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Byline: Michael Grotticelli Ever since video cameras have been used to cover sporting events, there have been problems with wide dynamic range to allow shooters to capture subjects as they [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Michael Copps, the senior Democrat FCC commissioner who has long opposed the increased consolidation of broadcasting ownership, was dead against the Comcast-NBCU deal from the beginning. He [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Looking to gain a strong foothold in solid-state storage technologies, Morgan Hill, CA-based Cache-A, a supplier of network-attached, tape-based archive appliances, has agreed to acquire the intellectual [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Reaction to the Comcast-NBCU deal has been mixed, to say the least. Some groups said the deal would lead to higher media prices for consumers and harm [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The federal government approved the $30 billion joint venture between Comcast and NBC Universal (NBCU) this week, making it the first time a cable company will control [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Now that its acquisition of the Grass Valley Broadcast Business is complete, venture capitalist firm Francisco Partners has installed a new executive team that will be headquartered [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Boston television station WCVBas Sky 5 news helicopter experienced mechanical problems while flying over the city last week and made an emergency landing on a bed of [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli According to several media reports, if the FCC approves the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal (and an official announcement might come soon), it could impose net [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Industry veteran John Godfrey has been named as the new chairman of the board at the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC). Godfrey follows Wayne Luplow, of LG [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli WatchTV, a Portland, OR, company promoting a technology designed to converge broadcasting and broadband, has asked FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to reverse FCC policy regarding the mandated [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli WRAL, Capitol Broadcastingas CBS affiliate serving the Raleigh-Durham (as well as Chapel Hill-Fayetteville), NC, has launched a new partnership with software vendor SeeClickFix and the city of [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Sling Media will soon offer a subscription service, to be available on select 4G smart phones on Verizon Wirelessa 4G LTE broadband network, that will let allow [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In his CES keynote last weekend, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said opening up spectrum now used by broadcasters and allowing 'market forces' to use it for a [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A TV and radio broadcast tower that has stood in the center of urban Honolulu since 1962 will officially be gone within a month, but not for [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Ready or not, the Internet-connected TV set has emerged as the next big thing in consumer electronics after 3-D TVs failed to capture mainstream consumersa attention to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A new Rasmussen poll has found that more than half of Americans still rely on their local television station when they want to know weather information, though [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Looking to support its continued growth, streamline its product manufacturing and increase service training, Neutrik, a provider of professional audio, video, data and industrial connectors, has moved [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Intel went on the defensive at the CES show over its new Sandy Bridge PC chips, which are designed to secure streaming of HD movies from online [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), in an effort to keep pace with other similar mobile DTV proponents like the Mobile Content Venture and Mobile500, announced that [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The pieces to the mobile DTV puzzle continue to be moved into position and carefully fit together in the hopes that television stations in the top 20 [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, took the gloves off last week when referring to television broadcasters in his keynote at the CES [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli After more than a year of hyping its Scarlet as a low-end, ENG-level, hybrid video/still camera, RED has now rechristened the product as the EPIC-S and raised [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Despite what we often hear or read about the encroachments of new media, Americans watched more TV than ever before in 2010, according to Nielsen. Total viewing [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli It's a year later, with a new chance to get it right. That's at least the thinking of consumer electronics manufacturers and programmers at this year's CES [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In its list of promises to the FCC, Comcast has committed to stimulate the growth of nonprofit news organizations if it is allowed to merge with NBC [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Evertz Microsystems, based in Ontario, Canada, continues to move away from single hardware product sales and aggressively build out its product lines, shifting its resources and R&D [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Maybe the fifth time will be the charm. Nevada City, CA-based Grass Valley announced that the transfer of its Broadcast & Professional business from Technicolor to Francisco [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC has officially posted its full net neutrality rules package, which runs 194 pages, online. The document reiterates much of what was discussed at the official [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli DVRs are in nearly 40 percent of homes in the United States now, said the Nielsen Company and have 'quickly progressed from a novelty to an increasingly [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli It didn't take Comcast long to respond to FCC Chairman Genachowski's holiday leak to the press. Within hours, the cable giant said it was 'gratified' that Genachowski's [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Late last week, Sezmi, a low-cost, multichannel service that promised to 'challenge the status quo in home entertainment and bring a new level of innovation to the [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has let it be known that he would support the acquisition of NBCU by Comcast if certain conditions are approved. Several industry reports [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli It's not certain whether the congressional hearings or the lawsuits will come first. But both will surely come before most Americans' Christmas trees are taken down. Reps. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Google TV had planned to use the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas to showcase its new line of television sets that include Web access. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli One of President Obama's key campaign promises in 2008 was establishment of strong net neutrality rules for the Internet. Last week, the president's FCC chairman said he [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Distraught over her financial situation, a woman walked into the lobby of WSOC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Charlotte, NC, during an evening news broadcast last week, pulled [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In what cannot be considered a good omen for broadcasters' nascent mobile television services, AT&T said it will purchase spectrum licenses from Qualcomm FLO TV in the [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Free Press, a strong supporter of net neutrality and the organizer of a campaign that put millions of petition signatures before the FCC, expressed deep disappointment in [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Bexel and its BBSOne 3-D mobile production facility helped broadcast Canada's first 'Hockey Night in Canada' in 3-D for the CBC Dec. 11. Used at the U.S. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Although they are working on a variety of installation projects, the one area where system integrators are seeing the most growth is in sports venues, which are [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC will hear the Tennis Channelas program carriage complaint against Comcast March 29 in light of both parties being unable to resolve their dispute over channel [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli In a series of at-times complex, three-way negotiations over the past few months, the former Princeton Video Images (now known as PVI Virtual Media Services), located in [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli With a new look and content from ESPN in Europe, the MSN Sports website has relaunched in the UK with football, cricket, rugby and Formula One racing [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Americans -- old as well as young -- are now spending as much time using the Internet as they are watching television, says new research from Forrester [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the trade group behind the CES trade show in Las Vegas next month, is pushing for U.S. regulatory and congressional action to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Last week, President Obama signed the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) into law. The measure now empowers the FCC to regulate the volume between programming and [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli With the FCC's net neutrality vote set for Tuesday morning, Rep. Ed Markey, D-MA, joined by other Democratic House members, have provided commissioners with a laundry list [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Time Warner Cable is telling local subscribers it will continue to carry Fox network programs into January and beyond. That's even if its deal with the owner [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC set the date of July 19, 2011, for a second auction of 700MHz frequencies that could help boost broadband access in the United States. The [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli DVS Digital Video Systems, based in Hanover, Germany, has strengthened its strategic partnership with Rohde & Schwarz and will now be marketed worldwide by Rohde & Schwarz, [...]