James E. O'Neal

With the advent of HD and now the Blu-ray home entertainment business, some of this material could be a prime candidate for repurposing and a new revenue stream for its owners.

15th annual conference to cover everything from 3D to 300-frame video

But engineers at a SMPTE panel also said the stations were about as prepared as they could be.

Consultant issues wakeup call

Network tests aspect ratio technology

The FCC this week issued an official green light to implement DTS, a technology that closes holes in a digital television station’s service area.

Topics discussed in the town hall type forum ranged from response to transmitter availability to cable and satellite provider readiness.

The clock is ticking on yet another federal broadcasting mandate. This one does not involve digital television per se, but rather all television in the U.S., both analog as well as digital.

AFRTS offshoot expands distribution, programming

The exhibit floors were open for a total of 33 hours and there were more than 3,500 exhibitors. If I did the numbers correctly, that works out to about 34 seconds of face time with each exhibitor.

It’s the annual “Hamvention,” regarded as the hamfest of hamfests, attracting radio amateurs from virtually every state in the nation and many foreign countries...

Broadcasters, industry consultants and other invited guests were treated to a special tour of the Harris Broadcast research facility here on May 16

Seems that the country’s Emergency Alert System has been in the news quite a bit lately, and not always in the best way.

Station to use OFDM modulation

SMPTE covers a century of the format's evolution

Latest testing event probes STL and SFN specs

The Midwest Next-Gen TV Summit brought together some of the top industry names to discuss implementation of the new ATSC 3.0 standard.

A former DoD employee explains the emerging science