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Comcast makes an encryption deal with Internet-TV developer
Comcast and Boxee, the Internet television developer, reached an agreement that will allow users of Boxee set-top boxes to access encrypted cable programming from Comcast. The relationship was revealed...
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Technicolor broadcast services now a wholly owned business unit of Ericsson
Ericsson has completed its acquisition of the Broadcast Services Division of Technicolor, headquartered in France. The initial acquisition announcement was made on March 13, 2012 for a reported...
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Unique soundproofing challenge met despite nearby airport
System integrators and architectural designers often have to deal with challenges of one type of another-a brick wall here, a misplaced AC duct there-in completing their broadcast and production...
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KWCH-TV hoping to “spark some interest” in mobile DTV in Kansas
Full-power CBS affiliate KWCH-TV has become the first station in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas market to broadcast an ATSC Mobile handheld (MH) signal, but the prognosis for success is clearly to be...
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ABC enhances licensing of online archives
ABC News has enhanced its VideoSource website to allow news producers and other TV show creators to screen content and create clips from the ABC News archives dating back to 1896. The improvements are...
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Newspapers outsource local journalism to the Philippines; Is TV next?
Several major American news organizations are outsourcing local journalism to the Philippines—paying reporters as little as 35-cents per news story, a weekly radio program on Chicago’s WBEZ has...
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Major storm knocks out power to Amazon web services, throwing cloud safety...
For more than a year broadcasters have heard the hype promoting the benefits of remotely based cloud computing: Redundant backup to the hilt with almost no chance of failure. Low costs and the ability...
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Making CDN Deployment Affordable Through Shared Capacity
The emergence of cloud- or remotely based storage and signal processing services has allowed a wide variety of companies to become instant bandwidth providers that enable end-users like Apple, Netflix,...
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Facebook Makes Social Media Deals with NBC and CNN
Signaling its intention to use its considerable clout to support traditional TV, Facebook, the fast growing social media giant, has made cross-promotional deals with NBC for the Summer Olympics and CNN...
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Audience confidence in TV news fading
Gone are the days when viewers believe everything they see and hear on TV. A recent survey by the Gallup organization finds that audience confidence in television news has hit an all-time low this...
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Broadcasters “unlikely to succeed” in stopping Aereo
While the dust has not entirely settled yet, it’s looking less and lees likely that broadcasters will win their court fight to shut down Aereo’s nascent Internet service as a federal judge last week...
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New spray-on battery technology offers unique applications for power source
Researchers at Rice University in Houston have made a breakthrough in the production of batteries, creating a new power source that can be sprayed on surfaces like paint. Although still in prototype...
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Comcast builds out Chattanooga VOD service in the cloud
As multichannel systems operators (MSOs) continue their inevitable migration to a unicast distribution network—in order to support “TV Everywhere” business models that accommodate multiple portable...
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DVB approves 3DTV broadcast spec
The Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium has announced that Phase 2a of its DVB-3DTV specification has been approved. The specification, which describes different ways to distribute 3-D signals...
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Online video popular with Internet-connected TV viewers
New market research forecasts nearly one-half of HDTVs shipped in 2012 will be Internet-connectable, and 75 percent of the owners of these sets watch online movies at least once a month on the...
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