The recipients of TVNewsCheck’s annual Technology Women to Watch Awards — ScreenHits TV’s Rose Adkins Hulse and FreeWheel’s Yushi Xu — are emerging as promising innovators in the VOD and ad tech realms. They’ll participate in a TVN webinar with the other WIT honorees on Sept. 28 (register here) and receive their awards at the NAB Show on Oct. 12 (register here).
Vayyar, a provider of 4D imaging radar, has launched what it calls the world’s most advanced mmWave development module. Powered by a highly integrated 4D imaging Radar-on-Chip (RoC), ‘Vayyar Element’ […]
Executives from Tegna, E.W. Scripps, Hearst and Gray told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week that the cloud’s impact on master control operations is still years off, with those who have adopted hubbing still depending on traditional equipment.
LiveU, a provider of live video streaming and remote production solutions, played a pivotal role in this year’s Summer Games. The Tokyo Games saw a 400% increase in LiveU deployment […]
NAI, a designer and manufacturer of custom interconnect solutions which deliver power and signals to monitor data, connect people and keep equipment operating, continues its introduction of new standard interconnect […]
Jochen Fuchs, group general counsel of the Arvato Systems Group, has additionally assumed the role of chief human resources manager. He succeeds Siegfried Bloch, who is retiring as planned at […]
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Videon, a provider of edge computing for video, today appointed Tricia Iboshi, previously chief operating officer at Videon, as chief executive officer and also named several senior marketing, operations and […]
Red House Streaming, a CP Communications brand, has rolled out upgrades to one of the two studios at its St. Petersburg-based professional and network operations center (NOC) to create an enhanced chromakey space. […]
The recipients of TVNewsCheck’s annual Women in Technology Futurist Award — Universal Pictures’ Annie Chang and KNSD’s Donna Stewart — have shown exceptional abilities to anticipate technology trends and help their organizations pivot nimbly to meet them. They’ll participate in a TVN webinar with the other WIT honorees on Sept. 28 (register here) and receive their awards at the NAB Show on Oct. 12.
SMPTE today announced that the SMPTE+ virtual event Migrating Media & Entertainment Into the Cloud: A Real-World Perspective, now scheduled for Aug. 31, will feature a session exploring preservation, continuity […]
Marcy Lefkovitz, Disney’s VP, technology and workflow strategy, receives the highest honor in TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Awards for her groundbreaking work marrying state-of-the-art technologies with smart, efficient workflows.
Synamedia Buys ContentArmor To Strengthen Its Video Security Portfolio With Edge And 5G Watermarking
Synamedia, an independent video software provider, today acquired ContentArmor, a privately-held developer of forensic watermarking solutions for the media and entertainment industry. By adding ContentArmor’s technology, patents and expertise to […]
Technology provider Avid reported that its total revenue increased 19.7% year-over-year in the second quarter, driven by continued growth in subscription revenue, which was $21.5 million, an increase of 30.9% […]
Called NBC Sports Next, it unifies the SportsEngine, GolfNow and NBC Sports Enterprise platforms.
NBCU Local Adds AR To Weather Coverage Arsenal
Nate Johnson, director of weather operations for NBCUniversal Local, says the group’s NBC and Telemundo stations are using augmented reality to enhance weather reporting. Every tool counts, he emphasizes, since competition for talent is getting stiffer as Fox readies its own weather network. Note: This story is available to TVNewsCheck Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you log in at the very top right corner of the site or in the Stay Connected Box that appears in the right column of virtually every page on the site. If you don’t see Member Home, you will need to click Log In or Subscribe.
Local TV Discovers The Benefits Of QR Codes
QR codes became mainstream during the pandemic when restaurants began using the bar codes to allow diners touchless to menus. Now TV stations are finding that QR codes can be used to drive website traffic and app downloads. Their functionality “crosses sales and news,” says Mitchell West, regional director at Nexstar.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a chief engineer, a sales executive and a sales account executive.
BitFire, an end-to-end live video transmission and production solution, has hired Kristin Akimchuk as director of broadcast operations. In her new role, Akimchuk is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of BitFire […]
PrimeTime Lighting Systems has debuted its smallest broadcast studio LED, the MSLED 5-S. It features the same professional quality broadcast components as used in all of PrimeTime’s studio lights. It […]
ATG Danmon has completed a large-scale upgrade to the news production and editing facilities at the London headquarters of Alaraby Television. Based in Park Royal, London, Alaraby broadcasts via satellite […]
Grass Valley has released three new SDI/IP production solutions for cameras, switchers and replay. The company says these tools “not only provide the best images available, they also reduce complexity with […]
Cobalt Digital has released an enhanced version of its 9904-UDX family of openGear advanced scaler/frame synchronizers. The 9904-UDX series of Up/Down/Cross Converter/Frame Sync/Embed/De-Embed Audio Processors now accepts 3G Level B-DL signals in addition […]
V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has had its codec-enhancer V-Nova LCEVC validated for use in mobile devices following laboratory testing by market-leading testing and certification company Kineton. Outlined within […]
EditShare, a technology provider of software to enable collaborative media workflows for storytellers, today released its Q3 technology update with improvements to the way customer access, monitor, and configure FLOW and […]
Continuous advances in AI, machine learning and natural language processing have boosted automated closed captioning’s value well beyond regulation compliance. Above: The caption edit user interface for Digital Nirvana’s Trance transcription and captioning solution.
Solid State Logic (SSL) has rolled out the latest v3.1 feature release for the System T broadcast platform with key developments providing significant production flexibility and expansion. Core to the […]
Gravity Media, A global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors, has named Terry Brady an adviser in the U.S., which the […]
Telestream, a provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, today introduced new functionality in its Lightspeed Live […]
TVU Networks, a provider of cloud and IP-based live video solutions, is partnering with Blackbird plc, developer and seller of the Blackbird cloud-native video editing and publishing platform, to add access to […]
