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In the September 9, 2009 Issue:

Gray Television launches mobile DTV trial in Omaha
JPEG2000 Alliance to launch at IBC2009
News organizations object to Big Ten coverage restrictions
IBC2009 TV news goes tapeless
RF Central to show six-way receiver with HD decoding

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Gray Television launches mobile DTV trial in Omaha

WOWT, the Gray Television-owned NBC affiliate, went live with a mobile DTV trial in Omaha days before the OMVC showcase of the technology in the nation’s capital.

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JPEG2000 Alliance to launch at IBC2009

Among the activities of the JPEG200 Alliance will be educating and creating awareness about the benefits of the wavelet-based compression algorithm.

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Raycom Media, MCG Capital to merge newsrooms of Hawaii stations

The companies have announced a shared services agreement that will consolidate the newsrooms of Raycom’s KHNL/KFVE and MCG Capital’s KGMB.

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News organizations object to Big Ten coverage restrictions

Leaders of six news groups sent a letter to Big Ten Commissioner James Delany last week to protest provisions of this season’s press credentials they say will impede editorial coverage.

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IBC2009 TV news goes tapeless

This week when IBC2009 opens, videographers covering the show for IBC TV News will use two different models of JVC tapeless camcorders to cover the action.

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RF Central to show six-way receiver with HD decoding

The RMR-X6-II family offers the latest in maximum ratio-combining technology.

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Polecam to introduce solid-state HD/SD video recorder at IBC2009

The nanoFlash is designed to be attached to a Polecam rig or mounted directly to a camera.

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Compix to roll out CompixMOS 2.0 at IBC2009

CompixMOS 2.0 allows users to benefit from the functionality of the MOS standard by directly inserting CG events into newsroom scripts.

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Streambox to feature live, IP-based contribution service at IBC2009

Streambox's Live Service enables broadcasters to deploy free encoding software to remote reporters and citizen reporters and pay only for videos that are decoded.

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AJA Video Systems ships Ki Pro

Virtually any video and audio source can be fed into Ki Pro to record 10-bit ProRes 422 media.

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