Tag: DTV
In maintaining towers, stations face higher costs, lack of space
If any part of the broadcast plant ever merited the label “necessary evil,” a top nominee would be the tower. Expensive to maintain, ...Blazing her own path as a pubTV broadcast engineer
The first television broadcast in China was transmitted in 1958. The first time that Ling Ling Sun watched a television program was ...USDA grants back equipment upgrades at 10 rural pubTV stations
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $3.2 million in grants to 10 pubTV operators serving rural areas, assisting with equipment upgrades that ...Charting the Digital Broadcasting Future, 1998
Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters Final Report, Dec. 18, 1998 a.k.a. PIAC or the Gore Commission See PDF of full report; sections ...06-09-10
Published online only. Next print edition includes many of these items. Kutzner chairs team to look beyond today’s DTV standard Jim Kutzner, ...How to get the best quality out of the digital television standard
PBS convened and CPB supported the PBS Quality Group’s evangelism for DTV quality in 2010 and 2011. The group, including tech specialists ...Nine pubTV stations plan digicasting to mobile devices by year’s end
Broadcasters, including nine pubTV stations and more than 50 network affiliates, will launch mobile DTV in 22 markets later this year, proponents ...Wave of brief analog shutdowns are clear warnings to over-air viewers
As if they march under the banner, “Leave no grandma behind,” commercial and public stations, city by city, have begun a series ...TV industry mobilizing to reach portable screens
Public broadcasters have devoted millions of dollars and plenty of angst to prepare for digital broadcasts that will put more channels and ...Thumbs up for APTS digital-only strategy
With a show of hands, all but a few public TV station chiefs attending an APTS Capitol Hill Day meeting Feb. 24 ...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 ...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 ...Gore panel endorses adding educational DTV channels
An extra digital TV channel should be reserved in every community for noncommercial educational purposes, the Gore Commission recommended last week in its ...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 ...
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