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1 week ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
While focused on the future, ATSC’s annual “NextGen Broadcast Conference” in Washington, D.C., last week felt a bit like a step back in time.
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1 week ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Glen Dickson
While focused on the future, ATSC’s annual “NextGen Broadcast Conference” in Washington, D.C., last week felt a bit like a step back in time.
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1 week ago | 
click.newscheckmedia.com | Glen Dickson
TOP STORY With U.S. Progress Stalled, ATSC Touts Gains Abroad By Glen Dickson ATSC’s annual conference was marked by a lack of meaningful progress on the domestic front, so it turned to Brazil for inspiration. LATEST NEWS Emergency Alerts Go Out In Spanish And English, But What Happens If You Speak Another Language? NPR, Jun 18, 2025, 7:25 Some Democratic Congress members and nonprofits say since the Trump administration came into office, the FCC has delayed starting a 30-month window for...
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2 months 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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2 months 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 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 19, 2025 | 
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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Feb 27, 2025 | 
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.
