Radio Frequency Systems equipment is being installed to deliver an ATSC 3.0 signal over the complete metropolitan New York area by the end of this year.

Kylee Peña, manager for creative technologies program management at Netflix (above right), and Diane Strutner, CEO and co-founder of Datazoom, share a common drive and devotion recognized as this year’s TVNewsCheck Women in Technology Women to Watch winners.

Pearl TV, a coalition of U.S broadcasting companies making the transition to NextGenTV, said it launched Run3TV, a web platform that brings interactivity and other streaming content to over the air viewers.

Five of Omaha, Neb.’s television stations today began broadcasting with NextGen TV, also known as ATSC 3.0. Switching on the new transmission standard are Hearst Television’s KETV (ABC), E.W. Scripps’ […]

Kelly Abcarian, EVP of measurement and impact at NBCUniversal and one of this year’s TVNewsCheck Women in Technology Futurist Award winners, sees measurement as a “team sport” that will be “all about collaboration” that her work is helping to realize.

Anupama Anantharaman, VP of product management at Interra Systems and one of this year’s winners of TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Futurist Award, is working on the cutting edge of streaming monitoring solutions. Above: Anantharaman with a 2019 Best of Show award for Interra System’s Orion product at the NAB Show.

Sharri Berg, president of Fox Weather, COO of news and operations for Fox Television Stations and one of this year’s TVNewsCheck Women in Technology Leadership Award winners, has been piecing together emerging technology and talented personnel throughout her 34 years at the company. Along the way, she’s built her own reputation as an irrepressible innovator, a generous mentor and a prescient trendspotter in TV technology. Above: Sharri Berg at 2 minutes and 3 seconds before the launch of Fox Weather on Oct. 25, 2021.

Judy Parnall, BBC’s R&D head of standards and one of this year’s recipients of TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Leadership Award, has carved out a reputation as a leader always thinking several steps ahead, who engenders trust in colleagues and never fails to see the audience perspective in the technology and standards she helps develop.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an engineering director, a sales director, two local sales managers, an executive producer, a morning anchor and an anchor/reporter.

While several spring football leagues have popped up in recent years, none have come close to packing the production-technology punch that is expected in USFL broadcasts. All games will be produced in 1080p HDR with many up-converted to 4K. Regardless of the quality of play on the field, one thing is for sure: the broadcast will look unlike any football game you’ve watched before. Above: Eight cameras have been mounted inside the stadium in Birmingham, Ala., to serve the optical tracking system that automatically measures first downs.

TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Aimee Rinehart and Ernest Kung of the Associated Press about a new report gauging how widely — or not — artificial intelligence and automation are being implemented in newsrooms, how sophisticated its functionalities are becoming and what that means for jobs. Learn more about AP’s report and a free online course series on news and AI here.

The pilot program will deliver local content, advertising and data files to the rapidly growing electric vehicle charging station market, displaying a critical commercial use case for NextGen broadcasting.

With attendance predicted at around 60,000 with nearly 1,000 vendors, the NAB Show in Las Vegas next week will likely be down from its pre-pandemic numbers. However, vendors say that a more focused, less congested show might not be a bad thing.