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Broadcast Positioning System Q3 Progress Report: How We Spent Our Summer

By |September 20, 2024|Blog|

In our last update on the Broadcast Positioning System, we detailed the progress we made in the spring, installing and testing BPS at WHUT in Washington, D.C. Frome June through August, a season known for taking time off, the BPS team had their own twist on summer vacation.

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Call for Technical Papers and Panels Now Open for the 2025 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference at NAB Show

By |September 19, 2024|Blog|

Committee Chaired by Sun Sachs, SVP, Product, Design and Engineering, Townsquare Media Special Call for Student Paper Submissions: Best Student Paper Author Awarded Travel and Recognition at NAB Show Washington, D.C. — Proposals for technical [...]

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Learning from NIST at the Time and Frequency Seminar

By |August 20, 2024|Blog|

Sam Matheny had the great opportunity to attend the NIST Time and Frequency Seminar in Boulder, Colo. in August.  This was a tremendous gathering of subject matter experts, and Sam considered it a “mini master's degree" in the basics of time delivery and synchronization techniques.

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Experiencing the Olympics in 8K in NAB’s Lab

By |August 12, 2024|Blog|

NAB collaborated with Intel to bring a demonstration of glass-to-glass 8K content originating from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris to the PILOT Innovation Lab at NAB’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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HDR Accentuates the Highs and Lows of the Olympics

By |August 8, 2024|Blog|

NBC is offering advanced audio and video formats, including HDR, in select markets.  In Washington, D.C., HDR (in the form of Dolby Vision) and advanced immersive audio (in the form of Dolby Atmos) were added to the NBC O&O station WRC on the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse hosted by WHUT just days before the Olympics Opening Ceremonies.

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Brazil and ATSC 3.0: Goooooooaaaalll!

By |July 29, 2024|Blog|

In the Broadcast Olympics, Brazil takes the Gold Medal with ATSC 3.0’s Physical Layer The “About” section of the ATSC home page describes ATSC as “an international (emphasis added), non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for [...]

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BPS Testing is Underway – A Progress Report Q2 2024

By |June 13, 2024|Blog|

As previously covered, the Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) uses ATSC 3.0 to deliver a complementary position, navigation and timing (PNT) solution to augment GPS. Following lab testing in 2023, BPS was deployed on a live broadcast station in the Washington, D.C., market. Having BPS on the air allows for comprehensive validation and testing, and the NAB Technology team is proud to report on some of the initial test results.

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BPS: Solar Storms Offer Timely Reminder of the Need

By |May 14, 2024|Blog|

While many people are focused on man-made threats to GPS such as acute spoofers and jammers, or even Russian space nukes, the sun can be a formidable adversary to reliable timing too.  And U.S. critical infrastructure such as the power grid, cellular telecommunications, and financial data centers all rely on GPS for their timing and reliable operations.

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The 2024 NAB Technology Innovation Award Winner is Ahead of the Game

By |April 16, 2024|Blog|

Xperi Inc. won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2024 NAB Show for their demonstration of “in-vehicle gaming features for DTS AutoStageTM” being exhibited at the Xperi booth (W3532) in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The award was presented at the NAB PILOT Futures Park press conference on Monday April 15.

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NAB Best Paper Award Winner Represents a Crowning Achievement

By |April 13, 2024|Blog|

The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show was presented to a collection of 15 authors from Strathclyde University, Neutral Wireless Ltd, and several divisions of the BBC for their paper “Using a Private 5G Network to Support the International Broadcast of the Coronation of HM King Charles III.”

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