WRAL-TV opts for hi-def news.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 2000 by Dickson, Glen

Panasonic equipment will support NTSC and DTV broadcasts HDTV pioneer WRAL-TV Raleigh, N.C., has taken another big step into the digital future, closing a deal with Panasonic Broadcast to convert its entire news operation to HDTV. The Capitol Broadcasting station and CBS affiliate was the first station to launch DTV signals, in 1996, and has been a leader in producing local programming in HDTV, even forming a joint venture with production firm HD Vision to build an HDTV mobile truck.

Now WRAL-TV aims to be the first station to acquire all of its studio and field news footage in HDTV, using Panasonic's 1080-line interlace DVCPRO HD tape gear. (KING-DT and KOMO-DT in Seattle launched HDTV newscasts last year but shoot their field material in SDTV and...

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