8 June 2004
As announced at NAB 2004, Harris Corporation has developed new technology that offers FM stations a significantly more efficient method of transmitting an HD Radio(tm) signal. The patents-pending approach of the company’s new Split-Level Combining System can reduce an FM station’s energy costs by as much as 25 percent over High-Level Combining, and enables stations to continue using existing FM analog transmitters that are already operating near peak capacity.
“This new, more efficient method of adding HD Radio to FM stations is sparking great interest among FM broadcasters,” said Jeremy C. Wensinger, president, Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “Our engineers estimate that a station’s overall power consumption could be between 5 and 25 percent less than with High-Level Combining.”
Split-Level Combining utilizes the existing FM transmitter and a new common-amplification FM/HD Radio transmitter to generate the required FM analog power. Driving both ports of the high-power combiner with analog FM power improves combining efficiency, reduces combiner losses, reduces existing FM transmitter power requirements and improves overall system efficiency, resulting in lower monthly operating costs. With the Split-Level Combining System, the analog transmitter is no longer required to operate at higher-than-normal power levels to offset combining losses.
Split-Level Combining also allows a station to use the existing transmission line and antenna system for optimum radiation of both the digital and analog signals. Additionally, for stations with physical space constraints at their transmitter site, Split-Level Combining allows broadcasters to remove the current backup transmitter and utilize the common amplification FM/HD Radio transmitter as a lower power backup FM transmitter.
7 June 2004
The AIB’s annual summit of the broadcasting industry, the Global Media Business Conference, was launched at an event in London on Thursday 18th March.
Bringing together AIB members, industry executives, journalists and politicians, the launch provided a comprehensive briefing about the 2004 Global Media Business Conference which will be held in Prague on 12 and 13 May.
For more information, contact Anver Anderson on +44 (0) 1245 399 965
7 June 2004
To mark the opening of the AIB’s Asia-Pacific office in Sydney, a networking evening was held on Thursday 26 February.
Hosted by Kerry Stevenson, the AIB’s Communications Director who is based in Sydney, the event brought together a range of global media executives and experts.
7 June 2004
Easy online registration for the third annual AIB Global Media Business Conference is now available.
The Global Media Business Conference is the meeting place of the international broadcasting industry, and this year the event takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 May.
Full details are available in the Conference section of this website.
1 June 2004
From 1 June Kingston inmedia, one of the industrys leading communications service providers, will trade simply as Inmedia. The change follows the leveraged buyout in April 2004 by management and The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. The focus of the name change is business and brand continuity. Inmedia will continue to deliver broadcast, enterprise and carrier solutions for content owners, programme makers, broadcasters, corporations, carriers and ISPs using satellite and terrestrial technologies.
It really is business as usual for those who work at Inmedia and in the past few weeks since the acquisition weve had lots of positive feedback from the industry and our customers. We chose to stay with the Inmedia name as we feel it is very relevant to all aspects of our business. In all fairness a lot of our customers and partners have called us Inmedia for some time now and we wanted to make sure that they know they can expect the same high levels of service and product innovation that they have become used to, says Nick Thompson, Chief Executive of Inmedia.
1 June 2004
On 1 June DW Director General Erik Bettermann welcomed the international broadcasters first nine foreign language trainees who, over the next year, will learn their bi-media journalistic trade at the DW Academy and eventually join DWs foreign language services in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Hindi and Kiswahili. The nine trainees were chosen from over 200 applicants.
