Deborah D McAdams

Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee have elected three industry executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning January 2014.

TV and radio broadcasting was less of an irritant to people in the second quarter of the year compared to the first.

SMPTE announced the individuals who will lead program organization and execution for 2014 events.

In August 2013, Rohde & Schwarz was chosen to equip the TV network in the State of Qatar with DVB-T2 technology.

New data released today by the Consumer Electronics Association found that 61 percent of U.S. adults plan to shop during the Thanksgiving holiday, the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

Hanson comes to Sinclair from the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, where she was senior advisor on broadcast spectrum and served on the Incentive Auction Task Force.

Kimmelman was chief counsel at the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, and more recently, director of the Internet Freedom and Human Rights project at the New America Foundation.

For one brief moment, there was agreement in the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Tuesday during a hearing on a rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

Ross Video is starting its “Ruby Anniversary” with an updated look that includes a new corporate logo and new tagline – ‘Production Technology Experts.’

The announcement comes a week after the Supreme Court said it would hear the case brought by broadcasters against Aereo for retransmitting signals without a contract.

The post-incentive auction TV channel repack will not resemble the one completed for the 2009 digital transition, according to Rick Kaplan of the NAB.

The six newly elected industry leaders will be inducted during the annual Cable Hall of Fame Celebration, held in conjunction with The Cable Show 2014, April 29 – May 1, 2014, in Los Angeles.

BIA/Kelsey predicts total U.S. local media ad revenues will grow from $132.9 billion in 2013 to $151.5 billion in 2017.

The upgrades include two Tightrope Media Systems ZePlay solutions to drive slo-mo instant replay and sports video to more than 1,200 screens.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers announced that the organization has elected new officers and governors, who will take office on Jan. 1, 2014.

Adm. Simpson was most recently the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., has chosen the Dejero LIVE+ Mobile App for video newsgathering, according to the vendor.

Gary Epstein will become the chairman’s special advisor on the incentive auctions as he continues as chair of the Incentive Auctions Task Force.