Comcast and Team Gleason have partnered to drive inclusive innovation to improve the independence and quality of life for people with physical and speech disabilities, including those living with ALS. […]
Ateme, a provider of video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, says that Canal+ has launched one of the world’s first deployments of OTT low-latency streaming on AppleTV […]
IBC announced that its call for technical papers is now open for the IBC 2022 Conference (Sept. 9-12). The Technical Papers Program welcomes entries from all industry sectors across the […]
Planar, a global provider of visualization technology, and co-owned OptiTrack, which offers 3D tracking systems, have joined other industry leaders and SMPTE to form The Advisory Group of the On-Set […]
Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Germany’s second-largest public broadcaster with offices in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, has chosen Wolftech News as its future production planning tool. SWR joins BBC, RTL, VRT, TV2 Norway […]
AT&T and Verizon on Tuesday each agreed to temporarily delay their 5G rollouts near certain airports amid concerns over possible flight disruptions. The move follows mounting outside pressure and comes amid warnings from U.S. airlines that new 5G wireless service that was set to start Wednesday could ground flights and leave potentially thousands of Americans stranded while also delaying goods.
Exclusives
With its publication in the Federal Register, the comment deadlines for the FCC’s request for input on making multichannel video programming distributors’ closed captioning settings more accessible have been set. Initial comments are due Feb. 17 and replies March 4.
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) announced that the Fórum Sistema Brasileiro TV Digital Terrestre (SBTVD Forum) has recommended to the Brazilian government the selection of several technologies proposed by […]
Telestream, a global provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, today expanded its executive team with two new senior appointments. Jon […]
Complex video streaming just got simpler. Broadpeak today launched Broadpeak.io. — the company’s brand-new software as a service (SaaS). Broadpeak’s new API-based platform offers content providers, pay TV operators and OTT […]
Rise, an advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology, today appointed a new head of Americas and head of sponsorship for the North American chapter, which was formed […]
AMG says Google Cloud’s scalable cloud infrastructure will power AMG’s digital evolution, allowing it to build apps faster, make smarter business decisions and connect to its audiences anywhere through data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
What does the future of journalism look like as AI and automated technologies take hold in other industries? The AP is working hard toward that future, and it’s working with news organizations across the country to figure out how AI can best help local newsrooms.
Broadcast Pix has introduced a new software release for its entire range of integrated production systems. V9.0 software is now available on all new Broadcast Pix systems, and as a free download […]
The entertainment professionals at Digital Cinema Collective say they create exceptional productions with a smile. Those smiles have broadened since adding SilverBack-V fiber camera adapters from MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Solutions to its live production model. The […]
Inside Newsday’s Live Production Facility
The Long Island newspaper has remade itself as a multimedia news producer with a two-studio, multimillion-dollar production operation and a team of MMJs ramping up extensive video coverage. (Newsday photo)
Digital Nirvana today hired Tom Moniak as director of sales. Digital Nirvana created the position in response to the company’s growth and expansion. Moniak is responsible for sales to media […]
3Play Media, a video accessibility provider, has rolled out Live Professional Captioning, what it calls “the first captioning platform to offer professional captioning by a human with auto captioning failover. […]
NCME Brings JSTV Playout Operations In-House With Rohde & Schwarz Gallium, StreamMaster & SpycerNode
Pixel Power, a global provider of master control playout, automation, graphics and branding, has been contracted to deliver an end-to-end ingest, storage and playout solution to NHK CosmoMedia (Europe) Ltd. [NCME]. […]
Research from NVISA and ONE Media 3.0 confirms the crucial role of broadcast media in times of crisis and highlights the potential demand for such information in the mobile environment.
The U.S. broadcast TV could generate as much as $15 billion a year by 2030 from the provision of datacasting services enabled by ATSC 3.0, according to a deck revealed to investors Wednesday by Nexstar Media. That’s more than the $13 billion a year broadcasters currently make from retransmission fees.
WorldCast Group, a solutions provider for media and broadcast, has added Cyrus Uible to its U.S. team as application engineer and solution architect. Based in Miami, Cyrus’ appointment reflects the […]
UHD, immersive audio and 5G highlight the tech advances for the Olympic Broadcasting Services, whose CTO, Sotiris Salamouris, had to deal with challenges that arose following the postponment of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games that left only six months between the two events.
Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a solutions provider for media creatives and content owners, announced that Jorge Dighero has joined the company as director of cloud production engineering. Already a veteran […]
The implementation of 5G wireless technology has created a strain on radio frequency spectrum that is putting the industry at odds with administration agencies, with the FCC stuck in the middle. One analyst compares it to the 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, where a ravenous, human-eating plant can’t be sated. Similarly, telecommunications companies appear to have an endless need for additional bandwidth to provide ever-faster mobile data services.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an IT manager, a sales and management chief, a digital product manager, a graphic artist, a general manager, a weekend evening and morning co-anchor/MMJ and a weekend meteorologist/MMJ.
The Consumer Technology Association said on the show’s closing day that more than 40,000 people attended the multi-day event on the Las Vegas Strip. That’s less than a quarter of the more than 170,000 the CTA said were there for its 2020 convention.
