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

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.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2022-06

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Broadcast control (BC) system, broadcast television, commercially available off the shelf (COTS), Diversified, Fox Television Stations (FTS), master control (MC), Networked Media Open Specification (NMOS) IS-04 and IS-05, newscast production, Precision Timing Protocol (PTP), Session Description Protocol (SDP), SMPTE ST 2022-7, SMPTE ST 2110, spine and leaf network

DOI

10.5594/JMI.2022.3169754