ATBA Board Meets With FCC Chairman Pai
Members of the Executive and Advisory Boards for the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Thursday, July 6, 2017 to discuss permanence for low power […]
NAB: Dump Kidvid Requirement For Diginets
From TV NewsCheck [www.tvnewscheck.com] The NAB has asked the FCC to drop the requirement that broadcasters air air three hours a week of children’s educational and information programming on their […]
NAB Joins Broadcast Groups Commenting on FCC’s Proposed Elimination of Main Station Rule
On July 3, 2017, National Association of Broadcasters joined many broadcast groups filing comments on the Federal Communication Commission’s proposal to eliminate the main station rule that went into effect […]
DTV America To Be Acquired By HC2
DTV America announced recently that it has entered into a series of transactions to sell the majority of its common stock to HC2, Holdings Inc. and is awaiting FCC approval […]
T-Mobile Steps Up To Help With Costs for Displaced Public LPTVs
LPTV stations and translators were excluded from the $1.75 billion fund set up to help recover moving costs for displaced stations who will be displaced by the repack. Fortunately, […]
FCC Proposes Boosting Video Description by 75 Percent
By Deborah D. McAdams WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission is looking to bump up its video-description requirement by 75 percent. The commission will consider a Report and Order at its July […]
Hitachi-Comark Raises RF Questions Ahead of Repack
By Hitachi-Comark Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark LLC has a long standing history in the broadcast TV market. COMARK started more than 45 years ago manufacturing RF components for UHF transmitters […]
Hungry Mobile Video: Will Next-Generation TV Feed the Beast?
BY MYRA MOORE Bandwidth-hungry video is viewed as an insatiable beast by those who are delivering it over crowded networks. Better compression and mobile network advances have relieved some congestion […]
Now in its fourth season, there’s no end in sight for the Dodgers’ TV blackout
By Bill Shaikin Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to start for the Dodgers on Monday. In theory, the fans that cannot attend the game at Dodger Stadium can gather ‘round their […]
Repack Phase Zero? You Could Be In Trouble
By Phil Kurz Many TV broadcasters have an unpleasant reality in store for them as the spectrum repack gains momentum — one that may take some by surprise, says Karl […]