Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows for broadcast and digital video, has appointed Grenville Gooder as senior vice president, sales. He brings considerable experience to the role, boasting more […]
Executives from Sinclair, Cox and Graham Media will explore the unique threats — and defenses — the media and entertainment industries manage around ransomware attacks in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat on Oct. 18. Register here.
The FCC said that over one million subs in the path of Hurricane Fiona — in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — are without cable or wireline phone, TV or internet service. About 7% of cell cites were out of service in the affected areas, but the FCC pointed out that does not necessarily equate to outages since wireless networks are designed often with numerous overlapping sites to help provide continuity of service. Plus, wireless companies often use temporary, including mobile, sites or initiate roaming agreements. By contrast, no TV or radio stations reported being out of service.
Executives from Tegna, Sinclair, CBS Television Stations and Vizrt will look at how cloud workflows are transforming their operations in a panel discussion at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future event at the NAB New York Show on Oct. 19. Register here.
The cable operator says it will grow its network sustainability by cutting electricity per terabyte of data in half by 2030.
Exclusives
Hearst Television’s senior vice president of technology and information services,Alvin R. Lustgarten will retire next summer. Lustgarten has served in his current role since 2020. He’s worked more than three decades with Hearst Television — and more than four decades in various roles within Hearst Corp.
Nugen Audio has released its new Halo Vision plug-in. Designed for 3D, surround and immersive audio workflows, Halo Vision is a customizable, real-time visual analysis suite operating in up to […]
Game Creek Video, a long-standing customer of Sony Electronics, has selected 10 of the company’s shallow depth of field HDC-F5500 system cameras with Super 35mm 4K CMOS global shutter image sensor and […]
Planar, a global provider of visualization technology, has launched the Planar Venue Pro VX Series, a family of indoor fine pixel pitch LED video wall displays delivering in-camera visual performance […]
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will be one of the largest sporting events ever seen and is sure to deliver many of the game’s most exciting moments. To bring the […]
At IBC, Returning To A New Normal
In Amsterdam this week, there was plenty of talk about broadcasters’ ongoing transition to IP and the cloud, along with the supply chain issues and labor shortages hampering it, but most people were too grateful to see old friends, colleagues and clients to complain.
Cinedigm Corp., a streaming technology and entertainment company serving enthusiast fan bases, announced a new deal with American college sports, news and entertainment streamer, Vidgo. Vidgo becomes the first virtual MVPD […]
Blackmagic Design says that popular director and visual effects (VFX) artist Clinton Jones, known by his YouTube channel name Pwnisher, has switched his post-production workflow to DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, […]
Cobalt Digital, designer and manufacturer of edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGear initiative, has received a Superior Technology Award from Smart […]
Harmonic today announced that Andrii Vladyka, technical product manager for the company’s broadband business, will be honored with the 2022 SCTE Wilt J. Hildenbrand Jr. Award. Vladyka is receiving the […]
The fully remote production launches tonight with a new mobile fleet of 16 that’s producing the games in 1080p with High Dynamic Range with around 250 people onsite for each TNF game. (Courtesy of Prime Video)
NAB Show New York is introducing the Cine Live Lab, a new destination on the show floor featuring daily, hands-on demonstrations of the latest tools and techniques in cinematic storytelling and […]
This Thursday, WRAL will announce a partnership with Eon Media, a Toronto-based tech company focused on artificial-intelligence video streaming solutions, that will generate boundless access to the station’s archives. The vast cache of now metadata-encoded video — amounting to half a million hours’ worth of content, according to Accarrino — will soon be made easily available to not only the WRAL newsroom, but also the general public.
Staff in the field need to be able to work as effectively as in the newsroom, so finding the right tools to work faster and more collaboratively becomes crucial.
WBKI, WDRB, WAVE, WHAS and WBNA are available now in ATSC 3.0. They will be joined by WKMJ next week.
Blackmagic Design has rolled out four new models of its Ultimatte 12 real time compositing processors that are all designed for creating the next generation of broadcast graphics. Also announced […]
IAB Tech Lab, the global digital advertising technical standards-setting body, today announced key promotions of Shailley Singh, executive vice president, product, and chief operating officer, and Jill Wittkopp, vice president, […]
Ateliere Creative Technologies, a developer of media supply chain solutions, has taken home the Best of Show Award at IBC 2022 for Ateliere Connect capabilities that let content owners, broadcasters, sports organizations […]
Pixellot, a global provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, is offering live streaming functionality on all its mobile Pixellot Air cameras. In addition to capturing and tracking games and practices, all […]
Harmonic says that DirecTV GO, a Vrio company, is streaming more than 100 linear channels with Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud SaaS platform. The Harmonic SaaS platform is deployed by leading providers […]
Telemetrics, a provider of robotic camera control, has developed a wireless video transmission and battery system for its OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform that it says “allows users to freely move the […]
Brainstorm, a manufacturer of real-time 3D graphics, XR/VR/AR and virtual studio solutions, is displaying EdisonGO, “a straightforward, simple-to-use smartphone application that seeks to revolutionize camera tracking in non-professional environments,” at […]
Grass Valley, a provider of solutions for live productions, is displaying new product introductions across all areas of the company’s portfolio at IBC 2022 (RAI, Amsterdam, Sept. 9-12, Hall 9). […]
