Cobalt Digital today announced the promotion of Kyle Wilken to vice president of firmware. Wilken joined the company in 2013 as a senior FPGA engineer, and was previously promoted to embedded […]
Buffalo, N.Y.-based sports and entertainment company Pegula Sports & Entertainment (PSE) prides itself on building fan experiences for professional sports teams including the Buffalo Bills (NFL), Buffalo Sabres (NHL), Buffalo Bandits (NLL), and Rochester Americans (AHL). Live video has become […]
TV Jobs In News, Marketing, Sales, Engineering
This past week was a busy one on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center, as Cox, NBC, Gray and Insite Wireless posted ads for openings in sales, news, marketing and engineering in Chicago, San Diego, Columbia, Boston and New York, and one opening where you can live anywhere you want.
Vizrt, a global provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators has hired two executives. James Stellpflug becomes product director to refine focus on the company’s AMECS business and […]
Qligent has a new strategic partnership in Canada with MDL Communications, a technical consultancy and value-added reseller with offices in Toronto and Montreal. The agreement designates MDL as the exclusive […]
Exclusives
The company joins with Sinclair Broadcast Group and Harman International Industries to demonstrate next-generation TV broadcasting by combining ATSC 3.0-based broadcast network and SK Telecom’s 5G network.
Evertz, a global provider of media and entertainment technology solutions, announces the integration and official certification of Nielsen watermarking technology within its portfolio of file-based products, which includes both Mediator-X […]
Millions of citizens turned to TV3 E19: Special Elections broadcast on May 26 to learn the results from the 2019 European Parliamentary and municipal elections — and stayed tuned in […]
VuWall, a provider of video wall and AV network management, and TBC Consoles — a technical furniture designer, manufacturer and installer — are partnering to provide an “affordable and efficient […]
Blackbird, the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video platform Blackbird, announces that it has signed up 14 post-production facilities to its new Blackbird Productions Partnership Program (BP3) in the last five […]
Compliance monitoring solution providers look to take advantage of an “unprecedented” situation after Verizon announced plans to phase out its U.S. market-leading product.
“They put you in the best seat in the house,” said Drew Esocoff, who has directed NBC’s Triple Crown telecasts since 2011. “These cameras, whether they’re high-def or 4K, also allow for better manipulation of video: zooming in, zooming out without major degradation of the video quality. It just makes the viewing experience better and you’re also looking at it on high-def monitors. Compared to what you saw 25, 30 years ago, it’s night and day.”
HERE Technologies, a global provider of mapping and location platform services, signed a multi-year partnership agreement with Total Traffic & Weather Network (TTWN), a provider of traffic, weather, news and […]
BOXX Technologies, a provider of computer workstations, rendering systems and servers, today introduced the APEXX W4L workstation featuring new Intel Xeon W-3200 series processors. BOXX says it is among the […]
Densitron, a creator of HMI technologies and a global provider of display, monitor and embedded computing solutions, has joined nearly 2,000 worldwide adopters of the HDMI standard and is now […]
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) has chosen Amazon Web Services as its standard for cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. NASCAR will use AWS technologies […]
Stockholm-based Accedo has built and delivered Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV service on Amazon Fire TV. Magenta TV offers a rich live and VOD video experience, giving subscribers access to as many […]
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions, has expanded the capabilities of its LogServer IP-based logging, monitoring and analysis software to provide support for 8K HEVC (High Efficiency Video […]
GatesAir has delivered its 300th repack transmitter. Cornerstone Television’s WPCB Pittsburgh (DMA 24) took delivery of its new Maxiva ULXTE-50 liquid-cooled transmitter late last week. WPCB has been repacked from ch. 50 to 28, and will transmit at 31.7 kW from its new frequency beginning Aug. […]
Matrix Solutions, the developer of the Monarch global ad sales platform, today opened an office in Mexico City. The introduction of the new location signals Matrix’s official expansion into Latin […]
QSC today introduced software-based Dante for the Q-SYS ecosystem. As part of its strategic technology partnership with Audinate, Q-SYS feature licenses will enable native Dante networked audio integration without the […]
Mark Gederman appointed Global Head of Marketing for Vizrt’s new Global Sports business unit Vizrt, a provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators, has appointed Mark Gederman global […]
Audinate, developer of the professional AV industry Dante audio-over-IP networking solution, announced today that Aidan Williams, the company’s CTO and co-founder, will succeed Lee Ellison as CEO. Ellison informed the […]
Richard Friedel, who oversaw long-term technology strategy and day-to-day operations for the Fox Network Center and the Fox Technical Operations Center, will be in charge of all engineering, operations and technology functions for the station group.
It’s the first O&O station group to join coalition of commercial and public broadcasters, consumer electronics makers, tech companies and trade associations developing a voluntary advanced emergency messaging capability using ATSC 3.0.
The ATSC Next-Gen TV Conference in Washington this week covered a wide range of updates on what broadcasters have done, are doing and need to do to smoothly get the next-gen transmission standard on the air across the country.
William Montoya, audio team leader for KUED, Salt Lake City, Utah (DMA 30), was looking to improve the overall sound quality of the PBS station’s programs while increasing the studio’s […]
Stacked UHF and VHF antenna arrays for American Tower are designed to optimize repack coverage for stations in Dallas and Boston.
Riedel Communications today announced that David McKenzie has joined the company’s North American operation as manager of service and support. McKenzie will be responsible for the continued development of the […]
