At the FCC's behest, the NTSC television standard went into effect exactly seven years later.

The cinema industry standard, also known as ultra high definition, offers a greatly enhanced picture and is expected to become a television standard by 2017.

That was 13 months after rival Sky Television , which shared the SES Astra 1A satellite and used the common European PAL television standard.

Conversely, FM is a cheap, universal broadcast standard that works brilliantly and will co-exist seamlessly in converged consumer hardware for years to come.

Mason and her network counterparts have broadcast standards and procedures they follow in these cases.

Nearly 1,500 projectors linked by 108 km of cabling will produce enough light to meet High Definition television broadcast standards.

But it was his comments about the White House -and its occupant -that got him in trouble with ABC's Broadcast Standards & Practices.