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Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) said it has begun work on recommendations for a standard way of broadcasting 3-D content over the air to consumersa [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) and Twitter have announced the launch of The Weather Channel Social, integrating timely, local, weather-related Tweets across TWCCas television, web and mobile [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli ESPN is optimistic that the broadcasting of live sports events in 3-D is the future and continues to support its fledgling channel. Representatives for the networkas 3-D [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The number of customers 'cutting the cord' with their pay television companies appears to be accelerating. Comcast reported a loss of 238,000 subscribers, and Dish Network said [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC has announced a five-step plan for sending text messages, photos and videos to emergency 911 services. For the first time, the plan would include smart [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Second screen apps a software applications that run on smartphones or tablets and complement television viewing a have become very popular this year. Watching television used to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Despite concerns from television broadcasters, the FCC has appointed Microsoft to be an administrator of the white spaces database. It joins nine other companies tasked with managing [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) says that mobile DTV is on track to reach two-thirds of U.S. households by early 2012, based on a survey it [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli As more reality TV shows make their way to television, the logistics of producing such content on a tight budget is getting more complicated (and refined) all [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The newly emerging HTML5 program language will be a universal 'game changer,' said new media investor Roger McNamee, a founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The global transcoding business, driven by the success of connected televisions and portable tablets and smart phones, is expected to grow to nearly a half billion dollars [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC announced major spectrum-sharing arrangements with Canada and Mexico this week that will enable wireless broadband service and emergency communications in border regions. The commission also [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli For decades, Mooreas Law has ruled the manufacturing process of electronic devices. Coined by Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel Corp., the 'law' stated that the number [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli When Congress reached a compromise on the budget bill earlier this week, broadcasters breathed a brief sigh of relief. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reidas plan to include [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli TechAmerica Foundation, a non-profit lobbying group representing the U.S. technology industry, has put together a commission of company executives and other industry representatives to make recommendations to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Three former employees of Echolab, a video switcher company that shut down operations last year and its assets sold, are now working for Ross Video as part [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Advanced Digital Services has announced it can convert 2D content to 3-D through a service it claims is 90-percent cheaper than previous conversion technology. ADS said itas [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has just published the 802.22 standard, a new network implementation of broadcast 'white spaces' designed to provide broadband access [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized a proposal by Sen. Harry Reid to sell off broadcaster spectrum as 'full of smoke and mirrors' and a cop-out [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has expanded its recommended television loudness management techniques to cover alternative audio systems as specified in the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The NAB is on the warpath, calling on its broadcaster members to warn that the federal government is trying to take television stations off the air. The [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Amidst all the madness on Capitol Hill about the future of the federal budget, a package of legislation being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allows [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Netflix, a growing but still supplemental source of pay television in the United States and Canada, is now on the verge of becoming the primary programming source [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Haivision Network Video, a provider of video networking, digital signage and IP video distribution solutions, continues to reshape the company for the new rapidly changing media delivery [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Broadcasters are always looking for more efficient and cost-effective ways to transport live HD content. Conventional satellite services are expensive and limited; satellite uplink/downlink delays can cause [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released draft legislation that denies public-safety officials a block of spectrum for the creation of a national broadband [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Shortly after producing the Masters Golf tournament and Final Four college basketball tournament in stereoscopic video this year, CBS publicly stated that it would not produce any [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Panasonic AG-3DA1 3-D handheld camcorder is now orbiting the Earth onboard the International Space Station on the final mission of Americaas NASA Space Shuttle. In addition [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli After years of trying to reach an accord, motion picture and music content owners have finally come to terms with Internet service providers (ISPs) in an effort [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli More than 25 percent of all television sets sold today have Internet connectivity, but that total will increase to 138 million TV sets worldwide a 47 percent [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A U.S. appellate court in Philadelphia has restored a ban that prevents media companies from owning both a newspaper and television station in the same market. The [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Over the years the once close relationship between broadcast networks and their local market affiliates has continued to strain, due to a number of issues like ad [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In the Internet age, broadcastersa mandated community service responsibilities have taken on new meaning. Los Angeles station KABC is providing viewers with a dedicated traffic alert app [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A company called MediaMall Technologies has introduced free beta software for its PlayLater service, a new DVR recording technology for video content delivered over the Internet. The [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli LightSquared, a proposed national wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network that has raised billions of investment dollars, has filed an alternative plan with the FCC after [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In comments for the FCC retransmission consent proceeding, the National Football League has asked the commission not to tamper with sports blackout rules. Those provisions block pay-television [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The consumption of video online by consumers is exploding and shows no signs of letting up. Digital analytics firm comScore has released data showing that 176 million [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Opposition to a proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T and T-Mobile is getting red hot. As critics called on the FCC to hold public field hearings to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The slowly recovering economy and current limited spending on live productions (including 3-D projects) have proved to be a recipe for success for Nic Dugger and his [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A team from Microsoft has visited the FCC to push for quicker adoption of rules governing the use of white spaces for wireless Internet connections. The first [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli If there is any doubt about the interest among local stations to deploy some type of mobile DTV service, is sure wasnat evident at Broadcast Engineeringas recent [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) has released a new set of tools designed to help Mobile DTV consumer electronics product manufacturers enhance reception by reducing the [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could decide whether the FCCas rules banning expletives and nudity on broadcast television is a violation [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli More than 28 percent of the U.S. rural population does not have access to midrange 3Mb/s broadband service, according to a new report from the FCC and [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Recognizing that tape-based archiving continues to be a critical component of many broadcastersa facilities, technology companies involved with the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program a such as HP, [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The PCI SIG a a special interest group of engineers and vendors focused on advancing PCI Express file transfer protocol a plans to develop a PCI Express-based [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Cloaked in July 4 patriotism, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), launched a campaign last week with an end result that would [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A survey of 2,00 adult broadband users in the United States has found that people who use Netflix to stream Internet video to their TV are twice [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Putting himself in the middle of a raging debate on the auction of broadcast spectrum, Rep. John Dingell, D-MI, a senior Democrat congressman and member of the [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In a new extension combining home communications and social media, Comcast and Skype have announced that some Comcast cable subscribers will soon be able to make HD [...]