Deborah D McAdams

The broadcast lobby sent an Away Team to the Portals this week to urge regulators to resist the urge to open the entire broadcast TV band up for mobile wireless operations.

Adaptrum announced that Federal Communications Commission has certified its ACRS 1.0 TV white space solution with the Google TV white space database.

mberFin announced a new J2K ingest and transcode solution at CCW in New York.

The FCC previously announced that it would host a workshop on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, to discuss unlicensed spectrum issues related to the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction proceeding.

The feds favor “feasibility” over “optimization” in determining where displaced TV will go after the 2015 spectrum incentive auction.

Sales of mobile connected devices, specifically smartphones and tablets, will continue to contribute significant unit sales and revenue to the total CE bottom line in 2014.

Gannett said that KMOV-TV, the CBS and MeTV affiliate in the St. Louis market, would be sold in order to get the U.S. Department of Justice to OK its acquisition of Belo.

Each year starting in mid-January, we are inundated with a relentless tsunami-like avalanche of product announcements and press releases, which is to say, a lot.

Vizrt and never.no have built an integrated technology platform combining never.no’s Interactivity Suite and other social media toolsets with Vizrt’s live graphics systems.

Yospace has announced full support for captions in its live streaming technology, including its solution which allows Flash players to display HLS content.

Centralparq, a private cloud platform that’s part of Infostrada, announced a partnership with EVS to create an automated news and sports ingest workflow.

Pilat Media introduced the latest release of IBMS Rights, the company’s technology for centralized rights management across “all content distribution platforms,” it said.

Utah Scientific announced mobile router control apps for the iPad and Android tablets. The new apps give users yet another control solution for their Utah Scientific routing systems.

Patch system specialist Bittree unveiled a new set of product builders on its website that simplify the product specification process.

XenData will debut its new open standard LTO archive for Avid Interplay Production and its new X2500 LTO-6 workstation archive system at the NAB Show.

Fox has more of a chance demonstrating that Dish breached its contract rather than violated copyright law with the Hopper, according to a court opinion released today.

Aereo’s announcement follows its expansion earlier this summer to the Boston and Atlanta metropolitan areas.