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May 31
- CUC Broadcast SAS complements EVS slow motion
- Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary set for fall release
- NAB and EchoStar exchange barbs over twin-dishes
- mPhase Announces mPhase TV+ System
- European tax rules threaten TV coverage of Athens Olympics
- Gepco intros ultra-flexible HD video coax
- BroadView and Harris integrate traffic and automation
- CEA boosts info campaign on Cablecard and connectivity
- Comcast extends license for Microsoft TV software
- Hajtek Vision acquires broadband video communication assets from Miranda Media Networks
- Wales first to bat in UK digital TV switchover
- Charter choses nCUBE for VOD markets
- Public safety adds pressure to broadcasters
- Vizrt showcases weather technology in Spain
- Matsushita and Toray to build world’s largest plasma display factory
- Japanese viewers upset over DTV taping restrictions
- Sony touts Cell-based TV; Intros new U.S. models to merge broadcast with Internet
- Brillian debuts 65-inch liquid-crystal-on-silicon HD monitor
- Entravision comments draw fire from network stations
May 28
- NBA fans watch TNT HD coverage of Western Conference Finals with help from HD-copter
- JVC unveils KH-F870U CMOS high-definition POV camera
- International broadcasters turning to Globecast for soccer championships
- Game Creek Video selects Vinten’s Vector 900 heads
- Arrowhead Pond Arena to upgrade control room to HD
- News from around the world of sports television
- NBC names Canon USA exclusive lens provider for Summer Olympics
- FOX College Sports to telecast more than 800 live collegiate sporting events next year
- Suit alleges ESPN/SportsTicker stole and re-sold Minor League Baseball data
- NBC News to test Sony professional optical disc system
- Manfrotto 745B tripod offers support for shooters on the go
- National Mobile Television to rollout first of two new HD trucks in June
May 27
- Cameras for broadcasters
- Routing and control
- Audio compression in 2004
- KLCS shifts to DTV
- BBC Broadcast's Digital Production Village
- BBC News: Rethinking newsroom workflow
- HDTV displays: How good do they need to be?
- Selecting a workflow-oriented server
- Micronas Rolls Out 4G COFDM Chip Following Acquisition of Linx Electronics
- U.K. Culture Secretary Wants Timetable for DTV Switchover
- Firm Discovers Clash Over DTV Tuner Phase-in
- Azcar Wins $6 Million Contract to Design TV System for D.C. Production Facility
- Hajtek To Take Over Miranda 500 Conferencing Systems
- Access Integrated Technologies’ Digital Cinema Satellite Service to Launch June 4
- Four companies interested in launching terrestrial DTV in Malta
- Yankee Group Advises Content Providers to Protect Core Revenue
- DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - May 23, 2004
- NCTA Wages Summertime Battle With Signal Theft
- Agreement Makes MS Software Available to Comcast Customers
- Thomson Grass Valley Wireless Camera System Used for Award Ceremony
- Frequency Coordinator Designated for `04 Political Conventions, STAs Granted for Low-Power Stations
- Navy Looks at Using Multi-function Capability to Clear Antennas from Ships
- Double-Dish Battle Heats Up for the Holiday
- Nextel/NAB/MSTV 2 GHz Relocation Plan in Trouble?
May 26
- The Changing Face Of Engineering?
- RealNetworks Files Format Suit Against MLB Advanced Media
- An Interview With John Scarcella
- Microsoft’s Windows Media 9 May Become Mandatory For HD DVD
- NBA TV’s Great Build-Out
- PCTV: Turning Up The Temperature On Television
- Tech News
- Turner Transforms SD Truck Into All-HD Unit
- People
- When The Envelope Pushes Back
- Delivering On Their Promise
- Zandar unveils Predator HDTV multiviewer
- Specialized Communications releases SignFlash for customized digital signage
- Samsung sets new benchmark for LCD screen size
- Gallery to display large-venue technologies at InfoComm
- Point-and-click enterprise wide digital signage management
- WireSpring unveils new media appliance for kiosks
- Pixel Power unveils Clarity 100 character generator
- CBC/Radio-Canada standardizes on Inscriber’s Inca Studio graphics solution
- IMP unveils Hummingbird LCD monitors for viewing in sunlight
- Hotties And Horndogs
- Stuffing A Five-Pound Bag
May 24
- Disney to expand MovieBeam video service
- ICTV and Grande to deploy HeadendWare
- Business executives criticize the tech industry
- Intel's pushes for “Digital Home”
- FOX selects Quartz MC technology for HD launch
- Sony unveils blue laser disc storage
- DIRECTV expands use of Thomson technologies for local-into-local coverage
- Fast Forward Video offers miniature DVR for covert applications
- Will HDTV anti-piracy plan unplug digital networks?
- Gotuit Media and RSN team for sports on-demand
- Sony plans video version of Vaio pocket device
- Orca and SeaChange team for VOD in cable and telecom
- ICTV and Grande to deploy HeadendWare
- Samsung to deliver TV via satellite to mobile phones
- Recording rights back for round two fight in Congress
- Orca and SeaChange team for VOD in cable and telecom
- Encoda Systems offers integrated workflow solutions
- Charter chooses nCUBE for VOD markets
- DG Systems selects Vela's CineView decoder for new DG Spot Box
- Thales Crystal logo inserter offers cost-effective branding
- Samsung to deliver TV via satellite to mobile phones
- Cisco self-defending network has PR problem
- Lawmakers want FCC to examine cable pricing
- Florical Auto JIP makes join in progress effortless
- Streaming media on the rise
- Good Times Return to Glitter Gulch
- HDV Now Ready to Edit at NAB2004
- DVR's Impact, Formats to Grow
May 23
- BT Broadcast Services provides in-truck video for NASCAR.COM
- HD launch signals end of era in rocket technology for orbiting broadcast satellites
- Satellite convergence: Sirius joins Dish TV network
- HDTV satellite launched from Cape Canaveral
- FCC’S Localism Task Force to hold hearing in South Dakota
- Leitch completes Videotek acquisition
- BT Broadcast Services provides in-truck video for NASCAR.COM
- FCC investigates downside to DTV conversion
- MPEG LA announces final AVC/H.264 license terms
- Whittingham joins Miranda’s board of directors
- Vyyo agrees to acquire Xtend Networks
May 21
- Avid Takes Products on the Road
- DISH Claims Nearly Universal Local into Local
- Avid Signs $6.7M Digital Deal with CBC/Radio-Canada
- Congress Pushes Cable a la carte
- Time Warner Launches TNT HD
- Robovision Taps Ikegami for HD NASCAR
- SES Americom Launches New Satellite to Deliver HD
- Verizon Boosts Telco TV
- DG Systems Spot Box to Feature Vela Decoder
- Study Heralds DVR as 'Breakthrough,' Warns Advertisers
- Chip Combines Digital Video, Radio
- Hey, Regis -- Bleep This!
- CEA Projects 1M Digital Cable Ready DTVs in Homes by Year's End
May 20
- Comcast, Microsoft Announce Licensing Agreement
- Avid Intros New Certified User Program
- Kasenna Acquires ViewNow
- NY1 goes tapeless with Pinnacle and Panasonic
May 19
- Leitch completes acquisition of Videotek
- CFN/CNBC roll out ENG via mobile phone in Italy
- The Systems Group unveils MasterPlan for DTV
- Conference to examine media convergence strategies
- Panasonic introduces compact AJ-SD93 universal SDTV feeder deck
- RTNDA issues recommended guidelines for airing graphic images
- Weather Channel buys seven Ikegami HD cameras for studio use
- Brick House Video’s Neptune dual SDI frame synchronizer makes U.S. debut
- Canadian Broadcasting Corp. selects Avid for major digital newsroom installation
- Spaceway to offer news directors alternative to existing SNG operations
May 18
- Orca Interactive, SeaChange Pen VOD Deal
- FCC Proposes TV Spectrum For Wireless
- Terayon Partners With TANDBERG
- GlobeCast Provides Cable Package To X Channel
- Leitch completes Videotek acquisition
- Leitch completes acquisition of Videotek
- MSTV files proposal with FCC outlining steps for DTV channel election, repackaging
- FireWire Goes Wireless
- MSTV Files Plan For DTV Channel Election and Repacking TV
- Micronas to Acquire Linx Electronics
- Wireless Broadband Forum May 19 at FCC
- FCC Concerned about Wireless Broadband Use of Vacant TV Channels
May 17
- Chyron intros C-Mix HD graphics mixer
- Harris names new broadcast division president
- Satellite, handheld wireless device specifications dominate DVB showing
- Broadcast associations oppose ‘interference temperature’ approach under consideration
- MIRA Mobile TV selects Fujinon for HD production
- Commission to hold next meeting of Localism Task Force
- FOX taps TANDBERG for satellite distribution
- Canada, UK fiber transmission service now available to Vyvx customers
- Sony intros robotic video cameras
- Commission acknowledges importance of maintaining interference-free TV transmission
- Gearhouse Broadcast purchases Leitch products
- Recording rights back for round two in Congress
- Ascent Media to provide FOX with support, maintenance of earth stations
- Path 1 introduces Chameleon vidXwan multi-port, bidirectional IP video router
- Discreet acquires Unreal animation technology
- Louisiana Public TV takes delivery of Axcera Visionary DT transmitter
- Gotuit Media and RSN team for sports on-demand
- Pappas chooses analog, digital water-cooled e2v ESCIOT-powered Ai transmitters
- Commission issues Notice of Proposed Rule Making to allow wireless devices in TV band
- FCC refuses to grant SBE stay of rules governing fixed Aural and TV BAS stations
- Disney to expand MovieBeam video service
- OmniBus supplies content management infrastructure for Dutch broadcaster NOB
- Discovery Communications selects TM Systems for language customization
- NAB president wary of plan to allow unlicensed devices to use vacant TV spectrum
May 14
- FOX Sports video to serve as centerpiece of FOXsports.com, MSN
- MIRA Mobile purchases 11 HD lenses for new teleproduction truck
- Small fire erupts in television press center for Athens Olympics
- DIRECTV launches spot beam satellite; Sells set-top box division to Thomson
- Snell & Wilcox and TransMedia Dynamics deliver MXF-based solution
- It’s now NBC Universal
- Local DTV transition continues
- FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels
- Amateur video dominates global news coverage
- Sony introduces HDW-730S HDCam
- Micronas agrees to acquire LINX Electronics
- New technology promises to streamline sports viewing
- The latest happenings from around the world of sports
- Kasenna Acquires ViewNow
- FCC To Open RF Test Facility
- MIRA Mobile Television Preps for HD with Fujinon Lenses
- Fox Deploys Tandberg HD/SD Distribution Systems
- Thomson Buys DirecTV's Set Top Biz
- Fins to the Left, Fins to the Right...
- Pinnacle Debuts CineWave With Editing, Effects for DVCPRO
- Local DTV Broadcasters Top 1,200
- DTV Sales Soar
- Wensinger Tapped to Lead Harris Broadcast
- Discovery Purchases 54-Channel Omneon Server
May 13
- Integrity, quality, context recipe for success in TV news, says Koppel
- LMDigital introduces HiCAMM integrated router, console system
- Rip-Tie CableCarrier offers easy, convenient method to carry cable
- NEUTRIK releases Speakon combo connector
- NAB Research and Planning Department awards five grants for broadcast research
- Florical Auto JIP makes join in progress effortless
- IMP announces launch of Hummingbird sunlight-viewable LCD monitors
- SNS unveils globalSAN multiplatform iSCSI storage solution
- Pixel Power unveils Clarity 100
- CUC Broadcast SAS complements EVS slow motion
- BCI unveils ScreenLink fiber optic transport product
- DVS unveils Pronto2K multifunctional digital disk recorder
- Fiorina urges broadcasters to use new digital capabilities to uplift character
- Triveni Digital, Terayon deliver all-digital HD distribution system for broadcast networks, affiliates
- Westcott adds video broadcast kit to Scrim Jim line
- Ascent Media to provide FOX with support, maintenance of earth stations
- Harris launches DTV transcoder/mixer with seamless 5.1 surround sound support
- TDK DAT 72 data cartridge: Provides high storage capacity
- Discreet acquires Unreal Pictures, core character studio technology
May 12
- 16x9 Adds HoldIt To Arsenal
- Autotote Taps DNF For Live Racing
- FOX Monitors With TANDBERG
- Discovery Television Center Buys Omneon Server
- Ascent Media Scores Major Contract With FOX
- Fujinon Keeps On Truckin'
- BBC Technology sells Colledia to Wexler Video
- Chyron unleashes new generator
- Axcera delivers DT depressed collector IOT transmitter to Louisiana Public TV
- Snell & Wilcox debut variety of broadcasting conversion tools
- Discovery Communications, TM Systems form strategic alliance
- Harris names new president for Broadcast Communications Division
- Gearhouse Broadcast purchases multi-million dollar Leitch HD/SD solution for UEFA EURO 2004
- Quantel bolsters eQ editing system with HD-RGB handling
- Weather Channel selects Ikegami HD cameras
- WSWS-TV, WMMF-TV turn to e2v ESCIOT-powered Acrodyne transmitters
- CBC/Radio-Canada choose Inscriber as national standard
- Vyvx extends MPEG-2 compressed fiber video service in Canada, U.K.
May 11
- Panasonic adds content delivery and scheduling to its plasma display panels
- Ascent Media upgrades FOX operations
- HB Communications lights up state-of-the-art control rooms for Northeast Utilities
- Inscriber inks Saskatchewan Indian casino deal
- Large Screen Displays unveils self-education toolkit for its Pi Products line
- Daktronics 40-inch LCD now available
- KeyWest releases latest character generator
- Sony expands LUMA monitor series
- Fujitsu-Samsung plasma legal wars heat up
- CNET: "All Americans Will Eventually Have Pay TV"
- FCC to Consider Unlicensed Operation in TV Broadcast Bands
- NAB, MSTV Join Nextel in 2 GHz Relocation Proposal
- National Spectrum Managers Association Meeting Looks at New Technology
- MSTV files Reply Comments in Interference Temperature Proceeding
- MSTV, ARRL Comments Express Concern About BPL Interference
- DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - May 9, 2004
- FCC Denies SBE Application for Review of BAS Coordination Rules
- FCC Issues Third NPRM on New 37/42 GHz Microwave Rules
- Free Radio Berkeley To Offer Workshop On Building Low-Power FM Station
May 10
- Interroute selects Exanet’s digital storage for streaming
- New technology allows instant recording at concerts
- Hollywood's prepares for new assault on campus file swappers
- Internet file sharing/downloads on the rise again
- BBC tests TV distribution over the Internet
- SGT at Broadcast Asia 2004
- BigBand and Pioneer Digital team together for end-to-end switched broadcast system
- DVD recorder sales set to explode
- I.B.M. introduces servers that act like mainframes
- ABC manages content with Isilon IQ
- Microsoft announces new cable TV efforts
- Eyeheight names DDG as American master reseller
- Cox launches VOD services with Concurrent's 4G MediaHawk platform
- DaletPlus Media Library used for distance learning
- Cable operators move to Java services
May 7
- Cable operators move to Java services
- Digigram debuts new generation of PC sound cards
- The Systems Group intros pre-configured DTV master control
- CSTV and Akamai team to create streaming platform for college sports
- BBC tests TV distribution over the Internet
- Pinnacle announces CineWave compatibility with Panasonic’s DVCPRO
- McCain ponders cable à la carte requirement
- CBC/Radio-Canada selects Inscriber Inca Studios
- Nextel proposal, with broadcaster support, hits turbulence at FCC
- DVD recorder sales poised to explode
- FCC is warned about the side effects of indecency policies
- Mobile production companies support FOX Sports HD initiative with Thomson Gear
- Discovery Television Center selects Omneon servers
- Reidel matrix intercom offers fiber-based network backbone
- JVC offers HD MPEG-2 encoder for HD ENG
- Microsoft announces new cable TV initiative
- Gray Television Taps Avid Solutions for News Production
- Thomson's Technicolor Extends HD Dailies Service
- BBC Announces Shortlist of Three Bidders
- NCTA Battles A La Carte During its Really Big Show
- Sennheiser Plant in Ireland Burns
- NAB AIM Award Winners Announced
- Alaska's Stevens in Line to Head Senate Commerce Committee
- Cable Operators, Vendors to Develop Java Standard for Cable Set-Tops
- Scientific-Atlanta Testing Multi-Room DVR Service
- Pace To Feature TV Guide Interactive on HD Set-top
- OpenTV Secures Deals, Launches New Services
- FCC Seeks Comment on Advancing Broadband Deployment, Forms Task Force
- Texas Tech Installs Second Set of Telecast Systems
May 6
- Path 1 introduces Chameleon vidXwan multi-port, bidirectional IP video router
- Thomson debuts HD Super SloMo camera system
- Tennis Channel to use BT Broadcast Service for 2004 season transmission
- JVC unveils KH-F870U CMOS high-definition POV camera
- Satellite, handheld wireless device specifications dominate DVB showing
- Over-the-air multichannel plan promises to upset distribution apple cart
- Panasonic introduces compact AJ-SD93 universal SDTV feeder deck
- Shapiro calls on broadcasters to make quick shift to HDTV
- Rohde & Schwarz, Ai reach agreement on distribution
- E! selects Scientific-Atlanta’s PowerVu content distribution system
- Masstech Group shows complete broadcast workflow solutions
- Brick House Video’s Neptune dual SDI frame synchronizer makes U.S. debut
- PBS selects ILC’s MaxView network control software
- Leitch unveils new Digital Turnaround Processor
- Quattro S offers users small base studio pedestal for multi-camera studio use
- NBC News to test Sony disc optical system prior to Summer Olympics
- Axcera introduces frequency agile DTV translator/booster
- Sony introduces HDW-730S HDCam
- Snell & Wilcox introduces major enhancements to RollCall control, monitoring system
- SGI shows InfiniteStorage for broadcast featuring MXF capabilities
- Genelec rolls out Triple Play stereo monitoring systems
- TANDBERG Television launches MPEG-4 part 10 AVC encoding solution based on ICE platform
- BBC Announces Bidder Shortlist
May 5
- News Copter Crashes In Brooklyn
- OpenTV, QVC To Launch iTV Shopping
- MyDTV Joins Pioneer Compass Program
- Gray TV Purchases Avid iNEWS System
- WTWB Wins S&W "Digital Makeover" Contest
- DISH, Turner Sign Distribution Deal
- Florical introduces MediaTrans PLUS for MPEG-4 video streaming
- WNBC Chopper 4 crashes in Brooklyn, crew survives
- Tour to provide glimpse into world of converged news media
- Tektronix delivers waveform monitor for Avid NLE
- Pathfire announces VNR Master Locator feature for DMG version 3.0
- Canopus unveils EDIUS HD offering real-time mixed HD/SD editing
- Gray Television to equip 13 stations with Avid iNEWS newsroom computer
- MXF freight train leaves station, news production jumping aboard
- Television Engineering rolls out ENG Express newsgathering vehicle
- CE Companies Clash on HD DVD
- What's Up in Asset Management
- Broadcast Lab Wanes
May 4
- Nextel to pay BAS relocation costs under joint NAB, MSTV, company plan
- Alternative plan calls for cable to downconvert at the set-top, not the headend
- Over-the-air multichannel plan promises to upset distribution apple cart
- Satellite Update
- COFDM vs. VSB?
- WRNN Asks for Permission to Shut Down Analog Signal
- BBC Considers HDTV
- Broadcast Station Totals
- FCC Experimental Actions
- NTIA Study Shows BPL Interference Potential
May 3
- Dielectric Communications introduces FLEXLine foam cable
- KTech introduces 36-channel GigE decoder
- WTWB wins $100K in Snell & Wilcox gear in “Digital Makeover” drawing at NAB2004
- ATSC advances Enhanced AC-3 audio specification to candidate standard status
- Telestream announces new partners and products at NAB2004
- Emmis pushes shared DTV spectrum initiative
- SBE files reply comments with FCC on opposition to reconsideration of 2GHz TV BAS plan
- Dolby Digital Plus unveiled at NAB
- Comcast backs away from Disney
- Avatar Environmental to assist FCC in inquiry into migratory bird safety
- Broadcom offers advanced DTV chip set
- Proposed legislation for cable programming choice
- Wexler Video adopts Colledia from BBC Technology
- RealNetworks looses president as losses grow
- Sarnoff introduces real-time PC-based MPEG-2 software encoders
- WTWB-TV wins $100,000 “digital makeover”
- Ikegami brings new switcher and wireless HD to NAB
- The Systems Group and Venue Services join forces
- Record HDTV now without restriction
- ProBel gets Sirius with routers At NAB
- Agriculture Department grants $14 million to public broadcasters for DTV conversion
- LARCAN unveils Eclipse series of solid-state analog TV transmitters
- Television Engineering rolls out ENG Sprinter
- Commission issues notice on 3650- to 3700MHz band use by unlicensed wireless devices
- Hitachi shows multiformat HD support
- Cool shades
- House Panel approves single-dish provision for satellite distribution of broadcasts
- Digital transition coalition forms to push digital TV
- SBE objects to FCC rulemaking allowing unlicensed Part 15 devices to share BAS frequencies
- Ray Dolby inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Pixelmetrix announces 8VSB broadcast monitoring
- Thales introduces analog solid-state common amplification VHF, UHF transmitters
May 1
- Data-backup technology and techniques
- Reader Feedback
- New Products
- New Products
- Autocue's QScript helps CNNI make news
- Playing chicken with your viewers
- Digital video basics
- Solving the animal problem
- What ever happened to free TV?
- The value of a good engineer
- Television measurements