Boston’s WCVB Weathers Record-Setting Winter

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 03.05.15 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." ~ Mahatma Gandhi On this Day: In 1995, Yahoo! officially was launched. Boston's WCVB Weathers Record-Setting Winter When will the snow stop falling? That`s the question that Boston TV broadcasters are asking themselves, as the city continues to dig out from one blizzard after another. The ongoing accumulation of snow has become so severe that it has packed city streets and crippled pubic transit. Blackness: A Three-Tiered Approach ~ by Jay Holben Christopher Probst, now a fantastically successful cinematographer, was one of my roommates and my good friend. He and I dissected Bartley's work on "The X-Files" ad nauseam. We, too, wanted to learn the tricks of the trade to making night look so beautiful, so enticing, so terrifying. Story-Teching at BVE and Beyond With the proliferation of physical pieces of technology on show at BVE then, where do objects come into this storytelling? Price demonstrated the literal value of storytelling by using the example—and telling her audience the story—of a buggy which sold on eBay for over £150,000. NewBay Media's Best of Show Awards Returns for 2015 NAB Show NewBay Media is bringing back the Best of Show Awards for the second consecutive year. The awards will recognize outstanding technologies exhibited at the 2015 NAB Show in April. Winners will be selected by a panel of editors and expert contributors for NewBay Media publications, including TV Technology, Digital Video, Video Edge, Radio, Radio World, ProSound News and Sound & Video Contractor. News & Technology BUSINESS: Bitcentral Acquires Fission Software INT'L: Ross Video Teams With Mediatec Asia Pacific SMPTE: Six Members Earn AMPAS Honors CC: DoCaption, CSI Team Up for Closed Caption Monitoring eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup March Madness is Coming to YouTube With a New NCAA Channel (GigaOm) FAA Grounds FM Spectrum Interest (Radio World) Google Confirms Scaled-Down MVNO Plans (Light Reading) Charter 'Spectrum' Gets Down To Business (Multichannel News) The Emerging Challenge of Augmenting Virtual Worlds With Physical Reality (MIT Technology Review) TV Technology White Papers "High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage. "Using Cloud Playout to Simplify Your Disaster Recovery Plans" from Imagine Communications describes how using its Cloud Disaster Recovery system can provide private or public cloud-based disaster recovery for broadcast and video playout operations. "Controlling and Monitoring Studio Displays" from Orad describes the implementation of the Orad TD Control studio display in The Weather Channel's new Atlanta studio. "The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms. TV Technology's 'Guide to Closed Captioning' takes a look at several important deadlines as well as new solutions to ensure compliance with FCC rules and enhance closed captioning services.   ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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