Systems and methods for electronic news gathering

A method comprising acts of:

• receiving video from electronic news gathering (ENG) equipment, wherein:
• the video is transmitted wirelessly by at least one network modem of the ENG equipment to at least one base station of an ENG network using a Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS) frequency band;
• at least some data packets transmitted wirelessly by the at least one network modem to the at least one base station are provided by at least one video encoder based on at least one input video signal;
• communication between the at least one network modem and the at least one base station use a radio frame comprising a series of subframes which divide the radio frame in time;
• one or more first subframes in the series of subframes are used for a downlink from the at least one base station;
• and
• one or more second subframes in the series of subframes are used for an uplink to the at least one base station;
• and
• monitoring usage of the uplink;
• and
• determining based at least in part on the usage of the uplink, whether to change from a current allocation pattern to a new allocation pattern, wherein at least some of the one or more first subframes is switched from the downlink to the uplink;
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• in response to determining to change from the current allocation pattern to the new allocation pattern, broadcasting the new allocation pattern via the ENG network, wherein a change in allocation pattern is effected at most once per a selected time interval.

At least one computer-readable medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising acts of:

• receiving video from electronic news gathering (ENG) equipment, wherein:
• the video is transmitted wirelessly by at least one network modem of the ENG equipment to at least one base station of an ENG network using a Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS) frequency band;
• at least some data packets transmitted wirelessly by the at least one network modem to the at least one base station are provided by at least one video encoder based on at least one input video signal;
• communication between the at least one network modem and the at least one base station uses a radio frame comprising a series of subframes which divide the radio frame in time;
• one or more first subframes in the series of subframes are used for a downlink from the at least one base station;
• and
• one or more second subframes in the series of subframes are used for an uplink to the at least one base station;
• and
• monitoring usage of the uplink;
• and
• determining based at least in part on the usage of the uplink, whether to change from a current allocation pattern to a new allocation pattern, wherein at least some of the one or more first subframes is switched from the downlink to the uplink;
• and
• in response to determining to change from the current allocation pattern to the new allocation pattern, broadcasting the new allocation pattern via the ENG network, wherein a change in allocation pattern is effected at most once per a selected time interval.