Five Stations Launch NextGen TV In Fresno-Visalia

KGPE, KMPH, KSEE, KNSO and KFRE are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

TVU Networks’ Portable, IP-based Solutions Bring Breaking Coverage From Ukraine To Millions Of Viewers

TVU Networks, a provider of cloud and IP-based live streaming solutions, said today that its live IP-based video broadcast  transmitters, apps, and distribution platform were selected by China Global Television […]

Dejero Connectivity To Facilitate Live Stream Of 9,000 km Spinning Wheels Cycling Tour Across Canada

Dejero is supporting the Spinning Wheels Tour, “a cross-Canada Parkinson’s journey,” by providing connectivity and live video solutions that will enable three cyclists to live stream their adventures from any […]

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InfoComm 2022: VuWall Updates TRx Visualization & Video Wall Control Management Platform

VuWall, a provider of video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, will demonstrate version 3.2 updates to its award-winning TRx visualization and video wall management software in Booth N1569 […]

Shotoku UK Appoints Darren Webster Technical Director

Shotoku Broadcast Systems, an international manufacturer of robotic, manual and VR/AR tracking camera support systems, continues its global growth with the recruitment of Darren Webster as technical director in the U.K. […]

Cobalt Iron Patents Its Techniques for Optimizing Backup Infrastructure And Operations

Cobalt Iron Inc., a provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, has received a patent on its techniques for optimization of backup infrastructure and operations for health remediation. Granted on April […]

Speechmatics Partners With ENCO To Unlock Accurate Voice Captioning

Speechmatics, a speech recognition technology scaleup, says that ENCO, a global innovator of automated broadcast and AV production workflow solutions, has chosen its Autonomous Speech Recognition (ASR) technology for ENCO’s new enCaption5 automated captioning […]

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Boosted By COVID, NDI Gains Traction With Broadcasters And Vendors

NDI may have been built as a means of bringing video workflow to the masses, but broadcasters have embraced it to be a viable alternative to the ST 2110 uncompressed IP standard and as a more cost-effective way to add routing capacity to SDI plants.

Hiltron Introduces HSACU4 Control Unit for Mobile Satcom Antennas

Hiltron Communications, a global satellite system integrator, manufacturer and distributor, has a new addition to its product range. The HSACU4 is a compact antenna control unit for use with flyaway antennas. […]

Deutsche Telekom Picks Comcast Technology Solutions As Centralized Cloud Management Platform For Magenta TV

Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable that provides media and entertainment technology to content providers, operators, and advertisers, said that its Cloud TV Suite is being deployed as the new […]

‘Morning Joe’ Gets New Home Studio

Analyst: Roku-Netflix Deal is ‘Absurd’ And ‘Hard To Understand’

Rumors that Netflix might be interested in buying Roku boosted Roku’s stock on June 6 but produced mixed reactions from analysts.

Kara Swisher To Exit N.Y. Times Next Month For Vox Media

The technology writer and commentator will leave The New York Times, where she was a columnist and podcast host, next month as she plans to launch a new podcast with Vox Media. The new series will serve as a companion show to Pivot, the podcast Swisher hosts with Scott Galloway for Vox’s New York magazine.

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Making Digital Subchannels New Again

Diginets are proliferating, and new technology is bringing the costs of launching them down while integrating them more easily into existing workflows.

iWedia And Realtek launch NextGen TV Reference Platform

iWedia, a provider of software components and solutions for TV devices for major service operators and consumer electronics manufacturers, has partnered with Realtek, a global network and multimedia IC provider, to develop […]

Blackbird Paper Finds Cloud Native Technologies Drive Major Video Production Decarbonization

Blackbird plc, the technology licensor, developer and seller of the cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, today released its latest sustainability study — Decarbonizing Video Production — in collaboration with […]

Auton Clocks New Connected Car Achievements With ATSC 3.0 Standard

Pearl TV, a coalition of U.S. broadcasters transitioning to NextGen TV, today announced new field test data with Auton performed at the Motown 3.0 Open Test Track in Detroit that […]

Sony Ex-CEO Idei, Who Led Brand’s Global Growth, Dies

Nobuyuki Idei, who led Japan’s Sony from 1998 through 2005, died June 2 of liver failure. He was 84. Sony Chief Executive Kenichiro Yoshida said he and the company were indebted to Idei’s vision in preparing Sony for the Internet age.

Broadcasting Commission Of Jamaica Names Aldo Cugnini Digital TV Transition Adviser

The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica has chosen longtime broadcast television expert Aldo Cugnini of AGC Systems to provide advisory services in support of Jamaica’s transition from analog to digital broadcasting […]

NextGen TV: Why Stations Are Doing It

With ATSC 3.0 now reaching half of U.S. viewers, broadcasters are taking the necessary steps to bring over-the-air TV to its fullest potential.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an assignment manager, executive producer, news producer, news anchor, reporter, anchor-MMJs, a local sales manager and a broadcast engineer.

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Changing weather — and technology — create opportunities to produce more multimedia content

Rising numbers of severe weather events have bumped up consumer demand for news and information. Technology is responding with new solutions that make weather and climate storytelling easier than ever, while boosting the ability of teams to collaborate locally or across a station group. Moving weather workflows to the cloud opens up new opportunities for collaboration among stations in a group, while new solutions like Max Velocity and Max Alert Live make it easy to quickly produce richer content. Dive deep while watching a webinar on all this here. 

Michigan ATSC 3.0 Data Delivery Drive Offers Case For National Deployment

Alchemedia SG says it demonstrated that its Broadcast Services Core, integrated with other IP services, seamlessly transported IP data to a moving automobile traveling between four adjacent Michigan broadcast transmitters. […]

Five Stations Launch NextGen TV In Greenville, S.C.

WLOS, WSPA, WHNS, WYFF and WMYA are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

InfoComm: JVC Professional Video To Present New PTZ Cameras

JVC Professional Video will highlight its new KY-PZ510 Series PTZ cameras for the installation market at InfoComm 2022 (Booth N1875) in Las Vegas June 8-10. As the latest addition to JVC’s Connected Cam […]

Imagine Communications And Lutech SpA to Roll Out Rai Way ‘IP Matrix’ Project

Following a public tender, Rai Way, a leading Italian network infrastructure and services operator, selected Lutech SpA and its technology provider, Imagine Communications, to support the rollout of its new IP […]

NewTek Unveils CaptureCast, An NDI-Native, Fully Automated, Lecture Capture Solution

NewTek, a provider of IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, has introduced the latest addition to its portfolio: CaptureCast, what it calls “a ground-breaking multi-input, multi-room recording and […]

Planetcast Media Services To Showcase Cloud-First Media Services At Broadcast Asia 2022

Planetcast Media Services, a broadcast technology and media services provider, is primed to drive growth for content owners and distributors across APAC as it brings its expanded content management and […]

InfoComm: Vaddio To Debut EasyIP Audio Additions

Vaddio, a global provider of robotic PTZ cameras and camera control systems, recently expanded its AV-over-IP EasyIP ecosystem featuring Dante networked audio with three new audio solutions that will be […]

CP Communications And Red House Streaming Transform Florida Headquarters Into Native IP Production Center

CP Communications and its subsidiary Red House Streaming have gradually evolved their St. Petersburg, Fla., headquarters into a specialized broadcast and production center that produces and streams original programming worldwide […]