for TV’s and other consumer devices, alongside other aspects of the overall UX (User Experience).

The OTT Lexicon For 2023: Part 1 - Is Our Terminology Getting A Bit OTT? January 20^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

The world of streaming is defined by acronyms like SVOD, AVOD, FAST, OTT and more. But this leaves gaps and confusion in what is included in our OTT services. For example, what does a service like BBC iPlayer include? What is watching the World Cup on RAIPlay called? Do we…

Vendor Spotlight: GatesAir January 20^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

GatesAir continues its TV (and Radio) transmission supremacy.

Compression: Part 4 - Introducing Motion Compensation January 12^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Here we introduce the different types of redundancy that can be located in moving pictures.

Vendor Spotlight: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark January 6^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark marks half century of serving the broadcast community.

Sustainability Of Streaming: How Does OTT Compare With OTA? - Part 3 January 6^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Parts 1 and 2 in this 3-part series analyzed the latest information about OTT and DTT energy consumption in the UK in the year 2021, concluding that there are important energy efficiency improvements to make in OTT, and some big decisions coming our way in DTT. Part 3 considers what some of the leading…

Waves: Part 4 - Complex Numbers January 5^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

In this part we look at the most elegant way of finding and defining a sine wave.

Machine Learning (ML) For Broadcasters: Part 7 - ML Automates & Extends Content Management January 3^rd 2023 - 09:30 AM

Machine learning and other aspects of AI are being used increasingly for various aspects of content management, including classification of assets and generation of metadata as the basis for future actions. ML is also being used on live content, especially user generated, for compliance and enforcing content moderation rules.

ONE Media Is Helping Navigate The Broadcast Industry’s Future For OTA Data Delivery December 30^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We discuss the roll out of ATSC 3.0 in the USA with Jerald Fritz, Executive Vice President for Strategic and Legal Affairs at ONE Media 3.0 - part of Sinclair Broadcast Group.