FCC Proposes Top Station Opening Bids Totaling $39 Billion

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 02.10.15 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day:"Buddhism is quantum physics without the math." ~ Anonymous On this Day: In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov. FCC Proposes Top Station Opening Bids Totaling $39 Billion The FCC is shooting to open the TV spectrum incentive auction with bids for just the top station in each market totaling more than $39 billion. The figure is derived a report by New York-based Greenhill & Co., released by the FCC on Friday designed to motivate broadcaster participation. It came a day after executives from Fox, Tribune and ION met with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to talk about participating in the auction. Displays Get Bigger and Brighter at 2015 CES Of all the consumer electronics gadgets shown at CES every year, televisions have generated the most buzz, and it's been that way for almost two decades. However, given the three-year slump in TV shipments and plummeting prices for ever-larger screen sizes, it was fair game to wonder if this year the TV business had finally lost its mojo, taking second place to products like mobile phones, tablets, fitness monitors, and even major appliances after last year's show. Locating Shows Becomes a Cross-Platform Challenge ~ by Gary Arlen Seek and ye shall find… if you're lucky. TV Technology's 'Guide to Closed Captioning' TV Technology takes a look at several important deadlines as well as new solutions to ensure compliance with FCC rules and enhance closed captioning services. News & Technology SHOOT: Red and Surfer Announce Redirect Surf 2015 PEOPLE: Pasternack Appoints Tim Galla New Product Manager TECH: Blonder Tongue Encoder Approved by Major U.S. Satellite Provider INT'L: Elemental Enables OTT for Television Broadcasts Ltd eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup CEA Salutes Broadcasters Kicking Tires on Auction (B&C) The Quad HexH2O—A Drone That Can Film From the Air and Underwater (News Shooter) HbbTV 2.0 Specs Published (Advanced Television) Mobile Video's Boom Will Impact Broadcasters and Cable (Multichannel News) Why We Don't Have Battery Breakthroughs (MIT's Technology Review) 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. "Delivering Online Video to the Broadcast Quality Generation" from Limelight Networks explores the broadcast-quality generation and how their expectations impact the way you need to deliver video. "Today's Reality for Moving Large Content Files" from Signiant examines the major trends driving the need for large and fast file transfer, ad hoc delivery methods and the benefits of SaaS. "To Simplify Video Delivery, Integrate the Workflow" from Limelight Networks addressed how to instantaneously deliver high-quality video worldwide to every screen. "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. "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.   ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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