Tech
Half of public stations miss DTV sign-on deadline
More than half of the country’s 357 public TV stations missed the May 1 deadline to begin digital broadcasting, according to APTS. As of ...Meeting the HD demand: PBS matching rollout to buyers’ slow uptake
With its pockets emptier than usual and few viewers demanding high-definition pictures, PBS is moving to HD more cautiously than the commercial ...FCC thumbs-up starts radio’s digital age
The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns ...On the road with a circuit-riding Native American radio engineer
Lakota radio engineer Alex Lookingelk rides the highways of Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota, covering as many as 5,000 miles ...Content Depot: Getting audio gets flexible
This summer public radio will get a taste of an impending change in the technological status quo: the Content Depot. This far-reaching set ...While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...How NPR webifies its programming — and you can, too
Nobody in public radio has encoded and streamed as much audio on the Internet — or had to automate the handling of ...LPFM rules still disputed; Congress may act
Applicants for low-power FM (LPFM) stations range from mundane (Sacramento’s Sutter Middle School) to exotic (the Women on Top Awareness Series of ...NPR asks FCC to delay, rethink low-power FM
NPR took a different tack March 16 in the ongoing assault on the FCC’s controversial plan to license low-power FM (LPFM) stations. ...FCC rejects petition to alter DTV modulation standard
The argument over the digital TV standard will continue, though the FCC tried to put it away Feb. 4 [2000], unanimously denying ...Uneasy dilemma for public TV: stick with DTV standard?
Which would be worse? Raising ungrounded fears about DTV technology that spook the public and delay the transition for years? Or ignoring ...Nonprofits courting DBS for set-aside channels
A ground-floor chance to secure channel space on direct broadcast satellites is opening up for noncommercial organizations that have the wherewithal to ...Rural translators threatened with loss of their frequencies
Translators — the lonely relay-runners of broadcasting — are a rural institution under siege. While pubcasters use hundreds of them to reach ...More, deeper, broader: where ‘enhanced’ DTV goes
If you were among a certain handful of people watching the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick bio Frank Lloyd Wright Nov. 10–11, you could get a ...DBS ruling: FCC reserves 4% of channels for education
Direct broadcast satellite companies will have to set aside 4 percent of their video channel capacity for noncommercial educational programming, the FCC ...
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