Canon Drops Out Of NAB Show And InfoComm

Canon U.S.A., a provider of consumer, business-to-business and industrial digital imaging solutions issued the following statement: “Due to the ongoing health and safety concerns presented by the COVID-19 delta variant, […]

Amazon Unveils Branded TVs In U.S., Starting At $370

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Retreats To Virtual

Originally set for Oct. 11-14 in Atlanta, the cable industry’s big technology trade show is the latest major event to retreat to a Zoom screen amid COVID-19’s delta variant surge.

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Panasonic Withdraws From NAB Show 2021

Panasonic said today that it will not attend the upcoming NAB Show in Las Vegas. Carter Hoskins, the companys director, professional imaging, said in a statement: “In place of participating in-person, we’re planning to meet and connect with our valued customers via our digital platforms where we look forward to sharing our exciting announcements. We are confident a digital experience will be effective, similar to events we’ve hosted over the last 18 months.”

Amagi Secures Over $100M To Accelerate Cloud-Led Innovations

Amagi, a global provider of cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, announced today that Accel, Avataar Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and existing investor Premji Invest have collectively invested […]

Just Add Power Releases New Driver For Luxul’s Managed L2/L3 Gigabit Switches

Just Add Power, a provider of AV-over-IP distribution, rolled out a new driver supporting Luxul’s SW-510-48P-F, SW-610-24P-R, and SW-610-48P-F managed L2/L3 Gigabit switches. Just Add Power said: “Providing seamless integration […]

Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb. Now Facebook Is Giving Them A Try

The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.

VuWall Reduces Video Wall Integration Time With TRx Version 3.1

VuWall, a provider of video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, today has released TRx version 3.1, the company’s centralized video wall management platform. The company says its TRx […]

Riedel Hires Oliver Zimmermann As Director Of Manufacturing

Oliver Zimmermann today was named director of manufacturing for Riedel Communications. A physicist, supply chain expert and change management specialist with more than a decade of experience in the manufacturing […]

ASG’s Virtual Production Control Room Includes Grass Valley AMPP

Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a solutions provider for media creatives and content owners, has partnered with Grass Valley to integrate the Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP) cloud-based software as a […]

7 Production Taps TSL To Provide Complete Control For 4K OB Truck

7 Production, a provider of 4K and HD production solutions, provides live technical support to broadcasters, production companies, event organizers and government entities in the EMEA territory. When the company […]

Blackbird And TownNews Expand To 75 U.S. Stations

Blackbird plc, the developer and seller of the cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, said today that Blackbird is now being used by 75 U.S. TV stations for digital news production […]

New FOR-A 32-Channel Multi Viewer Supports Multi-Format Productions, Customized Layouts

FOR-A Corporation of America said today that its MV‑3240 multi viewer, a 32-channel, multi-format multi viewer that supports customized layouts with up to 25 windows for one 4K output. FOR-A will demonstrate the new MV-3240 […]

Google Cloud Joins SRT Alliance

Haivision, a global provider of mission-critical, real-time video streaming and networking solutions, today announced that Google Cloud has joined the SRT Alliance, a collaborative community of more than 500 product, […]

Cobalt Iron Sets API Integration With ServiceNow

Cobalt Iron, a provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced a new user-configurable API integration with ServiceNow. The new integration means that the Cobalt Iron Compass enterprise SaaS backup […]

SMPTE Announces 2021 Award Recipients

The tech society will recognize the honorees during its annual awards gala.

Evertz Attending NAB 2021 With New Content Creation & Consumption Solutions

Evertz, a global provider of media and entertainment technology solutions, will be attending NAB 2021 in Las Vegas with a range of solutions that it says “address the significant changes […]

Haivision And Grass Valley Fuel Real-Time Video Contribution For Live Cloud Production

Haivision, a global provider of real-time video streaming and networking solutions, and Grass Valley introduced a solution that enables high-quality, low latency, multi-camera live contribution into Grass Valley’s GV AMPP […]

Studio 1A Gets Curvy Update Designed To Unify ‘Today’ Space’s Look

WOAI Steps Smoothly Around Power Outage

Sony Pulls Out of NAB Show 2021

Theresa Alesso, Pro Division president, Sony Electronics, said “we’ve considered the unprecedented circumstances and made the difficult decision that we will not be participating in person at next month’s NAB Show or InfoComm.”

Forget Netflix, Some Movie Fans Rewind To VHS Tapes

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New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in sales, news, engineering, social/digital, and executive management.

Amazon Reportedly Set To Festoon Its Brand Onto Smart TVs

DuJuan McCoy Establishes Big Data Company

DuJuan McCoy, owner, president and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (parent company of Indianapolis duopoly WISH (CW) and WNDY (MNT), has teamed up with data scientist and co-founder Roosevelt Smith to launch eMedia Augmentation […]

VuWall Releases New 510 All-in-One SDVoE Encoder/Decoder

VuWall, a provider of video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, has expanded its VuStream encoder and decoder family with the new VuStream 510 appliance. Fully SDVoE compatible, the […]

Live Events Specialist Rees Williams Joins CJP Broadcast

Multimedia systems integrator, equipment specialist and service provider CJP Broadcast has added Rees Williams as broadcast engineer. He joins the company after four years with event presentation company Universal Live […]

PSI Broadcasting Selects PlayBox Neo Playout Systems For New HD Channels

Thai television broadcaster and playout service provider PSI Broadcasting has expanded its investment in PlayBox Neo equipment with the purchase of latest-generation Channel-in-a-Box servers for integration into its Bangkok headquarters. […]

Video Journalist Taps JVC Connected Cam For Aviation Documentary

A storyteller by nature, Annalisa Russell-Smith has been a video journalist for 13 years for a variety of high-profile clients and her work has appeared in media outlets around the […]

Celebro Chooses Quicklink ST500 Studio-In-A-Box

Celebro Media, a provider of live TV services to broadcasters, has partnered with Quicklink as part of its new global studio project. Quicklink’s ST500 (studio-in-a-box) solution has been chosen to […]