PILOT Launches Pitch Prize Competition
Last week PILOT launched the PILOT Pitch Prize 2018 to foster innovation in the broadcast and media industry. Seed level startups focusing on broadcast and media will submit their applications to enter the competition, and five finalists will be chosen to compete in the pitch competition that will be held at NAB Show NY. Each of [...]
The Winter Olympics Come to Next Gen TV Broadcasting
Tablets displaying ATSC 3.0 transmissons via USB dongle receivers from ETRI About a year ago, as we were deep in the weeds of the development of the Next Gen TV standard, ATSC 3.0, we identified the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang as an ideal event to showcase the capabilities of what the standard could [...]
Virtual Reality Project Shows What’s Possible
Charlotte Norsworthy PILOT sponsored the Grady College of Journalism's Mobile News Lab, and provided them with Virtual Reality equipment to experiment with new ways to tell stories. In this guest blog post, Mobile News Lab student Charlotte Norsworthy details her team's VR project on the Tallulah Gorge State Park's hydroelectric [...]
CES 2018: What to See and What to Do
With the winter holiday season passed, it means that the annual Consumer Electronics Show is now upon us. CES is a great place to explore the range of the possible in new consumer electronics devices and services. While not all of the exciting new technology will find its way to the marketplace, exploring this event [...]
Stations, Markets and Standards — what a month for Next Gen TV!
November has been an exciting time in ATSC 3.0 World. A confluence of important public announcements and major industry milestones echoed the growing momentum of broadcasters looking toward the next generation television platform as the next logical step in the evolution of broadcast media. Below is a top-level survey of recent activity in progress toward [...]
NRSC Activates PI Codes for FM Translators Web Resource
The National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) has unveiled a new resource for broadcasters that utilize FM translators, providing a unique Radio Data System (RDS) Program Identification (PI) code for every FM translator in the U.S. FM translators have been a source of growth for the radio broadcast industry in recent years. Regulatory efforts such as [...]