Long Live Rock! That’s the message spelled out in enormous block letters outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in the heart of downtown Cleveland. The 55,000 square foot cantilevered structure, designed by I.M. Pei, stands with one foot firmly planted in Lake Erie, part Egyptian pyramid, part grain elevator. Inside the modern-day…
In describing Napa Valley Television—a public, education, and government (PEG) channel serving the Napa Valley, California region—Executive Director James Raymond proudly states, “We’re like YouTube for the community.” What Raymond is passionate about is empowering Napa Valley citizens to exercise their First Amendment Rights. “If you’re in public access, you’re not in it for the…
“If you are not familiar with NDI, you should be. NDI is a protocol that allows for two way communication to a camera. It can send and receive high-quality video with low latency for frame-accurate switching. The NDI HX-PTZ1 also has 3G-SDI and HDMI output, but NDI makes these redundant. There’s no need for communication…
Emily Griffith Technical College is a unique college located in downtown Denver, Colo. that offers an extensive technical curriculum including more than two dozen career-training programs. The Video Production and Editing Certificate program promises to educate, inspire, support, and create the next generation of video production professionals. For the past four years, this popular video…
From the Miss OSU Pageant to groundbreaking veterinary health research to its annual homecoming parade, there’s a lot happening at the Oklahoma State University five-campus system based in Stillwater. To document and share it all with the world online, the University established the OStateTV production team and dedicated video portal, OState.tv, in 2012. With veteran TV…
Just an hour’s drive from Monterrey, a major industrial center in northeastern Mexico, the City of Saltillo is brimming with newsworthy events, enough to fill an entire broadcast day. That’s precisely what a local TV station in Saltillo started doing in December 2016—offering eight hours a day of live news reports—branded as Telediario—tailored to the interests…
Covering an event like the Democratic National Convention is no small feat even for major broadcast news networks, let alone a nonprofit online news network with a small staff and limited budget. But with some advanced planning and thinking on their feet, the staff at The Real News Network (TRNN) were able to provide its…
For dance music aficionados, the Ultra Music Festival and its related events are global hot tickets. Leading dance DJs and artists such as Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Skrillex and Above & Beyond perform to thousands of people at 18 events across the world, from Croatia to Tokyo. However, perhaps the most important Ultra Music…
“3-2-1, Let it rip!” shouts YouTube teen sensation Zankye as he launches Beyblades into battle inside special Beystadiums from a basement room in his parent’s house in Toronto, Canada. You may not know but millions of Beyblade aficionados around the world do. Beyblades—a popular spinning top toy—is the featured attraction of Zankye’s “Beyblade World,” a YouTube Channel…
Geoff Fox is a broadcast pioneer. He’s also a 7-time Emmy Award-winning meteorologist. Among TV meteorologists, Geoff is the first to develop a method of delivering a standard daily TV weather report about anywhere from anywhere, all by himself. Geoff explains how he tackles mission critical, behind-the-scenes tasks while in front of a live TV camera…
