Maxon Expanding Global Workforce With New Waterloo Office

Maxon, the developers of professional 3D modeling, animation, rendering and motion design software solutions, have announced it is opening a new office in Waterloo, Canada, later in the year. Marking its […]

Tata Communications Closes On Purchase Of The Switch Enterprises

Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, has completed the $58.8 million cash acquisition of The Switch Enterprises through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V. Tata said: “With the close […]

Ai-Media Unveils AI-driven LEXI 3.0 For Live Automatic Captioning

Ai-Media, a global provider of professional captioning solutions, has launched LEXI 3.0, the new and improved version of its flagship live automatic captioning solution. The company says that “independent audits […]

BRAND CONNECTIONS

LiveU Expands Its Presence In France

LiveU, an IP-video company, has strengthened its presence in France with an expanded team around the country, including sales, marketing, customer support and R&D. The company has seen growing demand […]

USSI Global Expands Florida Campus With Fourth Building

USSI Global, a turnkey provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services worldwide, has expanded its Melbourne, Fla., campus with a fourth building. With the new space, which […]

IBC Launches 2023 Innovation & Social Impact Awards Programs, Nominations

IBC is preparing to honor the highest achievements in innovation and social impact with the launch of its IBC 2023 Awards. Nominations are now open for the free-to-enter IBC Innovation Awards and Social Impact […]

TVN TECH

Broadcasters Put New Demands On Their Cameras

Broadcasters’ demands on cameras are increasing, from asking for IP readiness to standards flexibility and better control in multicamera environments. Vendors are answering the call. Pictured: Sony’s CNA-2 camera control network adapter.

Vizrt Integrates With Adobe Premiere Pro For Faster Asset Search And Simplified Production Process

Vizrt, a provider of real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators, has aligned its suite of products with Adobe Premiere Pro “to better coordinate an efficient production pipeline.” […]

Gray Television Stations Set To Launch Generative-AI Video With Waymark

Gray is rolling out Waymark’s tech across all its stations, letting them create video ads in five minutes or less.

Sinclair: FCC NextGen TV Task Force Will Strategize ATSC 1.0 Shutdown

Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO Chris Ripley and COO Rob Weisbordon on Wednesday said a task force currently being developed by federal regulators and key industry stakeholders will chart a course for the eventual shutdown of broadcast signals using the ATSC 1.0 standard.

Comcast Blocks The Channels DVR Service From Recording NBC, Bravo, USA, MSNBC, CNBC & More

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, director of engineering, managing editor/director of Now, manager of business operations and multimedia journalist.

Man Climbs KTLA Tower, Wants To ‘Free Billie Eilish’

Programming Everywhere: The Complete Videos

See full videos from all the sessions at TVNewsCheck’s inaugural Programming Everywhere event at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, including panels on syndication’s changing business model, fresh approaches to news content, the future of sports on broadcast TV and where FAST channels are directing the evolution of broadcasting. This content, which previously was limited to TVN premium members, is now available to all.

Matrox Video Debuts LUMA Graphics Cards

Video technology provider Matrox Video today launched its new Matrox LUMA series of graphics cards with Intel Arc GPUs. The series consists of three single-slot cards: the LUMA A310, a low-profile fanless […]

MPTS: Broadcast Solutions Showcasing Breadth Of Capabilities

Broadcast Solutions, one of Europe’s larger media systems integration groups, is returning to the Media Production & Technology Show (May 10-11, Olympia London, Stand C57) with a fresh exhibit showcasing […]

MPTS: LiveU To Demo Additions To Its Enhanced IP Ecosystem

LiveU is returning to the Media Production & Technology Show (May 10-11, Olympia London, Stand D30) as it continues to expand its IP contribution, production and distribution ecosystem. LiveU says […]

Custom Consoles Module-R Desk Chosen For London Production Studio

Custom Consoles has completed a Module-R studio control desk for a new video production facility at the U.K. city-center premises of a major international financial services company. It will be […]

SMPTE Rapid Industry Solutions For On-Set Virtual Production Publishes Camera & Lens Metadata Project For Public Comment

SMPTE, the global society for media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has released its Rapid Industry Solutions (RIS) On-Set Virtual Production Camera and Lens Metadata project. The RIS On-Set Virtual Production […]

Ateliere Leadership Appointments Enable Seamless Customer Cloud Transition

Ateliere Creative Technologies, a cloud-native content supply chain and distribution platform, continues on its mission to help the industry transition to a next-generation media supply chain in the cloud with […]

Ateme Joins Google Cloud Marketplace

Ateme, a global provider of video compression, delivery and streaming solutions, announced today that its video processing and delivery products can now be purchased on Google Cloud Marketplace. The integration of […]

Qvest Extends Portfolio With Acquisition Of HYVE

The Qvest Group is broadening its range of services through the acquisition of HYVE AG. With this strategic step, Qvest said it “strengthens in particular its expertise in digital solutions, […]

PROGRAMMING EVERYWHERE 2023

News Organizations Find ‘Pure Gold’ In Their Archives

Executives from The Weather Channel, Fox News and Capitol Broadcasting have rolled up their sleeves and dived into their organizations’ deep and messy archives. They told a panel at last week’s Programming Everywhere event that doing so has yielded untold — and very monetizable — treasures. Pictured (l-r): Nora Zimmett, The Weather Channel; Sam Peterson, Bitcentral; Jon Accarrino, Capitol Broadcasting; and Ben Ramos, Fox Archive. (Alyssa Wesley photo)

Boris FX Releases Advanced Paint, Rotoscoping, Motion Tracking Tools

The new Silhouette and Mocha Pro releases from Boris FX offer features to artists working on VFX-heavy films and streaming/broadcast projects. The Oscar- and Emmy-winning tools are now available as a plugin to popular […]

Kelly Fox Joins Advanced Systems Group As Strategic Account Executive

Advanced Systems Group, a technology and services provider for media creatives and content owners, announced that Kelly Fox has joined as a strategic account executive. In her new role, Fox will focus […]

NewsNation, WPIX New York Christen New Facility In Manhattan

NewsNation and WPIX New York, both part of Nexstar Media Group, unveiled two new studios on Tuesday at The Daily News Building on 42nd Street in New York, where the network and station both operate from. NewsNation expanded to 24 hours, Monday through Friday, on April 24, and WPIX marks 75 years on the air this year.

TVN Webinar: Making Gains In 5G & Television Production

Executives from Fox Sports, BBC and Sinclair Inc. will unpack the pace of the 5G rollout and its application in news and sports production in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar at 1 p.m. ET on May 18. Register here.

Grass Valley Expands Its Alliance Partners Community

Grass Valley today announced the expansion of its Alliance Partners community “to deliver solutions that meet the evolving needs of the media and entertainment industry. Leveraging the Agile Media Processing […]

Openview, South Africa’s First Satellite Free-to-Air Service, Using Nagra Security Solutions

Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and an independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, today announced that Openview, South Africa’s largest independent and free-to-air television service with over 3 million […]

Perfect Memory Integrates Movielabs’ Ontology For Media Creation For Improved Asset Management

Perfect Memory, a content asset management solutions provider whose clients include some of the biggest names in media, announced the native integration of MovieLabs‘ OMC (Ontology for Media Creation) into its […]