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1 week ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
LAS VEGAS — While most broadcasters have taken a cautious approach to investing in IP routing technology based on the SMPTE 2110 standard, infrastructure vendors at the 2025 NAB Show showed a broad variety of new 2110-compliant products and reported strong growth in the adjacent corporate, stadium and Pro AV markets.
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1 week ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
LAS VEGAS — While local broadcasters enjoyed a strong 2024 driven by record political advertising, the call-letter station market continues to be challenged by increased competition from streaming players for viewers and advertising dollars, as well as by rising reverse-compensation payments to networks. However, a growth opportunity has emerged in the form of major league sports rights returning to local stations.
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2 weeks ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
LAS VEGAS — Several new cameras and production switchers were introduced by major vendors at NAB. But the bigger focus was on improving efficiency in existing systems and supporting better interoperability between different vendors’ products.
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3 weeks ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
Five years ago, the rollout of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast standard, or NextGenTV, began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadcasters have been working steadily since to launch new 3.0 stations, with the biggest task being clearing the necessary spectrum in major markets to support 3.0 broadcasts while still maintaining existing ATSC 1.0 services.
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1 month ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Glen Dickson
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2025 10:50 am Tech leaders from Fox, Hearst and ABC shared the different approaches their groups are taking to a SMPTE 2110 migration — and the dynamics underwriting those diverging paths — in a TVNewsCheck webinar last week. IP routing technology based on the SMPTE 2110 standard has matured significantly in the last few years, with a wider range of available networking equipment and better interoperability between different vendors’ products. Major networks and...
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1 month ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
IP routing technology based on the SMPTE 2110 standard has matured significantly in the last few years, say technology vendors. A wider range of IP switches are now available at different price points, with better interoperability between different broadcast vendors’ 2110 products. The NMOS (Advanced Media Workflow Association—Networked Media Open Specifications) protocol now works across a variety of devices, making initial setup of 2110 systems easier.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
While AI certainly has captured the most buzz over the past year, the ongoing shift to public cloud technology as a replacement for legacy, on-premise hardware is probably still the most important technology trend in the broadcast TV business. After successful implementations of the cloud in master control, ingest and archive workflows at several station groups, the cloud is now making solid progress in news production as well.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
Broadcast stations have always represented supply chains — prerecorded shows and spots and live feeds come in, preparation and packaging of that content is performed at the station and a finished product is then pumped out to consumers.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
Since the ATSC 3.0 standard was approved by the FCC in 2017, broadcasters have touted its tremendous capabilities and potential to create new revenue streams through datacasting, targeted advertising and other new, IP-based applications. A December 2021 forecast from research firm BIA Advisory Services even projected 3.0 datacasting revenues of $3 to $7 billion by 2027, rising to a range of perhaps $6 to $15 billion by 2030.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
After a strong rebound in attendance for IBC 2023 following a two-year disruption from COVID-19 and a cautious return to a four-day show in 2022, IBC organizers and technology vendors are expecting more modest growth for this year’s edition, which runs Sept. 13-16 in Amsterdam. IBC 2023 had 43,065 attendees from 170 countries, a 16% jump from 2022, and some 1,250 exhibitors compared to just over 1,000 in 2022.
