Latest articles by James O'Neal
Keep Your Transmitting Plant at Peak Operation
Just as with periodic tower inspections, regular preventative maintenance can keep you on the air without interruptions.
Preparing For TV’s Big Repacking Exercise
“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way….”
2016 ‘Bits By The Bay’ Plays to Sell-Out Crowd
I recently wrote about the value (and necessity) of keeping up-to-date, especially in a broadcast engineering career.
NAB Show Product Preview: Signal Processing
The industry is quickly moving to IP connectivity, virtualization, higher and higher definition imagery, and other enhancements.
‘Knowledge Is Power’ Is True Now More Than Ever
I first heard the saying “nothing is more permanent than change” when I was a boy, (60 or so years ago).
2016 Product Preview: Signal Processing
Now that we’re solidly in the “digital era,” a lot of things have changed about how we do television.
Harris Announces Breakthrough in Television Router Design
Harris Broadcast has announced a new routing product that the company says is first to be able to scale to very large signal source/destination environments without ancillary distribution and cabling
Panasonic, Sony Report Q2 Losses
Recent financial statements issued by electronics giants Panasonic and Sony are still showing lots of red ink.
NHK Broadcasts 8K Video Over the Air
Japan’s NHK broadcasting organization claims to have successfully transmitted 8k “Super Hi-Vision” television signals via a single standard UHF terrestrial broadcast channel over a distance of 27 km
