Quote of the Day: "No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him." ~ W.A. Nance
On this Day: Actually, on this day in 1981, IBM introduced the System/23 Datamaster, its first desktop computer.
New EAS Event Codes Proposed The National Weather Service asked the FCC to add codes for extreme wind and storm surges, plus a revision on the territorial location codes for two offshore marine areas.
FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger The first condition is that AT&T-DirecTV must expand deployment of high-speed, fiber-optic broadband to 12.5 million customer locations.
Transmitter Efficiency: A Q&A With Rich Redmond With the first wave of DTV transmitters reaching the point of increasing maintenance, coupled with possible channel reassignments due to the spectrum re-pack, we wanted to take a harder look at the topic of transmitter efficiency.
All You Engineers! Don't Be Left Out of the Cloud Summit. Register now for the Aug 5-6 Technology Leadership Cloud Summit in Raleigh, N.C., featuring WGBH-TV CTO Stacey Decker and Capitol Broadcasting's Jimmy Goodmon. Meals are free. Lodging is free. The off-site data center tour is free. The networking is free. All you have to do is get there and bring your questions.
"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.