Digital Television & Digital Audio Broadcasting Links

Planning Software

• http://www.v-soft.com/ (LW / MW / SW (limited) / VHF / UHF)
  

International Satellite Telecommunications

• Satco-DX Current SAT (TV / RADIO / DATA) frequency listings, usage patterns.
• lyngsat.com (like SatCoDx.com)
• linowsat.com (current digital sat allocations, with RSS)

Technology (DTV)

• Wiki category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Video_formats
  
• Wiki category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:VideoProcessing

Standards Conversion / Systems Conversion

• http://www.tech-retro.com/Aurora_Design/World_Converter.html (Converts to defunct TV formats like System A)
• http://www.snellwilcox.com/products/ (HD up/down conversion, standards conversion, video restoration)
  

Technology (DAB)

• Wiki category:
  
• bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/papers/ (BBC DAB & DTV research)

Frequency and Call Letters Search

• http://www.radio-locator.com/ (Finds unused US frequencies only, lists frequency use globally)

Broadcasting Organizations (Commercial)

• dba.org.au (Australia Terrestrial DTV)
• broadcastaustralia.com.au (provides terrestrial broadcasting services)

Mass Media News

HDTV (Widescreen)

• hdtvtotal.com (HDTV general technical info website)
• widescreentv.info  (HDTV info for household users)
• myfreehdtv.org (Acrodyne Industries public service ad site)

Radio & TV Broadcasting

• http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?cat=1 (Media Network, Radio Netherlands; RSS feeds)
• http://www.rnw.nl/cgi/index.php?app=mediaNetwork (email list subs settings)
  
• http://www.thevideoguru.com/ (Help guide and print publication links)
• http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/ (Print publication, North America)
• http://www.tvbeurope.com/ (Print publication, Europe)

Weather Radar

• http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html (Canada)
• http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/  (Australia)
• http://www.metservice.com/default/index.php?pkey=190528&ckey=197917  (NZ)

Lobbying for the state broadcaster, a necessary evil in some cases...

• supportcbc.ca (Canada)
• publicairwaves.ca (Canada)

Broadcasting Trusts

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/ (UK, Entity is more like a charitable foundation.)
• http://www.worldservice.co.nz/ (BBCWS in NZ)

Miscellany & Historical

• http://www.idents.tv/blog/ (TV Idents)
• http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Default.html (CBC Programming History)
• http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/ (Canadian Broadcasting History)

Last Revised: 29 APRIL 2009