Auction-Displaced LPTV Costs Could Reach $1 Billion

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets This Week's Top Stories - 11.21.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves." ~ Robert Anton Wilson On this Day: In 1977, the first flight of the Concorde, from London to New York, took place. Auction-Displaced LPTV Costs Could Reach $1 Billion Moving costs for LPTV and translators displaced by the upcoming Spectrum Incentive Auction could reach from $570 million to as high as $1 billion, says Mike Gravino, the director for the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition and an investor in two LPTV licenses in the Washington, D.C. market. 4K Lens Development Limited by Physics There's no long focal-range, highly telephoto 4K lenses to mate with the Super 35 single-sensor cameras. Feds to Take Auction Pitch on the Road "We'll start in January. We'll have about a dozen town-hall style meetings." Incentive Auction Bidding Rules Comment Cycle Established One suggested modification would allow small entities to lease spectrum back to large carriers rather then develop it. ChyronHego Sells to PE Firm for $120 Million An affiliate of Vector Capital is acquiring outstanding shares of ChyronHego common stock for $2.82 per share. FCC Responds to Sinclair's Challenge of Joint-Retrans Ban "The commission had good reason to believe that joint negotiation by top-four stations was especially harmful. Such stations are typically affiliated with one of the four major broadcast networks. Due to their popularity, these 'network affiliates have bargaining power' when they negotiate retransmission consent. That power is magnified when two or more top-four stations in the same market jointly negotiate carriage." Next|Video Advanced Media Technology Conference Open to All The latest trends, technology and techniques in video media will be the focus of a two-day event. Akamai Reports on 4K Internet Readiness Global 4K readiness is a new metric. SMPTE 2014 Technical Conference Hits Record Attendance SMPTE 2014 attracted approximately 2,000 attendees representing 31 countries. News & Technology POST: Goldcrest Post Buys Pablo Rio and Pablo PA for 4K BUSINESS: Broadcast Industry Group Cites Early Cooperation, Hires Sales Chief PEOPLE: American Society of Cinematographers Names TV Nominees EVENT: Second Annual NYC Television Week Brings Industry Together eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup New App Lets Viewers Clip and Share Broadcast TV (Lost Remote) Experiment in Vienna Shows That Ground-to-Satellite Communication with Twisted Light is Possible (IEEE Spectrum) Price-Matching Scam Had $400 Sony PS4 Selling for $90 at Walmart (Advanced Television) Spectrum of Possibilities (B&C) GatesAir Takes the Long View (Radio World) TV Technology White Papers "The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms. "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. "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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