Based on its recent analysis of the North American 5G network applications market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes LiveU with the North America New Product Innovation Award for its LU800 unit. The solution uses 5G […]
Baron, a worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence and Baron Lynx to broadcast markets across North America, has promoted Mike Mougey to chief revenue officer. He will also retain his […]
Extreme Reach, a provider of a TV and video advertising asset management solution, is buying Adstream, a global provider of digital asset management, creative logistics and analytics solutions. Through the […]
NewTek, a provider of IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, has introduced the NewTek 3Play 3P2 video replay and telestration system that delivers instant replays for sports productions. […]
Electronic Arts Competitive Gaming Entertainment (CGE), the company’s esports division, selected Grass Valley’s GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) to enable fully distributed, remote production for its major competitive gaming events EA […]
NAB, E.W. Scripps, IT consultancy Fincons Group and the News Literacy Project will demonstrate how local TV newsrooms can use NextGen TV’s dynamic, interactive capability to combat fake news. An eight-minute demo on April 21 during the virtual session will be followed by an interactive Q&A.
Exclusives
With virtual and hybrid events becoming the standard, the demand for the return of live events is growing. For broadcasters and production crews, this brings an array of delivery challenges […]
Toshiba Corp. rebuffed a takeover proposal from private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners, saying the proposal didn’t have enough detail to be considered and Toshiba preferred to remain a public company.
The FCC is seeking comment on whether it needs to update its rules limiting excessively loud commercials. That came in a request from the Media Bureau and following a letter to FCC acting chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel from Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), author of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act.
Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows, announces support for ad trigger insertion in its FUEL online video platform. The solution is being used by Cowles Broadcasting to enable Dynamic […]
Gray Television has just acquired a 127-acre piece of land that it plans to convert into a mixed-use “Studio City” property on the outskirts of Atlanta. The Doraville Downtown Development Authority voted to transfer the property where a General Motors Plant is to be converted into a mixed-use property that will feature 10 TV and movie studios, offices, retail spaces, apartments, townhomes and a hotel. Gray TV is expected to use some of the studios for its own productions, but it will also rent space to other studios. It is estimated that filming can begin taking place at these new studios in 2022.
Openings For VP-GM And IT Systems Engineer
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a vice president-general manager for Nexstar and a senior IT systems engineer at NBCU-owned WCAU-WWSI.
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — died April 16 at age 81.
Set-top maker Amino says it’s seeing wait times for semiconductor orders expand by as much as six months.
Vizrt, a global provider of software-defined visual storytelling solutions for media content creators, today debuted Vizrt Channel Branding. One of five software Solution Suites made available exclusively through Flexible Access, […]
Veritone Inc., creator of the aiWARE operating system for artificial intelligence, has extended its agreement with Audacy (formerly known as Entercom), a scaled, multiplatform audio content and entertainment company and radio station […]
Pandemic-impacted newsrooms are increasingly embracing tools that allow more content sharing and collaboration from the field and between stations with the cloud playing an ever-larger role in the remote workflows involved. Above, Bridget Naso, news anchor for KNSD San Diego, uses Dejero’s LivePlus Mobile app on an iPhone to broadcast live from home during the pandemic.
Chyron has released the Prime Live Platform, which it calls “a dynamic, scalable, full-featured production engine that bridges legacy workflows with the future of live content creation and distribution. As […]
Mo-Sys Engineering, a global provider of virtual production and image robotics, has named Tanner Woodward sales director, West Coast U.S. Arriving at Mo-Sys with extensive industry experience, Woodward joins from RED Digital Cinema, where he […]
Nagra, a worldwide provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, today announced that SITI Networks Ltd., an Essel Group Company and one of India’s largest multi-system operators, has selected […]
Telstra has appointed Kris Schaffer Canada country lead to drive accelerated growth out of the Toronto area. An IT and telecom professional, he has filled both leadership and customer-facing roles […]
EEG Video, a provider of closed captioning technology, has upgraded its popular Falcon Live Streaming RTMP Encoder. With the introduction of HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) output mode, Falcon now provides […]
Cinevideo SRL, a leading Italian provider of outside broadcasting (OB) production services, has chosen Riedel Communications solutions to provide seamless and reliable crew communications on board its brand-new UHD-12G OB […]
Rapid.Space has introduced its new flagship servers, the VPSBrute model, to its global network. This new range of servers is at the upper-end of Rapid.Space’s Hyperopen cloud products, and complements the […]
Telestream, a provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, today debuted Telestream Cloud Transform. A cloud-native service […]
Kubient, a cloud-based software platform for digital advertising, today named digital advertising industry veteran Leon Zemel as its new chief product officer. Most recently the senior vice president of programmatic […]
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) wants some answers from the FCC about enforcement of her CALM Act legislation that regulates the volume of TV commercials. In a letter to acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Eshoo was looking for satisfaction she suggested she did not get from the former Republican FCC.
