When one tries to get a grasp on what the Disney/ABC Television Group is doing with it’s new master control and playout system, think of it as moving from “Channel in a Box” to “Channel in the Cloud.”
In 2012, when Schurz Communications (of South Bend, Indiana) was looking to upgrade its station KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, it knew exactly which system integrator to call. BeckTV, based in Austin, Texas, had worked with KTUU on several projects there some 20 years ago (1994) and it was time to…
Pixel Power has been chosen by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting Company (Weigel) to deliver 19 StreamMaster software defined graphics, playout and channel branding platforms.
America’s Emergency Network, LLC (AEN) of Washington, D.C. announces an Advanced Emergency Information (AEI) network using ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV. With the introduction of AEN, authorized alert originators such as the National Weather Service, ShakeAlert and local emergency managers will be able to send actionable, geo-targeted rich-media messages even w…
In late October 2021, WNYZ-LD, began broadcasting ethnic programming to New York City and Long Island, NY with the ATSC 3.0 system. The FCC modified the station license to Next-Gen status on March 22, 2022. The 3 kW ERP TV Ch. 6 station is licensed to Sound of Long Island Inc. and transmits both TV and…
Brazilian Mediatech Company Globo has selected Grass Valley’s GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) to produce and stream over 50 live sports and entertainment events. In 2022, Globo expects to produce over 200 live sports, entertainment and news events using GV AMPP.