James Careless

NBC Sports Group will broadcast NASCAR, IndyCar and Formula 1 races in 2015, bringing in mobile production vehicles and equipment to cover the races.

Bonded-cell transmission technology has made live news remotes more affordable for TV stations, but every technology has its limits, and bonded-cell is no exception.

When will the snow stop falling? That`s the question that Boston TV broadcasters are asking themselves, as the city continues to dig out from one blizzard after another.

Advances in recent years in integrated channel playout systems—along with the advent of OTT services—are shaking the foundations of traditional brick-and-mortar broadcasting.

The ITU’s approval last month of the G.fast data transmission standard—which can deliver data through copper phone lines at speeds up to 1 Gbps—good news for proponents of 4KTV.

In late April, DirecTV began broadcasting MLB Network Showcase baseball games in 4K, available to DirecTV Premier and Ultimate subscribers equipped with 4K set-top boxes.

erving video to multiple distribution platforms (broadcast, Web, and mobile) using automated program playout has never been more complicated for TV broadcasters.

It’s official: the Consumer Electronics Association has announced its industry definition for High Dynamic Range compatible video displays.

Despite the growing call to move media to the cloud, most broadcasters and post houses are sticking with local data storage, according to broadcast equipment vendors.

“All broadcast vehicles will eventually become IP. It’s only a matter of time.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting that the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season will be “below-normal” in terms of storm activity.

Broadcasters are starting to embrace video over IP using software-defined networks, virtualized cloud processing, and software-defined infrastructure.

The move from videotape to file-based video recording has resulted in unexpected chaos for TV stations both large and small.

Video over IP is becoming a staple of TV broadcast engineering, and the trend dominating new facility design.

For broadcasters adopting multiviewer technology in the production facility, being able to display multiple video windows on a single display is no longer enough.

Since the 1980s, IMG Productions has been providing facilities for major golf events such as the Masters, the PGA Championship, and the British Open Golf Championship.

This year’s BEC will look at how broadcasting is changing in a hybrid world of media consumption.

CBC and radio-Canada are adept at cutting their Olympic expenditures; they have to be, given continuing government funding cuts to their budgets.

With its planned coverage of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, NBC Sports Group is once again pushing the envelope of IP-based, multiplatform video production.

The MPEG-2 compression algorithm is an integral part of the ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard.

Ultra HDTV and 3G/1080p will be popular installation choices for U.S. sports production trucks by 2016. 1080i mobile sports production will endure, but 720p is on the way out.