James Careless

The American Cable Association has petitioned the FCC to either deny or put conditions on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s $90 million purchase of eight New Age Media TV stations

The FCC’s proposed elimination of the sports blackout rule could drive major league sports off broadcast television and onto Pay-TV, warns the NAB

On May 31, 2013, Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes and two teammates miraculously survived after their “Tornado Hunt 2013” vehicle was thrown 200 yards in an EF5 tornado in El Reno, Okla.

The advent of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) has exponentially boosted the carrying capacity of this medium, at the expense of coverage.

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.

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

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.

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

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

TV news: 1, Blizzard: Zero. That’s the score in the wake of the freak November 2014 snowstorm that dumped up to seven feet of snow onto Buffalo and surrounding areas.

Rogers Communications has a lot of exciting plans for covering NHL hockey over the next 12 years, after paying the league $5.2 billion to win the “Hockey Night in Canada” rights away from CBC-TV.

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.

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

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

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.

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