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NPR asks FCC to let more stations boost digital signals
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The network argues that more flexibility in how the FCC grants such requests would “strengthen the existing digital radio ecosystem.”
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The network argues that more flexibility in how the FCC grants such requests would “strengthen the existing digital radio ecosystem.”
The archive’s efforts include working with universities, public media stations and preservation organizations around the country.
With CPB’s backing, a push to transition NPR station sites to a new content management system has expanded to include TV stations and joint licensees.
“We realized that we basically had created arbitrary lines in our apps based upon how NPR was structured,” said NPR’s Kerry Lenahan.
Two teams faced off in a live escape-room challenge hosted by WGBH.
Engineers at public TV stations in the Mountain West are still coping with wintry weather as they try to complete their pieces of the national conversion of translators to new channels.
A former BBC executive hopes to steer public media organizations toward using digital platforms and tools that reinforce their ethics and values.
The new public benefit corporation, an affiliate of the Public Media Ventures Group, promises to operate as a neutral partner in developing local single-frequency network systems with public and commercial broadcasters.
During a Public Media Business Association session, CPB’s VP for digital strategies discussed the potential of the technology.
Station leaders are increasingly saying that the lack of qualified engineers in the system is “keeping them up at night.”
This year’s TechCon presented the first real-world ATSC 3.0 experiences from several early adopters.
Single-frequency networks will be an important part of the company’s work on the transition to the ATSC 3.0 digital TV system.
Funds from the electronics company backed development of apps customized for its Tizen platform.
ATX Networks, a new vendor, will deliver receivers with enhanced internet connectivity and automatic program file retrieval.
The company has not signed on with Remote Audio Data, which can give podcast producers expanded analytics tracking their listeners’ habits.
NPR said the proposal by the C-Band Alliance “offers a workable, if yet unproven option” for resolving the matter.
NPR has urged the FCC to protect public broadcasters using the spectrum to distribute programming.
The Public Radio Tech Survey also found strong growth in public radio listening among millennials.
Thirty-seven percent of respondents who had listened to news in the week before taking the survey said they had listened to at least two hours of news.
Reporters now have a slew of free online tools to help separate factual from fake videos, just in time for campaign ad season.