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Devlin Gets Promax Gold For Set Design, Again

Sony Acquires 45% Stake In Nevion

Roku Accounted For 30% Of All 1Q Connected TV Device Sales In U.S.

BRAND CONNECTIONS

Longtime Designer Jony Ive Leaving Apple

What’s Driving The Move To IP?

The broadcast industry is understandably focusing on the infrastructure of the future, which, without a doubt, will be based on IP. New facilities and remote production needs are among the top reasons for this IP boom.

ViewLift To Power Euro Basketball League OTT Launch

Today, ViewLift, a global streaming technology platform, announced its alliance with Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP) to power the first European basketball league to launch on Amazon Fire TV, IOS TV and […]

Barnfind Controls Transmission During China Summits

Barnfind Technologies was recently tapped to configure, construct and provide a transmission network at the One Belt and One Road International Cooperation Summit, which took place in Beijing April 25-27. The Summit, […]

Grass Valley, CenturyLink Demonstrate Remote Production Capabilities Over 100G High-Speed Link

Grass Valley joined forces with technology company CenturyLink to successfully run an ultra-high bandwidth test directly from cameras at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., to a remote production location […]

Avid Releases MediaCentral Platform Update

Avid says more powerful and intuitive user experience, greater agility in creating and distributing content from anywhere, and flexible cloud deployment options are among the enhancements in the new platform.

Vizio Co-Founder William Wang Talks To KTLA’s Frank Buckley

Pike Media Lab Adopts Grass Valley Software-Defined Playout

Pike Media Lab has transitioned to a software-only playout solution from Grass Valley. Central to the new playout capability is ICE SDC, which supports uncompressed 2022-6 video streams and enables the Russian media services […]

NEP Selects Lawo IP Routing, Processing, Multiviewers

NEP Group has released M15, the latest in NEP’s lineup of next-generation regional sports mobile units featuring an IP infrastructure based on Lawo solutions. This single-truck-unit was designed to streamline […]

Rep. Matsui Circulates C-Band Compromise Bill

As promised at a recent hearing, Rep. Doris Matsui, co-chair of the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, has released a discussion draft of a C-Band repurposing compromise bill, the Wireless Investment Now in 5G Act, that would have the FCC auctioning some or all of the (3700-4200 MHz) midband spectrum in its effort to free up more airwaves for next-gen wireless broadband.

MSG Networks Partners With Video Call Center

MSG Networks, a regional sports and entertainment network serving the largest media market in the United States, is using the Video Call Center’s (VCC) video-caller based platform to support the […]

Hadl To Succeed Faubell As Hearst Engineering VP

Stefan Hadl is tapped to succeed Martin Faubell who will retire next year. Hadl will oversee the Hearst stations’ engineering operations and staffs.

Netflix Testing Pop-Out Player For Multitasking

Netflix is testing a pop-out player so subscribers can watch content on the service while continuing to use other applications. The feature lets users pop out a screen that floats on top of other windows and applications. Users can resize the player by clicking and dragging. Right now, the feature doesn’t support subtitles.

Amazon Launches Its First Inexpensive Fire TV Televisions With Dolby Vision Support

OTT News Summit: Content, Tech, Rev Challenges

In case you missed it, TVNewsCheck’s inaugural event brought together streaming executives for all the major news organizations forging a presence on OTT. Get up to speed here.

TVN TECH

Cable Sizes Up ATSC 3.0 Challenges

The array of options for over-the-air 3.0 is dizzying. But with roughly 75% of TV households still subscribing to cable, satellite or telco services — and retransmission fees from providing their signals to such pay-TV operators making up a growing portion of broadcasters’ revenue — it’s clear that 3.0 needs to work with cable in order to be a long-term success.

Streaming Summit Returning To NAB Show New York

The Streaming Summit, a two-day event that focuses on the business and technology of OTT video, will once again join the NAB Show New York conference. The Streaming Summit is co-produced by […]

Dish TV Partners With Kaltura On OTT Platform

DTH company Dish TV India Ltd. has partnered with Kaltura, a video technology provider, for its OTT platform Watcho. Kaltura’s TV platform powers Watcho’s multiscreen access to linear, VOD and […]

Grass Valley Delivers Newsroom System For LATAM Broadcasters

Grass Valley’s all-in-one media production platform, GV Stratus, has been selected to deliver end-to-end newsroom capability by three major Latin American broadcasters: TV Bahia, TV Integração and TV Pajuçara. Having extensively used Grass […]

TVU Networks Partners With Stringr

The two will source custom live video within existing workflow. Access to Stringr’s network of more than 90,000 amateur and professional freelance videographers is now available through the TVU Global Grid.

Arkansas Broadcasters Assoc. Chartering SBE Chapter

The Arkansas Broadcasters Association announced today that the association will charter Arkansas’ first Society of Broadcast Engineers  chapter. “We are proud to take this step towards better serving our engineers […]

Comcast Launches Eye Control For The TV, An Aid For Physically Disabled Viewers

Evan Rullman Joins Bitcentral’s Fuel As National Sales VP

Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows in the U.S. and Latin America, has hired Evan Rullman as the vice president of national sales for Fuel, non-broadcast. Launched in August […]

TVN’S OTT NEWS SUMMIT

Navigating The Wild West Of OTT Measurement

With no common measurement data, OTT services are playing by multiple rule books, broadcast executives say at TVNewsCheck’s OTT News Summit.

GAB Accepting Engineering Award Nominations

TVN’S OTT NEWS SUMMIT

Big OTT Question: Whether To Build Or Buy

Panelists from a range of news organizations explain how they decided if they should build or buy the technology necessary to launch their streaming services.

More Tech Companies Join AWARN Alliance

The addition of Japanese companies expands the coalition’s international footprint.