NAB Chooses Five Finalists For Pilot Pitch Prize Competition
The National Association of Broadcasters has chosen five startup finalists for its PILOT Pitch Prize Competition, a live business-plan pitch event that will take place at NAB Show New York next month. The […]
South Carolina Public Broadcaster Chooses GatesAir For Repack Transmitters
The South Carolina Educational Television Commission is turning to GateAir for nine UHF and one VHF transmitter to support the statewide repack of 10 of its TV stations to new […]
Gray-Raycom Merger Spawns Station Acquisitions
TEGNA this week announced it will acquire Gray Television stations in Toledo, Ohio, and Odessa-Midland, Texas, for $105 million in cash, and E.W. Scripps said it would buy stations in […]
Finally Some Good News: Trust in News is Up, Especially for Local Media
After decades of declining trust in the press, coupled with relentless rhetorical attacks on the media by President Trump, there’s finally some good news: Trust in media is up since […]
FCC Helps Outlets Prep for Hurricane Lane
The FCC has activated its disaster information reporting system (DIRS) as Hurricane Lane bears down on the Hawaiian islands. At the same time, it has suspended its separate Network Outage […]
ARK Mediacom Launching the 5G of Broadcasting
August 21, 2018 – ARK Mediacom (ARK) announces its formation and partnership with Edge Spectrum Inc. (ESI). This new company will leverage the expansive spectrum footprint of ESI to deploy its next […]
Get Ready For Broadcast TV’s Next Generation
While next-generation technology may not always lead to the next generation of a business, industry or culture, it’s clear that local broadcast television stands on the precipice of a new […]
New Tech Spec For Broadcast, Online To Power Global Content Exchange Of Media
LONDON—The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) last week announced a new SMPTE technical specification building the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) that promises to make it possible to automate the content supply […]
Is SaaS Catching Up To The Demands Of Broadcasters?
NEW YORK—While the IT world has embraced software as a service and relied heavily on the cloud for offsite storage, the broadcast world has remained more apprehensive about moving away […]
TV, Radio Broadcasters: Now’s The Time To Register Your C-Band Downlink Sites
Broadcasters must protect their C-band satellite downlink sites from future interference and push back against plans that would completely rearrange the way the FCC allows C-band satellite channels to be […]