RF Shorts - Feb. 11, 2010

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Other items of interest this week:

  • • An article on CNET by Marguerite Reardon, Could cable lose its grip on TV business? notes that Comcast has lost about 199,000 basic cable subscribers and Time Warner has lost 105,000 video customers. Subscriber growth in Verizon FiOS TV service has slowed. Reardon focuses on viewers getting video via the Web, and doesn't mention off-air TV.
  • • According to an article in the Yeshiva World News, 1 World Trade Center hits 20th Floor, the skyscraper is scheduled to be completed in 2013 and will measure 1,776 feet from street level to the top of the tower's antenna.
  • • MacRumours.com reports on a blog post from Phil Bellaria, a director in the FCC National Broadband Task Force in the article FCC Pointing to iPad as Harbinger of Increased Wireless Spectrum Needs. Author Eric Slivka notes, "Despite the fact that the iPad has yet to begin shipping, Bellaria uses the concerns as fuel for his task force's push to free up additional spectrum for such important and fast-growing uses as wireless broadband."
Doug Lung
Doug Lung
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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.