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Animating the Universe

By |July 5, 2016|Blog, InnoMinute, Television, Videos|

At NAB Show 2016, PILOT spoke with David Ladd, multimedia producer and editor of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Television Department. Ladd and his colleagues at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Television Department create the [...]

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Understanding License Fees

By |June 20, 2016|Blog, Television|

For a content owner, getting paid a license fee used to be a very simple equation of (rate) x (subs).  But with numerous types of rates now, numerous types of subscribers, a fast evolving technology [...]

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Determining Value at UNC’s Media Innovation Workshop

By |June 3, 2016|Blog|

Create teams of four people from different local media companies with varying job responsibilities and ask them to create a new, financially sustainable product in 36 hours and you might be surprised by the results. [...]

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FM Activation in Smartphones: A Three-year Review

By |June 2, 2016|Blog, Radio|

PILOT has been tracking the status of FM radio receiver capabilities in U.S. smartphones since 2013, observing sales and pursuing teardown analysis on the top-selling models (i.e., approximately the top 70% of sales, analyzed each [...]

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TV’s Killer App

By |May 19, 2016|Blog|

On June 1, at 3 p.m. E.D.T, NAB will host a webcast designed to demonstrate the kinds of services and applications that broadcasters can develop using the new ATSC 3.0 standard. In this blog post, [...]

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