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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stated that broadcasters are barred under their federal license terms from engaging in 'news distortion' or 'broadcast hoaxes,' a warning issued as polling shows declining approval numbers for President Trump. Carr's comments raise the prospect of regulatory scrutiny over how networks report and frame polling data.
Nvidia released Broadcast 2.3, introducing a beta Eye Contact effect that adjusts a speaker's gaze to simulate eye contact with the camera, plus a new Vignette effect that can be paired with Background Blur for a bokeh-style look. The update also brings enhanced Virtual Background effects usable directly in OBS, Streamlabs and Elgato Camera Hub via updated redistributables. Nvidia says Broadcast's active users have doubled year over year, with over 20 partners integrating its effects and several laptop makers preinstalling it.
The Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is moving from traditional broadcast television to Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. This marks a shift in how the television industry's top honors will be distributed to viewers going forward.
Amazon revealed that the Emmy Awards will be broadcast exclusively on Prime Video from 2027, marking the first time the ceremony has a dedicated streaming platform. The event will be accessible worldwide in over 240 countries and territories, free for six years, with non-Prime members able to watch on the platform. The deal's financial terms remain undisclosed.
Apple deployed 14 iPhone 18 Pro Max devices among 30 total cameras to capture Friday's Apple TV Plus broadcast of the Dodgers versus Giants game at Dodger Stadium, marking the first live sports broadcast using the new iPhones without dedicated sports lenses. The phones were mounted on tripods, tucked into padded cushions near home plate and the backstop, and placed in dugouts, bullpens, and on a gimbal above the outfield wall.
Apple Music is opening a dedicated concert venue inside Battersea Power Station in London, where it will host ticketed shows for the public. The space is designed primarily to help Apple produce original performance content with artists that will then be broadcast through Apple Music.
ESPN, set to air its first Super Bowl in 2027, has begun planning ways to use Disney's broad portfolio of characters and franchises to draw in a wider television audience. Preparations reportedly started almost immediately after the conclusion of the 2026 Super Bowl, with executives exploring cross-promotional tie-ins tied to Disney's intellectual property.
A technical blog post offers a hands-on, browser-based walkthrough of the spanning tree protocol (STP), the networking standard that keeps Ethernet switches from forming loops that cause broadcast storms. Using a playful office scenario with redundant cables and an accident-prone coworker, it demonstrates how STP blocks extra links to form a loop-free tree and automatically rebuilds it when a connection fails.
Digital TV antennas sold online, some marketed with claimed ranges up to 6,000 miles, cannot actually deliver anything close to that distance because of basic physics. Signal reception depends on a relatively clear line of sight to a broadcast transmitter, and Earth's curvature, along with buildings, hills and trees, limits how far a signal can realistically travel before dropping below the horizon.
After the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an FCC order that extended discounted 'lowest unit charge' TV ad rates to political parties and joint fundraising committees, the National Republican Congressional and Senatorial Committees said they will petition the Supreme Court. The 4th Circuit denied their request for an emergency stay but issued the mandate immediately, clearing the way for a Supreme Court appeal.
A developer built a web demo that replicates the broadcast 'squeezeback'—the effect where a video feed shrinks into a corner while surrounding space fills with graphics or extra content. Instead of baking this into pre-rendered video like a typical online example, the demo uses a CSS Grid with animated track sizes, placing the video player in a live, resizable cell chosen at playback time.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to block an FCC Media Bureau notice that would have let political parties and joint fundraising committees, not just individual candidates, claim the discounted 'lowest unit charge' broadcast ad rate ahead of the election. Four Democratic candidates had sued, arguing federal law reserves that discount for candidates alone, while national Republican committees backed the FCC's broader interpretation.