EAS Community Buzzing Over False National Alert

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 10.28.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit." On this Day: In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law. EAS Community Buzzing Over False National Alert The broadcast technical community is chattering about Friday's incident in which a nationally syndicated radio show inadvertently transmitted audio tones and triggered an Emergency Alert Notification message that was shared with radio and television audiences across parts of the United States. The Challenge of Wireless Mic Coordination Advances in audio quality and the desire to eliminate cables where-ever possible have led to an explosion in wireless microphone usage. It's also forced broadcasters to take steps to ensure that frequency collisions are avoided. Networks that televise major sporting events—and the crews that service them—are among the most severely taxed. A/V Fingerprinting—Transporting, Binding and Applications The algorithms for generating fingerprints have been developed as part of a proposed SMPTE standard from the SMPTE Drafting Group (24TB-01 DG Lip-sync). Other parts of the proposed standard deal with the container for the A/V fingerprint data, which packetizes the data, as well as how to transport and bind it to various digital formats. News & Technology OJBECT AUDIO: Dolby Atmos Surpasses 200th Title Milestone 4KTV: Sky Sports Uses Vizrt Graphics for Successful 4K Ryder Cup Trial INT'L: Alarab TV Selects Elemental for Live News Channel OTT: Yangaroo Expands in L.A. With 360 Media eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup FEC Deadlock Keeps Internet Free From Broadcast Campaign Ad Regulations (Washington Times) Deconstruction Begins at KWTV's Historic Broadcast Tower (News9 in OKC) U.S. TV Households Watch 17 Hours of VoD a Week (Advanced Television) Kagan: Retrans Fees Rising to $9.3 Billion by 2020 (Multichannel News) FCC Taps Former Station Exec to Help With Ownership Issues (B&C) TV Technology White Papers "Playout in the Cloud," from Imagine Communications highlights "an entirely new range of opportunities for media companies to evolve their operations, transform and transport content free of geographic or other historical channel boundaries, extend and expand their brands." "Gaining Competitive Advantage from Switching and Extension," from ThinkLogical addresses changes in the post-production ecosphere and outlines best practices for the design of a future-proof, fiber-optic KVM signal management infrastructure. "The Move to IP-Based Broadcast Infrastructure and the Impact of Object-Based Audio," from Linear Acoustic addresses how to select and deploy equipment that interoperates with multiple manufacturers as well as being sufficiently reliable to meet multiple requirements. "Analyzing 4K Video Quality," from Video Clarity, examines how, as new 4K systems and products reach the market, the importance of video quality testing and evaluation will grow. "Selecting Next-Generation Video Servers," from Rohde and Schwarz examines the rapid pace of technology development and the incorporation of information technology into broadcast and the broadcast operating environment.   ©2014 NewBay Media, LLC

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