Issues to Be Considered—The Implementation of a Digital Distribution System by the Commercial Broadcast Networks

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 106, No. 11, pp. 795–798
Abstract: The national commercial broadcast networks' program origination and distribution/transmission infrastructures have gone through various technological and operational changes since the inception of the centralized network-to-affiliate interconnect systems were first developed in the 1950s. The networks now face what is probably the most technologically challenging and far-reaching change in their history—the migration to a digital distribution system. This paper will review the various technical, operational, and economic/business issues that the networks will be examining as they develop their digital migration plans. The issues will be reviewed in the context of how the distribution systems currently function and how the features and functions could operate in the digital world.
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/J17645
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J17645
Author(s): Brent L. StranathanCBS, Inc., New York, NY 10019
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Brent Stranathan is vice-president, broadcast distribution, CBS, Inc., with senior executive responsibility for the program integration and distribution of the CBS Television Network to its affiliates nationwide. In his position, which he has held for seven years, he is intricately involved in the planning, development, and implementation of video and audio system technologies that support the gathering of video/audio source material and its on-air presentation. Stranathan is currently head of a team at CBS exploring various video compression technologies and how the network's distribution process, both origination and transmission components, will migrate into the digital world. Stranathan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from California State University, San Francisco; is a member of various industry trade organizations; and often speaks on the subject of media operations.
Copyright: © 1997 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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