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As 2022 begins, the Reinventing Local TV News Project at Northeastern University is optimistic about the state of local television news and we’re doubling down on our research findings that revealed a potential pathway for building a bigger audience, both on-air and online. Our not-so-secret formula? Prioritizing animation and enhanced graphics in local TV news storytelling.

Downtime on set is an issue that keeps production engineers awake at night...literally. They’re often stuck in the studio fixing technical issues to get productions back on-air while everyone else stands around or is asleep. There is always a worry that a critical piece of the production workflow will cut out in the middle of a shoot causing the production to come to a halt. Backup systems, redundancy and additional engineers on set are deployed to help reduce downtime, but we all know that every year there will inevitably be a few sleepless nights for engineers.

We wanted to know what technologists in our industry are excited about and expect (or hope) to see in 2022, so we asked the NAB Technology staff and a few other luminaries in the industry if they had anything to share. They did.  This compilation of predictions is our way to wrap up 2021 by looking forward to 2022.

NAB has issued the Call for Presentations for the 2022 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (submissions are due by January 14) at the NAB Show (April 23-27 2022), which will be here before you [...]

Electric vehicles (EVs) are the way of the future but this could spell trouble for AM radio.  More than a few EVs have eliminated the AM radio from the infotainment system citing the increased interference [...]

In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized U.S. television broadcasters to use ATSC 3.0 transmission standard (or Next Generation TV) on a voluntary basis. Today, 43 markets are broadcasting using Next Gen TV and [...]

There is a lot of hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and an equal amount of confusion about what AI can really do. From playing chess to creating deep fakes, many of the examples in the [...]

The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), a trade association dealing with technical, operational and regulatory issues affecting North American broadcasters, recently announced a Recommendation for broadcasters on the use of High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology. [...]

I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive of NAB Show and understanding of the difficult decision we made to cancel it again this year. There was genuine excitement expressed by so many in our community [...]

Benjamin Schwarz is the Ultra HD Forum Communications WG Chair. The Ultra HD Forum is proud to announce the arrival of its latest creation, which still needs a christening. As it’s an irregular newsletter [...]