A Report from a SMPTE ST 2110 Early Adopter: WTTG/WDCA Fox Television Builds an IP-Based Local Television Station

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 131, No. 5, pp. 38–44
Abstract: We describe the implementation of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards in the construction of a new television broadcast facility for two stations in the Washington, D.C., market. We discuss problems encountered during this project, which ran between 2019 and 2021, along with their solutions and lessons learned. Particular emphasis is placed on difficulties caused by the limited adoption of Networked Media Open Specification (NMOS) IS-04 and IS-05 by manufacturers in their ST 2110 devices.
Publication Date: 2022-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2022.3169754
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2022.3169754
Author(s): Jim Beahn
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Jim Beahn is the vice president of engineering and operations at WTTG/WDCA Fox Television Stations, Bethesda, MD. He has spent the last 35 years working in broadcast engineering and information technology for several of the local television stations in Washington, D.C.
Nikhilesh Kumar
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Nik Kumar is a broadcast systems engineering professional who has successfully managed and led project engineering and integration teams in completing system integration projects for a wide range of customers in the broadcast/media and entertainment industry for over 15 years. Kumar is currently a solutions architect with Diversified, Kenilworth, NJ, and has recently led the Diversified project engineering team in successfully launching WTTG–Fox5 D.C.,’s on-air production from a brand-new facility in Bethesda, MD. WTTG is Fox TV Group’s first full SMPTE ST 2110 implementation in the country. Kumar received a BS degree in electrical engineering as well as a master’s degree in engineering management.
Keyword(s): Broadcast Control (BC) System, Broadcast, COTS, Diversified, Fox Television Stations (FTS), Master Control, NMOS, News Production, PTP, SDP, ST 2022-7, ST 2110, Spine and Leaf Network
Copyright: © 2022 SMPTE

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Seamless Protection Switching of RTP Datagrams, 2019 EXTERNAL
Fox Television, Accessed: May 7, 2022 [Online]. Available: https://www.fox.com/ [2a]. SMPTE, ST 2110 FAQ, Accessed: May 7, 2022 [Online]. Available: https://www.smpte.org/smpte-st-2110-faq [2b]. SMPTE, ST 2110-20:2017, “Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks: Uncompressed Active Video,” pp. 1–22, Nov. 2017, doi: 10.5594/SMPTE, ST 2110-20:2017. [2c]. SMPTE, ST 2110-30:2017, “Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks: PCM Digital Audio,” pp. 1–9, Nov. 2017, doi: 10.5594/SMPTE, ST 2110-30:2017. [2d]. SMPTE, ST 2110-40:2018, “Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks: SMPTE, ST 291-1 Ancillary Data,” pp. 1–8, April 2018, doi: 10.5594/SMPTE.ST2110-40:2018. EXTERNAL
Transport of High Bit Rate Media Signals over IP Networks (HBRMT), 2012 EXTERNAL

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