WSET, WDBJ, WWCW, WSLS and WZBJ are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a TV show director for KOMU, owned by the University of Missouri-Columbia, Mo., and for a regional sales manager for a broadcast and AV equipment manufacturer.

MOXFIVE, a specialized technical advisory firm founded to help minimize the business impact of cyber-attacks, will lead an incident response simulation at TVNewsCheck’s fourth annual cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat, to take place Oct. 17-18 at NAB Show NY. Michael Rogers, senior director of technical advisory services at MOXFIVE, will lead the exercise, which is designed to train participants to calmly, efficiently react to a cybersecurity attack at their companies. Register Now for CBR 2022.

On the evening of Sunday, Sept. 23, 1962, millions of American families finished their dinners, turned on their televisions and were introduced to The Jetsons, a cartoon sitcom produced by the legendary team of Hanna-Barbera. Set in 2062, The Jetsons captured the technological optimism of the time and projected it into a space-age, gadget-fueled vision of the future, inviting its viewers to imagine the dazzling possibilities that the current wave of technological achievement could one day realize. As a template for a technology-driven American future, it was no less than iconic. It was also prophetic.

Jamey Tucker says his freelance job as What the Tech? reporter is providing daily news stories covering consumer technology to more than a dozen TV stations. “Tucker does a good job of being a curator of what’s new,” says Estelle Parsley, the VP of news for WRDW, Gray’s NBC affil in Augusta, Ga.

Ontario-based SSIMWAVE enables streaming and broadcast providers to deliver the best possible image on any device for on-demand and live video.

Executives from Sinclair, Cox and Graham Media will explore the unique threats — and defenses — the media and entertainment industries manage around ransomware attacks in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat on Oct. 18. Register here.

The FCC said that over one million subs in the path of Hurricane Fiona — in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — are without cable or wireline phone, TV or internet service. About 7% of cell cites were out of service in the affected areas, but the FCC pointed out that does not necessarily equate to outages since wireless networks are designed often with numerous overlapping sites to help provide continuity of service. Plus, wireless companies often use temporary, including mobile, sites or initiate roaming agreements. By contrast, no TV or radio stations reported being out of service.

Executives from Tegna, Sinclair, CBS Television Stations and Vizrt will look at how cloud workflows are transforming their operations in a panel discussion at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future event at the NAB New York Show on Oct. 19. Register here.

The cable operator says it will grow its network sustainability by cutting electricity per terabyte of data in half by 2030.

Hearst Television’s senior vice president of technology and information services,Alvin R. Lustgarten will retire next summer. Lustgarten has served in his current role since 2020. He’s worked more than three decades with Hearst Television — and more than four decades in various roles within Hearst Corp.

In Amsterdam this week, there was plenty of talk about broadcasters’ ongoing transition to IP and the cloud, along with the supply chain issues and labor shortages hampering it, but most people were too grateful to see old friends, colleagues and clients to complain.