The recipients of TVNewsCheck’s annual Women in Technology Futurist Award — NBCUniversal’s Kelly Abcarian and Interra Systems’ Anupama Anantharaman — have been at the forefront of next-generation advertising currency and video conferencing, respectively. They’ll participate in a webinar on April 13 and receive their awards at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 26.

The company’s CEO and president, Jeff Rosica, writes an open letter of support for Ukraine.

Sharri Berg, president of Fox Weather, and Judy Parnall, head of standards and industry at the BBC, receive the highest honor in TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Awards for spearheading the launch of a major new streaming channel and driving media technology dramatically forward. They’ll participate in a webinar on April 13 and receive their awards at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 26.

As Russia is trying to cut off the flow of information in Ukraine by attacking its communications infrastructure, the British news outlet BBC is revisiting a broadcasting tactic popularized during World War II: shortwave radio. The BBC said this week that it would use radio frequencies that can travel for long distances and be accessible on portable radios to broadcast its World Service news in English for four hours a day in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and in parts of Russia.

New research from Sony shows that ATSC 3.0 offers a large variety of innovative usecases using multicast delivery. In addition to high bitrate television broadcasts to stationary televisions, ATSC 3.0 also supports multicast file delivery to the automotive industry since very robust physical layer parameters can be selected and therefore reliable high-speed reception is now possible.

Executives from Fox Corp., CBS Television Stations, Hearst and Vizrt told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week the ongoing transition to IP networking and public cloud technology is driving staffers in both engineering and IT to learn new skills.

Palm Springs welcomed back some 1,200-plus industry influencers for the annual Hollywood Professional Association Tech Retreat, with a “who’s who” of media and entertainment tech professionals gathering in person to discuss new advances and  networking with colleagues on the future of media and entertainment.

Among the seven announcements, Del Parks is upped to president of technology from EVP/chief technology officer.

The NAB Show appears to be making a slow comeback after two years off from the coronavirus pandemic. With about seven weeks until the opening of the 2022 NAB Show, the conference has about 20,000 registrations and 700 exhibitors lined up, well below the pre-pandemic numbers, even as the organization continues to process signups on both fronts. The show would not say whether the registration number included exhibitor personnel, press covering the show and other non-public attendees.

Those returning to Vegas for the 2022 NAB Show will find some big changes — some REALLY big changes. The biggest is the billion-dollar expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include a dozen openings in news, marketing, sales, engineering and digital.

High tech communications technology exports to Russia is one of the categories subject to controls under newly imposed U.S. sanctions due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. President Joe Biden announced the sanctions Thursday in a speech to the nation. The White House said the sanctions would impose “devastating costs” on Russia.

Graham Media Group President and CEO Emily Barr talks about her outlook for the upcoming convention.