Amobee, a global provider of advertising technology that unifies TV, digital and social, is partnering with InfoSum, a global identity infrastructure provider, to bring alternative, privacy-compliant identity solutions to advertiser […]
The content protection, advanced advertising and video networking provider announced the first two in a series of services designed to allow video providers a more flexible, frictionless way to roll out and enhance new services while monitoring and capitalizing on consumer experience. Company executives also reported rapid growth in the video networking sector, a reaction to the media industry’s move from traditional delivery to OTT.
Blackbird plc, the developer and seller of the multi award-winning cloud-native video editing platform Blackbird, today launched a carbon awareness study titled “Video Shouldn’t Cost the Earth” developed in collaboration with […]
GB News, Britain’s latest news channel, will launch on Red Bee Media’s cloud-based software-only managed playout service. Red Bee will manage the playout of all GB News’ broadcasts, making sure […]
A new survey by NewscastStudio finds that 70% of respondents feel the broadcast industry is adapting technologically to change, while 45% feel the solutions available today are inadequate for their current workflows.
LiveU, a provider of live video streaming and remote production solutions, has bought its longstanding channel partner in the U.K. market, Garland Partners Ltd. LiveU has been working in the U.K. […]
While the Biden administration has been slow to appoint the key decisionmakers at agencies overseeing technology issues, a handful of people are on the inside track to lead them. By and large, these likely appointees do not have direct ties to Big Tech companies and have advocated for tougher measures against the industry. Many also previously served in the Obama administration and fall in the progressive camp.
TVN Newstoom Innovators | CBC Animates News With Graphics-Driven Stories
CBC News’ five-person animation team is using a graphics-driven approach to amplify some news stories with Adobe After Effects as a key tool. 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.
Tegna recently partnered with systems integrator BeckTV on the design, installation and integration of all systems for a new master control operation, the Tegna Stream Center. This new facility uses a cloud-based hub-and-spoke approach to serve all Tegna stations.
A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, Lou Ottens joined Philips in 1952 and was head of the Dutch company’s product development department when he began work on an alternative for existing tape recorders with their cumbersome large spools of tape. Later, he also helped develop the compact disc.
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Channel Assembly for its cloud-based personalization and monetization service, AWS Elemental MediaTailor. The new feature lets broadcasters and OTT channel operators quickly and easily create virtual […]
Telestream’s 10th acquisition creates a major presence in the global media and entertainment market’s content storage and management segment.
Red Bee Media is supporting French SVOD platform SALTO with ongoing content management services. SALTO is relying on Red Bee to deliver digital asset management (DAM), post-production for promotional material […]
AZA Group, which was founded by BlaCon Media and Full Circle Group, is a broadcast leadership executive pre-apprenticeship program that offers college-level and high school pre-apprenticeship courses toward an SBE […]
ATG Danmon has named Chris Nairn sales director. Reporting to Managing Director Russell Peirson-Hagger, he joins from Bang & Olufsen Pro AV where he was sales director, strategic enterprise partner […]
EditShare, a technology provider that specializes in collaboration, security and intelligent storage solutions, has named Joe Cozzolino, executive chair at TPX, to its board of directors, effective immediately. “EditShare customers […]
Networks, mobile truck companies and tech vendors agree the pandemic will impact HDR and UHD production through this year through a combination of equipment availability, complex new remote workflows and financial constraints.
TVU Networks, a market and technology provider of cloud and IP-based live video solutions, and China Unicom, the world’s fourth largest mobile service provider, are collaborating to expand the UHD […]
ENCO has shifted its business operations to a modernized office space in Novi, Mich., just 17 miles from the company’s longtime Southfield headquarters. The company says the newly constructed, 12,000-square-foot […]
Chris Lennon has joined Ross Video in the newly created position within the Office of the CTO, director, standards strategy. Lennon will be working for Ross CTO Troy English and […]
MediaKind, a global provider of media technology and services, worked with New Digital Technology on the delivery of high-quality recorded 4K content for BTV’s winter sporting events channel, which launched […]
Avid Shares Drop After 4Q Revenue Misses Estimates
Rohde & Schwarz, a global provider of TV and radio distribution and media technologies has promoted Jörg Fries to vice president broadcast, amplifier and media solutions. Fries has been with […]
As ad-tech companies consider AI alternatives to cookies and other third-party trackers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is releasing new guidelines and best practices for the use of machine learning at every level of digital advertising production.
The FCC has officially approved requests from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and ESPN to be exempt from audio description rules that are required of top national non-broadcast networks, based on the amount of non-live linear programming the networks offer per calendar quarter. However, there is an exception available for networks that don’t air at least 50 hours per quarter of primetime programming that is not live or near-live.
Cloud brings new possibilities to weather storytelling, workflows and TV operations
Meteorologists will soon be able to quickly and easily share their best work with colleagues at other stations in their group, thanks to a new solution, Max Cloud, from The Weather Company, an IBM Business. Company executives mapped out their journey to the cloud during a TVNewsCheck webinar.