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Issued a Forfeiture Order in the amount of $9,500 to Roseland Broadcasting, Inc. , for violations of Commission rules.

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The FCC has received fresh comments from the aviation industry regarding a proposal from Xperi and NAB that would allow more U.S. FM stations to increase HD Radio digital power levels. 

The aviation industry says it needs further clarifications from the FCC before it can begin collaborative testing with the broadcast industry to identify any possible interference in adjacent aviation radio bands that a power increase might cause.  

Members of the aviation community previously submitted comments in the proceeding raising concerns about the potential for harmful interference to aviation VHF receivers operating in the 108-118 MHz Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service (ARNS) allocation, immediately adjacent to the FM broadcast radio band at 88-108 MHz.

In February, the FCC Media Bureau asked for additional public comment after Xperi and NAB identified an important ambiguity in the commission’s rules regarding HD Radio MP1 service mode. They asked the commission to clarify the maximum digital FM power levels permitted for hybrid and extended hybrid service modes. 

[Related: “NAB, Xperi Raise Concern Over HD Power ‘Ambiguity’“]

The aviation groups, which include the Airline Pilots Association and The Boeing Company, in comments filed this week say they have engaged with the FM broadcaster community (through NAB and Xperi) to establish additional technical and operational details that would serve as the basis for evaluating the potential for interference; and developing the means to protect ARNS operations critical to aviation safety. 

“While the aviation community was initially optimistic that this collaborative work would lead to an expeditious assessment, it quickly became apparent that the preliminary work involved was more complicated,” the aviation groups told the FCC. 

The aviation stakeholders say they have worked closely with NAB and Xperi to obtain accurate models that represent the relevant analog and hybrid analog-digital FM waveforms in order to understand the conformity of FM radio transmitters. The groups say this “preliminary work is mostly, but not yet completely, finished.”

The aviation groups say it is still necessary to clarify the exact waveform of the FM analog and hybrid stations. “At this time, the correspondence of that waveform to applicable commission emission limits remains unclear, and improving the clarity of correspondence forms a key part of the ongoing collaboration with NAB and Xperi,” the aviation groups said in comments.

The aviation parties say they recommend that the commission “fully document in its rules the final agreed emission limits in an accurate spectral mask to avoid future confusion or ambiguity of the sort that has bogged down the collaborative efforts” so far.

The groups go further and in a footnote to say that the commission’s rules also allow significant spurious emissions from analog FM signals well above the ARNS band edge “a matter which the contemplated coexistence testing will also evaluate.”

[Related: “Aviation Concerns Slow Digital Power Boost“]

In their latest comments, the aviation groups say they are reserving comment on the NAB request to limit consideration of potential adjacent bands interference issues to only FM stations operating on the 107.9 MHz channel until the collaborative testing described above is completed.

The groups conclude: “The aviation community looks forward to continued collaboration with NAB and Xperi to finish the preliminary work and complete coexistence testing. Once the results are available, then the aviation community can supplement the record in this proceeding with supporting data on the rule changes being considered in this rulemaking and on specific questions raised …”

Xperi and NAB in their own new comments reiterated the need for the FCC to clarify the maximum allowable operating power of a digital FM signal. They suggest the FCC incorporate reference rules from the NRSC-5 standard to eliminate any ambiguity. Read their entire response and other comments in docket MB 22-405.

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Karl Fontenot (Photo courtesy KRVS)

University of Louisiana at Lafyette-based public radio station KRVS(FM) posted a bittersweet announcement to its website today: “With heavy hearts and bright smiles, KRVS is saying goodbye to our MacGyver.”

Karl Fontenot, after 25 years at the station, is retiring. “Many people have helped this station reach nearly 61 years on air, but KRVS wouldn’t be KRVS without Karl Fontenot,” the station posted.

Fontenot was previously honored by the Louisiana Broadcasters Association as broadcast engineer of the year in 2015.

Among other achievements, Fontenot oversaw the design and construction of the Cypress Lake Studios at UL Lafayette at 2009, which have hosted hundreds of local and national performers for the station’s “Medicine Ball Caravan” and other programs. Fontenot consistently ensured top audio quality for these broadcasts, as well as at live festivals, concerts and political debates, according to the station.

In fact, it was Fontenot who inspired KRVS to make live music performances a regular part of the station’s programming. He was one of the many hosts of the “Dirty Rice” program and he decided to put together a system to broadcast the show live from Lafayette’s historic Grant Street Dancehall. Those early shows inspired then general manger David Spizale to make broadcasting live Acadiana music a standard part of station operations.

Like other long-time chief engineers, Fontenot has a few stories of handling transmitter troubles, including about how he added “snake handler” to his résumé. He shared the story with KRVS’s oral history project in 2023.

“One day the transmitter in Duson goes off the air. A big rat snake had gotten into the transmitter and wrapped itself around a bunch of wiring inside, and it electrocuted itself. And I was trying to pull pieces of the snake to get it out when all of the sudden that snake’s head comes up and starts moving. We just freaked out. The snake was not dead. But yeah, that’s when I could add snake handler to my résumé.”

He’s also contributed a few user reports to Radio World’s Buyer’s Guide section over the years.

In wishing him a good retirement, KRVS describe Fontenot as “a pillar of this station’s success and its own oral storyteller, providing everyone with endless knowledge on all things music, radio, and engineering related.”

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Gray Television has given a multimedia journalist who joined its Washington, D.C., bureau in June 2015 a promotion, naming him Senior National Correspondent for the bureau. However, he’ll be based in New York.

Getting the elevated role is Peter Zampa. He’ll be covering the local impact of national and international stories for Gray affiliates, including Wall Street and the United Nations. He will also provide unique analysis for “Local News Live,” Gray’s streaming network that provides live news coverage on more than 500 Gray station websites, connected TV apps, and mobile apps.

Gray Television Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland commented, “Peter will focus not only on the big stories happening in New York City, but how they affect the communities we serve.”

Lisa Allen, the GM of Gray’s Washington operations, added, “Peter is a relatable storyteller who understands how to connect national headlines with viewers’ concerns in each of our markets. We are excited to expand our coverage to New York City and give our audience a new lens on the news events that impact their daily lives.”

 

The Chief of the FCC’s Media Bureau has affirmed a decision made in late December 2023 by Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman to fine the licensee of a Corpus Christi, Tex., low-power TV station for its assumptions tied to a delayed filing of a license application.

As such, Roseland Broadcasting is on the hook for a $9,500 forfeiture.

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On August 2, 2022, the FCC’s Administrative Law Judge, Jane Hinckley Halprin, terminated a license revocation hearing against the owner of a Class A FM radio station in Somerset County, Pa., who is a convicted felon.

However, Roger Wahl had not yet been ordered to turn in the license of WQZS-FM 93.3 in Meyersdale, Pa., as a local pastor pleaded with the Commission to reconsider stripping Wahl of the station considered by some to be a lone local voice.

Now, the full Commission has spoken. Wahl is hereby ordered to shut down WQZS.

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The NAB is welcoming a new SVP/Deputy General Counsel, an individual who will help develop and advance the association’s policy goals across a broad range of issue that impact broadcast radio and television industry members. In particular, he will lead advocacy on ATSC 3.0 and NEXTGEN TV and address spectrum matters, along with other regulatory issues.

Taking the role under Chief Legal Counsel and EVP/Legal and Regulatory Affairs Rick Kaplan is Nandu Machiraju.

Machiraju served as a partner at top law firm Baker & McKenzie LLP, where he advised clients on antitrust issues and regulatory matters under the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice jurisdictions. Additionally, Machiraju spent several years in senior leadership roles at the FTC, including serving as attorney adviser to Chairman Joseph Simons, where he played a key role in overseeing the agency’s appellate litigation, antitrust conduct, merger investigations and congressional relations. He began his legal career as an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, focusing on antitrust issues.

“Leveraging his deep expertise in regulatory matters and competition law, Nandu will play a crucial role in NAB’s advocacy before the FCC, the Administration and federal courts,” said Kaplan. “Broadcasters will be well served by Nandu’s keen intellect, ability to build consensus and analytical approach, and we are thrilled to welcome him to NAB’s legal team.”

— RBR+TVBR in Northern Virginia

You may have heard the term MicroMPX and not been familiar with it. In the ebook “Trends in Codecs 2024” we asked Hans van Zutphen, founder and owner of Thimeo Audio Technology, to explain it. 

Radio World: What is MicroMPX and what should readers know about it?

Hans van Zutphen

Hans van Zutphen: MicroMPX is a specialized studio-to-transmitter or STL link codec. It transports a full FM composite MPX signal, including pilot and RDS, at a bit rate of only 320 kilobits per second, while ensuring perfect peak control. 

This technology allows for the generation and distribution of signals directly from the studio to multiple transmitters, eliminating the need for separate audio processors and stereo/RDS generators at each transmitter site. If you really need very low bit rates, the more aggressive MicroMPX+ codec can go down to 192 kbps.

We have designed MicroMPX specifically for FM. Making use of the known strengths and weaknesses of an FM signal, it avoids the typical artifacts associated with lossy codecs and it perfectly maintains peak control, even when using composite clipping, thus maintaining the integrity and quality of the broadcast signal.

RW: What inspired its creation?

Van Zutphen: We have been making FM processing software since 2007. We added a stereo/RDS encoder in our software 15 years ago, and a composite clipper shortly after that. This gives us access to the full signal, so we can take all kinds of things –—the stereo pilot, the stereo carrier phase, even the RDS data — into account in our clipper. 

This enables us to put more than 2 dB of extra loudness in the audio without clipping more, so the end result is louder, sounds cleaner and has more dynamics. On top of that, the fact that we know the total signal gives us real-time control over the RF bandwidth during FM transmission, which enhances reception quality.

Traditionally, most stations would send their raw left/right audio to transmitter sites and perform the processing there, or perform their main processing in the studio and then perform the stereo/RDS coding at the transmitter site, thereby losing all the benefits of composite processing unless there is a composite clipper at each transmitter and the processing is split between the studio and transmitter sites.

Sending the raw audio to the transmitter site is a good solution as long as the link is lossless. But using a lossy link will often seriously degrade the resulting audio. For an analog link, noise will be raised during quiet audio, and when using a lossy codec, many assumptions that the codec made about what’s audible will be voided by the processing, amplifying codec artifacts. 

In both cases, the input of the processor might sound fine to your ears, but the output can still be affected.

We received more and more requests from customers for an efficient solution to send the full composite signal from a studio to one or more transmitter sites, without excessive bandwidth consumption. Some of our customers would — if they used uncompressed MPX data — be sending more than 4 terabytes of data per day over the public internet, in some cases even over 4G or 5G or satellite links, without even counting backup links. 

Aside from the costs, just the amount of energy that’s basically wasted to send this much data over the internet is extreme.

As a company, we try to make at least one thing each year that nobody has done before, and this sounded like an interesting challenge. And our prior work gave us the expertise needed to do this. So we started to work on a codec, with a number of requirements:

• Preserve audio quality, loudness and peak control.
• Retain the advantages of composite clipping.
• No effect on FM reception.
• Reduce the bitrate as much as possible without breaking the other requirements.
• If the original signal complies to ITU recommendation ITU-R SM.1268 (a specific RF bandwidth mask), the decoded signal must as well. Most audio processors don’t guarantee SM.1268 compliance (but ours do), and this is the one requirement that we dropped for MicroMPX+ to achieve even lower bit rates. 

When we started, we were aiming for bit rates around 600 kilobits per second. But we managed to go much, much lower.

RW: How does the growing use of the cloud influence radio codecs and how they are deployed?

Van Zutphen: With the move to do more things in a central location — be it the cloud or just in the studio building — the setup can be made much simpler and better sounding at the same time. 

I have seen several media groups that run more than 40 stations on a single server, which does everything: processing, watermarking (Nielsen PPM, Kantar, Intrasonics), and generating the full MPX signal with pilot and RDS, which is then streamed to the transmitter sites with MicroMPX. 

With lots of stations with similar content but different ad breaks or local news, running everything on a single system easily keeps all the signals perfectly in sync with each other, and the whole configuration can easily be copied to create backup systems. All that’s needed at the transmitter sites aside from the transmitter is a simple MicroMPX decoder, if the transmitter doesn’t accept MicroMPX directly.

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Nandu Machiraju

Nandu Machiraju has joined the National Association of Broadcasters as senior vice president and deputy general counsel.

“Machiraju will develop and advance NAB’s policy goals across a broad range of issues that concern radio and television broadcasters, leading industry advocacy on Next GenTV and addressing a variety of spectrum matters and other regulatory issues,” the association said.

He will report to Rick Kaplan, chief legal officer and executive vice president, Legal and Regulatory Affairs. Machiraju success Patrick McFadden, who went to Sinclair earlier this year.

Kaplan cited his expertise in regulatory matters and competition law. “Nandu will play a crucial role in NAB’s advocacy before the FCC, the administration and federal courts,” Kaplan said in the announcement.

Machiraju was a partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP, advising clients on antitrust issues and regulatory matters under the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice jurisdictions. He formerly held senior leadership roles at the FTC, including serving as attorney adviser to Chairman Joseph Simons. He began his legal career as an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, focusing on antitrust issues.

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This is the fourth installment in a recurring series that looks back at developments that have shaped radio broadcasting during the past 100 years, noting advancements and historical moments month by month. Read March’s story here. 

The forerunner of today’s ‘telemedicine’ virtual physician’s visits was predicted by futurist Hugo Gernsback in this April 1924 issue of Radio News magazine.

100 Years Ago – April 1924: “Tele-medicine” is featured on the cover of the April issue of Hugo Gernsback’s Radio News magazine. Dubbed the “Radio Doctor” and intended as an April Fool’s spoof, the device is described as being able to remotely take temperature and pulse measurements, monitor heartbeats, and allow a remotely-located physician to view patients via television.

The imaginary device even allowed the examining physician to deliver a handwritten prescription. (Gernsback had a knack for predicting future technologies and launched the world’s first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.)

75 Years Ago – April 1949: All industry eyes are focused on Chicago’s Stevens Hotel, the site of the 27th annual NAB convention, which begins on April 11.

Main topics to be vetted are the impact of newly-arrived television on the long-established “sound broadcasting,” FM’s future, frequency allocations for new AM stations, and maintaining radio’s “security and stability in this helter-skelter electronic era.”

The convention’s engineering conference featured presentations on the NAB’s efforts to create a standard for magnetic tape recordings, tips on handling and storage of magnetic tape from manufacturer 3M, operation of 50 kW FM transmitters with high-gain antennas to provide ERPs of 300 to 600 kW, and a new GE “portable” remote amplifier weighing only 35 pounds.

50 Years Ago – April 1974: After languishing for nearly three decades, post-war FM broadcasting is finally beginning to gain consumer acceptance, so much so that the FCC has opened a window for comments on its proposal to tighten its 10-year-old AM/FM non-duplication rule from the current 50 percent duplication of programs to zero in markets of 100,000 or more, with exceptions being made for news or public affairs programming.

Also, the Electronic Industry Association (now the Consumer Technology Association) is arguing against a proposed radio “all-channel” rule requiring FM capability on all sets. The EIA says that an increase in factory-installed automobile AM-FM sets “obviates the need for passage” of the legislation. The EIA additionally stated that it would be “grossly unfair” to add the extra expense of dual-band capability to motorists, as FM reception is not that good in certain situations. It asserted that the marketplace would respond on its own as FM audiences grow.

25 Years Ago – April 1999: Controversy continues to brew over the FCC’s proposal to authorize a new class of low-power FMs. Proponents argue that such a service is needed “to counteract bland programming on larger group-owned stations,” with the NAB says it’s not needed, and declaring that “we strongly believe that programming diversity has never been greater.

Radio World is flooded with letters and emails offering both pro and con opinions from readers. Comments range from “Communities like Santa Monica, Calif. are clamoring for signals of 10 watts or less” to “the proposal would severely hurt the small-business AM owner who would be unable to compete on the FM band.”

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Here are the latest station totals from the FCC. These are the total number of licenses in each service in the United States as of the end of March 2024.

• AM 4,427
• FM commercial 6,663
• FM educational 4,320
• FM translators and boosters 8,913
• Low-power FM 1,960

The number of AM station licenses continues to decline over time. It is down by 17 licenses from December and by 45 from one year ago. (A decade ago there were more than 4,700 AMs.)

The number of FM commercial licenses is relatively stable, down 18 from December 2023 but at the same number as a year ago.

The FM NCE category is growing, following the 2021 application window. There are 34 more noncom FM licenses now than three months ago and 101 more than a year ago.

The number of FM translators and boosters is down 14 from December and 26 from a year ago, and the number of LPFMs is down seven from December and 39 from a year ago.

But we can expect the LPFM numbers to start growing again soon as the impact of the window to apply for new stations takes effect.

We’ll also be watching to see what happens in the translator and booster category over time. Stations will be able to advantage of the FCC’s decision to allow geotargeting, which presumably will give a boost to boosters; but until the final rules for that are settled, the boosters will be under one-year experimental licenses. Perhaps the FCC also will see fit finally to break out translators and boosters as separate totals in its reports.

For a look at the trend lines for these categories over 10 years, see this post from January.

 

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Ray’s has been offering heat pump services to Salmon and Challis, Idaho since 1971. It’s a family-owned operation, and always has been.

Now, the Infanger family is poised to add radio station owner to their business portfolio.

 

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A high wind storm with gusts reaching 90 mph hit West Virginia’s capitol on April 2, bringing down two of four radio towers serving WCHS(AM) and its sister station WSWW(FM).

WCHS is the flagship station of the statewide West Virginia MetroNews network, broadcasting news, talk and sports programming. The AM is licensed to Charleston, W. Va., serving Southern West Virginia and Southwestern West Virginia. WCHS is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Corporation of Charleston (WVRC) Media and is the Primary Entry Point Emergency Alert System station for the state.

The AM broadcasts at 580 kHz with 5 kW by day and night. It is nondirectional in daytime from one tower, and directional at night from four towers. In addition to its main signal, WCHS is relayed by two FM translators broadcasting on 96.5 and 104.5, all of which were off the air on Tuesday.

In the aftermath of the storm, on Wednesday, MetroNews shared the following photo on its Facebook page depicting the two remaining broadcast towers at its transmitter site.

“Where once there was four — now stand two,” wrote MetroNews. “A sad sight this morning from Institute looking toward Jefferson as two of the four towers which transmit our 580-WCHS signal were flattened by Tuesday’s high winds.”

The two remaining, standing towers. Photo credit: MetroNews Network

In West Virginia, about 140,000 customers were without electricity Tuesday afternoon, or about 14% of all customers tracked in the state, per data from PowerOutage.us. More than 53,000 utility customers in West Virginia remained in the dark Wednesday night.

WCHS shared photos of the wrecked transmitter site on Wednesday — taken by Ken Tennant, the director of engineering at WVRC Media.

As reported our @580WCHS Transmitter site was hard hit by the storm–losing two of the four towers which broadcast our signal. Here’s a look at the carnage from Engineer Ken Tennant . pic.twitter.com/lkOgz9NZhP

— Chris Lawrence (@WVOutdoors) April 3, 2024

In addition to WCHS, the tower site serves WSWW(FM), which is also owned by WVRC Media. WSWW is a country music-formatted station licensed to Craigsville, W. Va.

On April 3, WCHS shared on X that its three signals, in addition to WSWW’s FM signal, are back on the air.

We are back to broadcasting on the legacy station, 580 AM as well as FMs 96.5 and 104.5. 1490 WSWW has returned to regular programming.

Reds baseball has been delayed and you can hear the game this evening around 7:45 on 104.5, 96.5 FM and 580 WCHS! pic.twitter.com/NdUj7oCPxg

— 104.5 FM | 96.5 FM | 580 AM WCHS (@580WCHS) April 3, 2024

WCHS-TV, an ABC/Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, captured footage via drone of the two fallen towers, which was shared by WCHS(AM) staff on X.

Here’s a look from above at the aftermath of our tower collapse at the @580WCHS tower site on the ridge outside St. Albans. Tip of the cap to @wchs8fox11 their Drone Ranger for the pictures. pic.twitter.com/IkQPxwFCao

— Chris Lawrence (@WVOutdoors) April 4, 2024

According to CNN, West Virginia wasn’t the only state facing devastation from the recent storm. Sixteen tornadoes were reported Tuesday and Wednesday morning across Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, along with dozens of damaging wind reports, including gusts topping 100 mph in Kentucky.

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Natalie Knox, a longtime local radio industry figure in Maine, in June 2023 lost her battle with cancer. This led to the involuntary transfer of control of a 50kw Class B FM in Winter Harbor, Me., to attorney Rebecca Sargent Jr., who is handling Knox’s estate.

Now, the licensee that Knox was a 50/50 owner of is selling WNSX-FM “Star 97.7.”

The buyer is an individual very familiar with the home for “smooth rock ‘n’ roll.”

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It uses the FM frequency of 90.3 and has all but 4 watts, enabling this FM translator to serve the Florida city of Stuart, south of the St. Lucie River.

Soon, it will officially be in the hands of a large broadcast ministry.

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He’s worked in television since 1976, and has been at his current station since 1997. Now, at a yet-to-be-disclosed date this month, Fred Hunter will conclude his career, stepping aside from his role at WBRC-6 in Birmingham.

Hunter spoke with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson about his career, and the importance of weather to local news and broadcast television — as well as the “citizen journalist” in times of emergency — in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.fm.

Listen to “The InFOCUS Podcast: Fred Hunter” on Spreaker.

Shareholders of ESPN and ABC parent The Walt Disney Company have spoken, and based on the tabulation of its proxy solicitor, “it appears that Disney’s full slate of 12 directors has been elected by a substantial margin” over the nominees of The Trian Group and Blackwells at the company’s 2024 annual shareholders meeting.

While final voting tallies are subject to certification by Disney’s independent inspector of elections, and preliminary and final results will be included in the company’s forthcoming SEC filings, due in the next few days, it appears the battle waged by dissident shareholder Nelson Peltz for new leadership and a fresh business direction is over.

What’s next for Disney? Analysts at MoffettNathanson have shared their views on the matter.

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By Brian Galante
Special to RBR+TVBR

Qligent, the provider of cloud-based media delivery quality assurance solutions, is returning to the upcoming NAB Show with a product update, promising its users “a more efficient and economical monitoring and analysis platform.”

Qligent’s Vision 5 software release is based on a cloud-native microservices framework that allows a media organization to better serve distributed architectures for broadcast, cable, satellite and OTT/streaming networks.

Qligent developed Vision 5 to address the need for deeper end-to-end monitoring of next generation broadcast and MVPD networks, providing greater visibility across the entire media supply chain. Vision 5 uses a microservices approach that allows enterprise-level businesses to target core media services, including QoE/QoS/compliance monitoring, for specific media workflows, audiences and/or subscribers.

This, the company says, is especially helpful for broadcasters and MVPDs as they transition to remotely operated hybrid network models.

Qligent CEO Brick Eksten commented, “The microservices approach utilized in Vision 5 helps our customers as they move to hybrid networks, allowing them to scale on demand using cloud-native tools for both cloud/ground networks or the new linear networks that utilize OTT distribution and linear at the edge approaches. Vision 5 allows customers to use the same tools they use for managing the cloud or other high scale networks to conveniently deploy Vision as highly performant microservices, avoiding the forklift virtualization approach used in other systems. Vision 5 further integrates into the customer network by leveraging open standards and exposing modern APIs that the customer can utilize directly for deployment and monitoring of the network, allowing Vision to act as a central analytics, alarming and notification tool. This brings the monitoring by exception toolset to a truly enterprise scale. That same framework is designed with large, distributed architectures in mind, making it easier and more affordable to scale Vision networks to serve new locations.”

Vision 5 also offers a comprehensive monitoring and analysis solution for ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 signals. The Vision 5 release also builds in a detailed analytics platform to help users access underlying information on performance across the media supply chain through to the delivery point.

 

Qligent will show Vision 5 in Meeting Room W2079 (West Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center) at NAB Show 2024 from April 14-16.