NAB 2012: CBC, CRC back new Future of Broadcast TV initiative

LAS VEGAS – CBC and Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) are among the 13 international television broadcast organizations that signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday forming the Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) initiative. Announced during the NAB convention, the agreement builds on the Future of Broadcast TV Summit held last November in Shanghai, China, where broadcasting leaders established a framework for cooperation to chart the future course of terrestrial television broadcasting. The FOBTV signatories support terrestrial broadcasting which they say is uniquely important because it is wireless (supports receivers that can move), infinitely scalable (point-to-multipoint and one-to-many architecture), local (capable of delivering...