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BEYOND the HEADLINES
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In the November 9, 2009 Issue:

MPAA continues fight to control home recording
Sleeping with the enemy
ATSC unveils standard guidelines for audio loudness
Hearst TV president says some TV dollars 'will never come back'
TrafficLand launches live traffic video in Chicago and Boston
Neyrinck releases new SoundCode for broadcast/Dolby E

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 Top Story
MPAA continues fight to control home recording

The issue at hand is Selectable Output Control, a technology mandate promoted to protect the early distribution of movies over cable television.

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Sleeping with the enemy

Stations are just now beginning to change their decades-old proprietary ways and share resources. This new way of doing business must expand if TV stations expect to survive.

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 News
ATSC unveils standard guidelines for audio loudness

The new Recommended Practice represents a series of uniform operating strategies that will eliminate disruptive changes in sound levels.

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Alaska broadcaster switches from UHF to VHF

The channel relocation process required the station to go off-air for six days.

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Immersive Media provides live 360-degree view on the Web

There’s been a lot of interest from Olympics broadcasters, music concert producers and car racing organizations.

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Apple looks to upset pay television industry

On-demand video streaming is a fast growing method for watching television and movies.

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 FCC & Industry Update
Hearst TV president says some TV dollars 'will never come back'

New competition is having a profound effect on where advertising dollars and television viewers are moving.

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Religious broadcasters call FCC’s spectrum reclamation ‘unholy sacrifice’

The group told the FCC to look at ‘every avenue from which potential spectrum may come.’

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AP and earthTV announce new content-sharing partnership

The AP will distribute three key earthTV products to its broadcast and online clients through Europe and in other selected territories.

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 New Products & Reviews
TrafficLand launches live traffic video in Chicago and Boston

The company is now providing commuters, businesses, government agencies and broadcast partners access to cameras in Chicago and Boston.

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Scripps Stations centralize graphics production with Chyron Axis

Graphics are created at the desktop, then rendered ‘in the cloud’ by Chyron servers and delivered through the Internet.

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Zaxcom’s Zax-Net distributes production audio metadata wirelessly

The network can wirelessly distribute scene and take metadata for automatic display on any compatible digital slate connected to an ERX2 receiver.

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Netherlands’ United Broadcast Facilities powers up with Anton Bauer

The ENG rental and production facility uses HyTRON 140 and Dionic 160 Logic series batteries.

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Public station KSMQ acquires Hitachi HD cameras

The new cameras are equipped with Fujinon Has18x7.6BRD-S48 HD lenses.

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Neyrinck releases new SoundCode for broadcast/Dolby E

The new software version adds Dolby metadata emulation monitoring and MXF OP1a workflow features for broadcast mixing and delivery.

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NBC affiliate WMBF-TV switches live with Kahuna

The Kahuna production switcher provides all the tools the station’s operators require to build dynamic broadcasts with multilayered effects.

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Gefen debuts GefenTV digital audio decoder

The new unit comes equipped with one HDMI input that is output as two identical HDMI signals.

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OConnor supports ‘To the Arctic’ for MacGillivray Freeman Films

The 120EX is the flagship of OConnor’s new Extended Capacity range of fluid heads — the EX range.

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SeaChange automates enterprise-wide management of on-demand assets

AssetFlow eliminates the manually intensive process performed by operators on content ingested into their on-demand systems.

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At the recent SMPTE Annual Tech Conference and Expo, Bitcentral CEO Fred Fourcher presented a paper on what stations must consider if they wish to submit HD news stories from the field via available broadband networks. Click here.
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