Archive for the ‘Newsrooms’ Category
by Michael Grotticelli May 14th, 2012
KCET-TV, once the powerhouse PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, is now in its second year of independence from PBS with new production studios in Burbank, a new slogan and new promises about the great programming it will produce in the future about Southern California.
 Led by KCET technical staff, the station’s move was “a Herculean undertaking” that spanned more than 12 months. The moves are all part of the station’s attempt to break away from PBS (announced in January 2011) and go it alone as one of the nation’s largest independent public television stations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Burbank, HD production, independent station, Infrastructure, KCET, Orad, PBS, SeaChange International, Studios, Technology, virtual sets, XOR Media
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by Michael Grotticelli May 10th, 2012
NBCUniversal has announced it will make a $190 million investment in its New York City operations, including 30 Rockefeller Plaza and other facilities.
The upgrade includes high-definition technical facilities for many of its most popular news programs ( and flagship O&O WNBC-TV) that will use “best-in-class, state-of-the-art technology,” the network said. New construction includes building a new state-of-the-art studio control room, and updating critical components of the company’s technical infrastructure. That will also include replacing the existing underlying broadcast origination technology,” as well as implementing a new studio and production-related “fiber highway.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 30 Rock, broadcast engineering, HD production, Infrastructure, investment, NBCUniversal, Studios, technical facilities, Technology
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by Michael Grotticelli May 10th, 2012
ABC News has announced that it plans to join forces with Univision News to create a multiplatform news, lifestyle and information programming service aimed at Hispanics in the United States.
Both organizations promised to provide “uncompromising coverage of current events with a unique perspective” with the around-the-clock, English-language television network and digital platform. Both will cater to the country’s more than 50 million Hispanics with programming focused on news, lifestyle and culture.
 Isaac Lee, president of Univision News, called the combined effort “an important moment for journalism in the U.S. and for the U.S. Hispanic community.” The new television network, to be owned 50-50 by the two companies, will be staffed by journalists from ABC News and Univision News. A website, mobile and social media content are expected to debut this summer. The yet-to-be-named television channel is expected to launch in 2013.
No financial details were provided. Editorial coverage will focus on the issues most relevant for Hispanics living in the United States. This includes the economy, jobs, health care, immigration, education, politics, entertainment, health and wellness.
“This exciting joint venture represents the latest example of our long-term strategy to broaden the reach of ABC,” said Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group. “Our powerful premier news brand, combined with the world’s leading Hispanic media company, will create the nation’s first news and lifestyle channel targeted to this quickly expanding and important community.”
ABC News president Ben Sherwood said the mission is the new enterprise is clear: “To offer culturally relevant news, information and lifestyle programming to the large and thriving Latino audience in the United States.”
Isaac Lee, president of Univision News, called the combined effort “an important moment for journalism in the U.S. and for the U.S. Hispanic community” that will “provide all audiences with a multiplatform current events perspective on the issues that matter most to Latinos.”
A management team is expected to be announced this summer. The network will have anchors and correspondents in major cities across the United States. Additionally, ABC News and Univision News will share newsgathering and production resources.
The joint venture reflects the growth of Hispanics in the United States. A recent report by Nielsen projected that the buying power of U.S. Hispanics—estimated at $1 trillion in 2010—will grow to $1.5 trillion in 2015.
Tags: ABC News, Hispanics, News, newsgathering, Platform, reporters, television network, Univision
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by Michael Grotticelli May 9th, 2012
Sprint has become the first cellular carrier to offer professional-grade HD video transmission to its enterprise customers nationwide. This means broadcasters will have access to pre-configured data packages that include LiveU’s LU60 backpack system and LU40i handheld live video transmission solution.
With LiveU technology, Sprint said it would soon offer a mobile video transmission solution that delivers HD video quality and combines multiple 3G and 4G air cards for one resilient uplink. The company has signed an agreement with LiveU to include LiveU’s HD live video transmission solutions as part of Sprint’s Machine to Machine (M2M) services portfolio. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: backpack, bonded cellular, ENG, Gannett, LiveU, Sprint, video transmission, wireless services
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by Michael Grotticelli April 25th, 2012
Internet Broadcasting, a provider of digital publishing technology and services for local TV newsrooms, has introduced ibPublish 2, a digital content management and publishing platform built for the TV broadcast industry.
 ibPublish 2 frees broadcasters to focus on their core competence, developing local-news content. ibPublish 2 is a cloud-based system that enables newsrooms to produce news and information with fast, seamless distribution to mobile and social media channels. The platform is already in production with Internet Broadcasting clients, who are being supported with services including planning, migration, training, best practices and custom development. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Broadcast News, broadcasting, ibPublish 2, Internet, journalism, Mobile Video, publishing, social media, streaming
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by Michael Grotticelli April 25th, 2012
Last week’s NAB show was attended by 91,932 professionals from the worldwide broadcast and professional video production industries, up about 4.5 percent from the 88,044 that gathered in 2011. Dennis Wharton, the NAB’s Executive Vice President of Media Relations, said that an estimated $30 billion in commerce was generated by the show including the business done on the exhibit hall floor by the 1,600 exhibitors occupying 815,000 net square feet of exhibit space. The NAB Show has attracted more than 110,000 people in its heyday in 2007.
“The economy is getting better and the financial outlook for the broadcast industry in general, reflected by this year’s extremely positive show, is improving as well,” Wharton said, alluding to the increase this year in exhibitor participation and an almost 10 percent increase in size (up from 1,550 exhibitors occupying 745,000 net square feet) from 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 4K, attendance, cameras, cellular, convention, exhibitors, lenses, media, NAB, OTT, over-the-top, Production, transmission
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by Michael Grotticelli April 19th, 2012
The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has released a new MXF Commercial Delivery specification, AS-12, a constrained version of MXF that has been developed to enable more efficient handling of commercials through the many transactional and media processing operations from conception to air.
 The new MXF Commercial Delivery specification aims to solve two problems: unique identification and defining a master spot for the creation of long-tail versions. As broadcasters look to serve commercials to long tail delivery platforms as well as their primary channels, controlling costs is important. Many versions may exist of the same commercial, adding confusion to the traffic operations. Versions may be sourced from different distribution routes, arriving with different wrappers and codecs, as well as different aspect ratios. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Advanced Media Workflow Association, AMWA, AS-12, Commercial Delivery specification, engineering, file format, Media eXchange Format, MXF
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by Michael Grotticelli April 19th, 2012
LiveU, an early adopter of portable video-over-cellular solutions for newsgathering, unveiled its new professional-grade LU70 uplink solution with second-generation internal and new external antenna arrays at NAB.
 LiveU’s proprietary RF technology supports the growing range of 3G/4G LTE cellular network bands worldwide. The LU70 includes a one-touch-live mode with automatic adjustment of video resolutions for fast and easy live video transmission at the touch of a button and point to multi-point distribution. A single device can broadcast live to multiple, varied destinations concurrently. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bonded, camcorder, cameras, cellular, LiveU, LU70, networks, transmission, uplink, video-over-cellular
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by Michael Grotticelli April 16th, 2012
Following a rapidly emerging trend among local news stations, LiveU is supplying Gannett Broadcasting’s 23 independent stations with its LU60 wireless backpack technology for the group’s local electronic newsgathering operations. The technology allows news crews to get closer to the action as it happens and saves on transmission costs when sending footage back to the station.
 The LU60 leverages a bonded 3G/4G LTE backpack with proprietary RF technology for sending up to 1080 HD video (with minimal latency). Jeff Johnson, Gannett’s vice president of technology, said that after testing LiveU’s backpack technology over the past few months at select stations, including three of Gannett’s largest markets, and using them for a variety of news and weather events, they’ve received great feedback from news teams on the quality, ease of use and flexibility of the LU60 system. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bonded cellular, broadcast engineering, ENG, Gannett Broadcasting, LiveU, mobile, newsgathering, Technology, wireless transmission
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