AT&T and Verizon Communications said late Monday (Jan. 3) that the companies will delay their planned Jan. 5 rollout of 5G wireless service in the C-band, at least briefly, at the request of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (above). The secretary had asked for a two-week delay to try and resolve issues of possible interference with radio altimeters that use the adjacent ban.
CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for live event and broadcast productions, has appointed Karl Prentiss as director of production for Red House Streaming, effective immediately. Reporting to Vice President of Red House […]
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with technology consultant Shelly Palmer about this week’s Omicron-battered CES, the salvageable elements of the in-person show and his dim view of NextGen TV’s hope for momentum there, plus the implications for future large trade shows.
CES 2022 just became one day shorter. The Consumer Technology Association announced Friday that CES will now close on Jan. 7 as a safety measure amid concerns about spiking COVID-19 infection rates. While the CTA is touting that 2,200 exhibitors are still confirmed to attend in person, major exhibitors like Microsoft, Google, AMD and Intel have either canceled or modified their in-person CES plans.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a decision handed down Dec. 28), said that the FCC conclusion on the risk of harmful interference was just the sort of technical call that the court owes “significant deference.”
In response to the FCC mandate that the lower six C-band transponders can no longer be used to land traffic in the U.S., PSSI Global Services is installing filters on […]
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Lynx Technik, provider of modular signal processing interfaces, announces its new Yellobrik module designed to convert 12G SDI video signals to HDMI signals. The company says it’s “the ideal tool […]
Procter & Gamble on Tuesday became the latest Fortune 500 company to cancel live appearances at the CES tech show next year in Las Vegas amid concerns about the coronavirus’ omicron variant. Instead of a physical presence at the highly anticipated annual electronics events, the Cincinnati-based consumer goods giant now plans to host a virtual event at its pglifelab.com website.
A Nordic Capital investment vehicle is exiting its investment in Vizrt Group to a new Nordic Capital-led consortium, comprising a secondary acquisition vehicle and other Nordic Capital investment vehicles. This […]
CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for live event productions, says it successfully provided live coverage — featuring direct feeds of the professional athlete races — at the 50th […]
TVU Networks, a provider of live broadcast innovation and technology, announced its key insights from 2021. Based on an analysis of key measures and product usage from thousands of customers […]
Evoca TV, which is using the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard to broadcast its all-IP OTT pay TV service in smaller markets using low-power TV’s, is looking to power up through the FCC’s upcoming auction of new TV station construction permits.
“After careful consideration we have decided to withhold from having a presence on the show floor of CES 2022,” a company spokesperson said at the end of last week.
Microsoft became the latest company Friday to drop out of physically participating in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) amid a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.
Two LPTV stations in the Idaho DMA (189) are poised to launch ATSC 3.0 and make Twin Falls the fourth market to bring Evoca TV, the NextGen TV-based OTA-OTT hybrid pay television service, to viewers. All that’s needed is for the stations, Ventura Broadcasting-owned KVUI and KPIF, to receive final approval from the FCC for their conversion to 3.0. Once the switch is flipped, Twin Falls will become the smallest market on-air with NextGen TV.
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With the Omicron variant of COVID continuing to spread, brands and media outlets are cancelling or pulling back on plans for in-person attendance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, including General Motors. General Motors CEO Mary Barra (above) was originally scheduled to deliver an in-person keynote address. The automaker now plans to debut the all-electric Chevrolet Silverado EV via livestream.
Cobalt Digital has announced plans to fill the IBC void with live-streamed demos of solutions that were to be highlighted at IBC before the in-person show was canceled. The designer […]
Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) says its AI/ML-powered native media recognition engine CLEAR Vision Cloud has been engaged by ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom […]
Ikegami will promote the latest additions to its range of broadcast production camera systems and monitors at Hamburg Open 2022. The show is scheduled to take place from Wednesday Jan. 19 (10:00 […]
The AWARN Alliance has elected the chair and vice chair of its AWARN Steering Committee for 2022. John Taylor, senior vice president of LG Electronics North America, will serve another […]
Avid and the customer-led Avid Community Association (ACA) debuted the Avid Learning Collective program to gift professional media creation technologies, training and certification to not-for-profit educational organizations that have proven to […]
T-Mobile is dropping out of CES 2022 because of COVID-19 concerns, the company said Tuesday, with CEO Mike Sievert no longer scheduled to deliver a keynote presentation either in person or virtually. Meta and Twitter came to the same decision, it was announced Tuesday. CES is set to take place during the first week of January, in Las Vegas.
NewsTECHForum: Complete Stories And Videos
TVNewsCheck’s annual conference’s return to in-person in December charted the forward trajectory news technology and storytelling will take in 2022. See all the stories and video here.
After putting 25 stations on the air with the new transmission technology this year, it says it plans to convert another 20 markets in 2022, bringing its coverage of U.S. TV households with ATSC 3.0 to 50%.
Synamedia Teams With The Howard NextGen TV Broadcast Collaborative To Deliver ATSC 3.0 To Washington
Synamedia, a global video software provider, today announced its participation in the Howard NextGen TV Broadcast Collaborative bringing ATSC 3.0 to Washington, D.C. (DMA 9)The Collaborative was established by Pearl […]
Broadcasters Eye Cloud As Disaster-Recovery Solution
Executives from Fox Corp., Tegna, Sinclair and Bitcentral at least week’s NewsTECHForum said the cloud has become an increasingly important tool for business recovery, even with the caveat that the public cloud can be subject to its own outages.
KOLR, KSPR, KRBK and KOZL are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.
