Regulation of radio began in 1910 when Congress passed modest legislation over the infant wireless communication industry. Following the development of broadcasting and a surge of growth during the 1920s, the Radio Act of 1927 was passed. The act created an independent commission to determine regulatory policy for broadcasting in the United States. The venerable Communications Act of 1934 expan...

We present an algorithm to solve the Frequency Assignment Problem for mobile cellular systems and radio and television broadcasting. Frequencies must be assigned to transmitters in order to meet interference requirements and so that the overall signal/noise ratio is satisfactory. The basic scheme is an exact enumerative method, provided with ̄xing criteria to reduce the size of the instances. L...

Managing broadcasting television is not the same as managing companies in general. Moreover if there a da’wah mission. Management concepts are necessarily applicable management. Integrating it means balancing interests of media owner and public audience well rights to frequency managed by broadcast media. While must continue function entertainment, information, services economic functions. Broa...

In the attempt to bring modern broadband Internet features to traditional broadcast television, the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium introduced a specification called Hybrid Broadcast-Broadband Television (HbbTV), which allows broadcast streams to include embedded HTML content which is rendered by the television. This system is already in very wide deployment in Europe, and has recen...

The digital television development is one of the most important events in the history of television broadcasting. This paper highlights the user interface issue in digital television environment. We will not discuss the usability of user interface design, but rather the implementation of user interface for interactive television services. The background of Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) and App...

The paper discuses how the imminent transition to the digital terrestrial television in UHF (Digital Switchover) could be employed towards enabling always-on connectivity and triple-play services access even from rural and dispersed locations, i.e. in areas where no termination/connection exists between the local PSTN exchanger and the optical fibre core backbone. Exploiting the European digita...

Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (TDMB) is one popular broadcasting standard that enable digital television transmissions to hand held receivers and cooperative system take advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels, uses relay stations as virtual antennas. Relay stations are an attractive solution to penetrate the wireless system with lower transmitting power at the Base...

Scope: The book provides the most up-to-date introduction to digital video and television. The entire process is covered, from video production, to its delivery through broadcasting or streaming. Video acquisition, color theory and visual quality are presented. Video compression and broadcasting systems are overviewed. The latest trends in 3DTV and digital cinema production are also presented. ...

The new generation of television viewers is currently being confronted and becoming acquainted with a series of technological developments in the realm of consumer electronics and gaming that raise their expectations for similar advances in TV broadcasts. The MELISA platform aims at the cross-media broadcasting of sports events featuring interactive advertising and sports-related games over dig...