TV Stations Coping With Severe Weather But Keep The Reports Coming September 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Violent weather storms are wreaking havoc on the East Coast of the U.S. and radio and TV stations there are struggling to get the life-saving news out. In the past two months alone storms have knocked out TV antenna and broadcast towers at an alarming rate.

EU-Funded Group Looking To Productize 5G For Broadcast Production And Distribution September 9^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

For the past year an international group of technology companies, funded by the European Union (EU), has been looking into the use of 5G technology to streamline live and studio production in the hopes of distributing more content to (and from) viewers faster and more efficiently. Due to the restrictions…

Bringing The Olympic Games Home In An Innovative, Automated Way August 27^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Sitting at home watching the Olympics 400m Women’s hurdles final live on NBC’s 4K HDR channel, home audiences were captivated by the sweat and effort displayed on screen with immersive sound of the runners’ feet hitting the track. Viewers thousands of miles away could be excused for thinking they …

MLB “Field Of Dreams” Telecast Makes For Corny TV August 20^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Though mostly a publicity stunt, Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams Game live telecast on August 12th proved to be a hit for everyone involved—including the Fox Sports team and production company Game Creek Video—tasked with putting it on.

NBCU Decentralizes Resources To Produce And Distribute Olympic Games Live July 21^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Aside from being the first Summer Olympics to be delayed a year due to a pandemic—shifting technical plans and causing strict work-arounds to comply with health restrictions—this year’s live coverage by NBCUniversal (NBCU) is noteworthy for its move to all-IP operations within the International Broadcast Center (IBC) onsit…

Stand By For NDI 5 July 19^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

NDI Version 5 is loaded with highly anticipated new features and unseen capabilities, because it was announced a month ago and hasn’t been released yet.

Parts And Chip Shortages July 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

TV equipment manufacturers are doing what broadcasters do best: Creatively helping each other work through a difficult technical challenge.

With Easing Restrictions, Tech Companies Hoping For Quick Recovery May 26^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Over the past year, as broadcasters and production companies have expended great effort to reconfigure their workflows and develop new ways of working amid strict safety protocols, so too have the manufacturers of the technology and systems they rely on.

News Production Technologies Support Seamless Working From Home March 5^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

With the pandemic’s alarming numbers now decreasing, news anchors have carefully begun reporting from the studio again, albeit in separate parts of the building and socially distanced. However, the IP-enabled technology and remote workflows developed by equipment vendors across the industry during the worst of it have endured and w…

Super Bowl LV Is Live Production Industry’s Biggest Triumph February 2^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

When CBS Sports broadcasts images of the players taking the field on February 7th for Super Bowl LV to millions of viewers around the world, it will be the culmination of the most challenging season for live football sports production in the U.S.

The Back Of The Brain May Soon Rule The Roost March 22^nd 2023 - 10:00 AM

If industry reports are to be believed, Apple is poised to release a mixed-reality headset at some point in 2023. Of course, it’s anyone’s guess when Apple’s Reality Pro will actually see the holographic light of day, but one thing is worth noting: The advent of a mass-produced AR he…

Learning From The Experts At The BEITC Sessions at 2023 NAB Show March 21^st 2023 - 09:30 AM

Many NAB Shows visitors don’t realize that some of the most valuable technical information released at NAB Shows emanates from BEITC sessions. The job titles of all but one speaker in the conference are all related to engineering, technology, development and research.

Empowering Cloud Through Microservices - Part 2 March 20^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Achieving higher levels of scalability and flexibility demands a hybrid approach were microservices run in the cloud, on- and off-prem. Also, common APIs hide the complexity of the infrastructure from the user to provide a seamless operation.

System Showcase: Gravity Media Opens New Production Centre In London For Remote And On-Prem Projects March 16^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Production and media services company Gravity Media has just completed the first phase of technology integration at its new London Production Centre White City, located on the fifth floor of The Westworks building in London. The state-of-the-art facility, officially opened in February of 2022, is made up of production, post-production services,…

Interlace: Part 3 - Deinterlacing March 16^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Now that interlace is obsolete, we are left only with the problem of dealing with archive material that exists in the interlaced format. The overwhelming majority of video tapes, whether component or composite, analog or digital, would be interlaced.

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