CBS News will broadcast its multiplatform election night coverage from a newly built set in the Viacom CBS headquarters in New York’s Times Square, featuring advanced augmented-reality-style graphics and visual displays showing the latest data, polling and mapping. Anchoring from the studio will be Norah O’Donnell, Gayle King, Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson and Ed O’Keefe.
Jessell | Electronic Media At 100: Honoring The Architects
KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh had its inaugural broadcast 100 years ago today, catalyzing radio’s shift from hobby to mass medium and ushering in the other electronic media that followed. Driving the evolution forward were inventors, engineers, investors, entrepreneurs and business executives who’ve deservedly carved out a place in history.
ATSC 3.0, the new broadcast signaling standard branded as NextGen TV, is starting to break away from the TV screen and gain its first foothold on the smartphone. One Media 3.0, a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said it has taken possession of its first handful of Android smartphones with embedded ATSC 3.0 antennas. This initial batch of devices — branded as the Mark One, and unlocked to run on the T-Mobile and AT&T mobile networks — are not production-grade products but are instead considered evaluation units tagged for trials and tests.
ATEN Technology, the global manufacturer of KVM and Pro AV connectivity solutions, today launched the UC9040 StreamLIVE PRO, an all-in-one multichannel AV mixer. The solution, a more advanced version of its forerunner, the UC9020, lets users capture, stream […]
PrimeTime Lighting has debuted its new MSLED 5-S broadcast studio LED luminaire. The MSLED 5-S is the smallest of PrimeTime’s commercial LED lights. The MSLED 5-S can be used both in commercial […]
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He joins the Detroit NBC affiliate from WCAU Philadelphia to succeed Marcus Williams who’s retiring at the end of the year.
Avid Technology 3Q Results Beat Wall Street Expectations
BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) _ Avid Technology Inc. (AVID) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $8 million. On a per-share basis, the Burlington, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of […]
Dalet, a provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, announced that France Télévisions has subscribed to Dalet Galaxy xCloud to enable critical news workflows from home when […]
TVU Networks, a provider of cloud and IP-based live video solutions, this summer helped KMBC, the Hearst Television ABC affiliate in Kansas City, Mo., overcome the technical challenges associated with […]
Bitmovin, a provider of online video technology, has integrated Dolby Atmos, the next generation of surround sound technology, to its Bitmovin Video Encoding, making it “the first and only platform […]
MediaKind, a global provider of media technology and services, has launched the CE Mini, a high performance, rapidly deployable, single-channel contribution encoder. CE Mini addresses the demands of live content […]
ATEME, a provider of video delivery infrastructure for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT today joined the Media Technology Partner program of Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering […]
Cobalt Iron Inc., a provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced “Modernize Backup With One Solution for VTL and Enterprise Data,” a migration program offering significant savings for enterprise […]
Utah Scientific, a provider of equipment for content creators, distributors and broadcasters, today announced the retirement of George Wicker after a career in the broadcast industry spanning 30-plus years. Wicker […]
Broadcasters have largely steered away from enabling audience commenting on their digital platforms, but emerging AI moderation tools and a business case for fostering engagement via comments may prompt some to reassess.
Sony’s 3Q Profits Rise As Pandemic Has People Playing Games
Tokyo-based Sony reported a 459.6 billion yen ($4.4 billion) profit in July-September, up from 188 billion yen the previous year. Quarterly sales at the maker of the PlayStation game machines, Bravia TVs and Spider-Man movies inched down slightly to 2.1 trillion yen ($20 billion).
Sports Must Move From Satellite To IP
U.S. sports broadcasters are primed and ready to migrate from satellite to IP signal delivery to reach their audiences with some like Fox already going there. Vendors and content providers need to closely collaborate as the transition happens with renewed focus on reliable transmission and content protection.
For many in the broadcast industry, media asset management, storage and archiving has tended to be a rather mundane fact of life — a routine part of the workflow that […]
Boris FX Continuum 2021, the major new update to the post-production industry’s most storied plugin collection, delivers its largest release ever. Continuum 2021 pays homage to the bygone era of […]
Broadcasters participating in the Phoenix Model Market launch of NextGen TV service have added a single frequency network, a move designed to give enhanced reception for viewers and broaden the […]
TV2025: The Story In Videos
Here are the complete videos of TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future conference, featuring a keynote interview with CBS Corp.’s top researcher Radha Subramanyam, the CEOs of E.W. Scripps, Sinclair, Graham Media and Allen Media and a Station Group of the Year interview with NBCU Stations’ chief Valari Staab.
Red Bee Media and Dotscreen were instrumental in the launch of TV5MONDEplus, a new global video-on-demand platform with free French speaking series, films and documentaries in full HD quality, subtitled in […]
Quickstream, a provider of software-defined, cloud-based solutions for live video, today announced the release of its Quickstream Cloud product, what it calls the first one-click video cloud exchange for the […]
Media organizations and enterprises need to meet the increasing demand for exciting live content experiences while also driving efficiencies through remote production, distributed workflows and flexible delivery networks. Net Insight‘s […]
NBCLX, the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations streaming news service aimed at Gen Z, will be offering election night coverage on its over-the-top, linear, digital, mobile and cable platforms. Coverage starts at 8 p.m. ET with storytellers embedded in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington.
The FCC has adopted an order to expand access of broadcast TV programming to blind or visually impaired. In April, the FCC voted unanimously — and unopposed by industry, said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai — to propose to require 40 more TV markets (DMAs 61-100) to provide audio descriptions of video programming but also wants to know if the current pandemic changes any part of the equation.
At Tuesday’s public meeting Tuesday (Oct. 27), the commission made that expansion official.
