By Kelly T. Williams|June 11, 2019|Blog|
On June 3, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a public notice announcing that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the FCC, will conduct the next nationwide test of the Emergency Alert [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|March 13, 2019|Blog|
On February 19-21, 2019 PILOT conducted an ATSC 3.0 interoperability test (interop), which focused on implementation of the most recent version of the ATSC 3.0 Interactive Content standard (ATSC A/344:2017). The interop was hosted by [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|March 13, 2017|Blog, Cybersecurity, Proceedings, Radio, Television|
We've been looking at some of the best papers from the Proceedings of the upcoming 2017 Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEITC). In this post, Kelly Williams looks at Denis Onuoha's paper: Cybersecurity: What Can We [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|November 28, 2016|Blog, Television|
On November 16, the FCC granted an 18-month extension of the waiver of its rule requiring television broadcasters to provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information (such as radar maps or other graphics) [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|July 11, 2016|Blog, Radio, Television|
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the FCC will hold a Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test (EAS) on the afternoon of September 28, 2016 (primary date, the FCC and FEMA have reserved October 5, [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|June 14, 2016|Blog|
On June 8 NAB filed comments on an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in PS Docket No. 15-94 regarding proposals to modify the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The 75 page NPRM sought comment [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|December 7, 2015|Blog, Cybersecurity, Radio, Television|
On-Air Operations and Cyber Security – Part 2 You may have already been breached! The first installment of this series discussed generally why it’s important for radio and TV broadcast stations to implement [...]
By Kelly T. Williams|October 5, 2015|Blog, Cybersecurity, Radio, Television|
On-Air Operations and Cyber Security As most everyone is aware, there have been a number of instances of cyber breaches (or hacks) in the broadcast Industry. Some well known examples are the French National [...]
