Vizrt Group Appoints Klaus Holse As Chairperson

Vizrt Group, a global provider of software for live video production, has appointed Klaus Holse as new chairperson. With a background as CEO of SimCorp, corporate VP at Microsoft, and […]

Grass Valley And NEP Set Enterprise Pricing Deal

Grass Valley has signed a multi-year enterprise agreement with NEP Group, a technical production partner for producers of live productions and events. Grass Valley said the agreement “will strengthen NEP’s […]

Capitol Broadcasting’s Pete Sockett To Receive 2022 NAB Engineering Achievement Award For TV

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Haivision Systems Buying Aviwest

Haivision Systems Inc., a global provider of real-time video streaming and networking solutions, today announced an agreement to acquire Aviwest. With the addition of Aviwest, Haivision says it will have “a […]

NAB Announces Recipients Of 2022 Engineering Achievement Awards

Verizon, Bloomberg Ditch Satellite For 5G Broadcast Test

Verizon, Bloomberg Media, Zixi and Amazon Web Services are all teaming up to test broadcast news that skips satellite delivery in favor of 5G.

Exhibitors, Customers Eager To Get Back To Business At 2022 NAB Show

When the coronavirus pandemic hit two years ago, among the first business casualties of the worldwide shutdowns was trade shows. But as COVID-19 begins to retreat in most parts of the world in the first months of 2022, businesses are evaluating the safety of gathering together again with colleagues, with most determining that the risks are low enough to return to a sense of normalcy.

Is It Time to Get A TV Antenna?

How you can benefit from the return of old-school antennas and free over-the-air TV.

Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Joins Board Of EdgeQ

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Remote production paves road to future in broadcast workflows

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated profound changes in television production workflows that broadcasters had been inching toward for years. Virtualization, the cloud, remote desktops and other technologies are paving the way to what Mike Kralec, deputy CTO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, calls, “more dynamic operating models.” These are bringing new flexibility and efficiency to broadcast operations, according to a white paper from Teradici, Avid and Microsoft. Download it here. 

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New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewscheck’s Media Job Center include openings in news, weather, engineering, digital, and sales for stations owned by Nexstar, Hearst and Fox.

NEP’s Newest Mobile Unit, SRT3, Revs Up With 2022 NASCAR Season

NEP Group announced today that its U.S. Broadcast Services team has released a new mobile unit, SRT3, custom-built to support NASCAR’s Shared Resources. SRT3 provides a scalable solution to connect to both the […]

NAB Show: Aveco Celebrates 30 Years As Automation, Playout & Asset Management Supplier

Aveco, an independent automation provider, will display what 30 years of automation innovation can do for you, at the 2022 NAB Show (April 23-27 in Las Vegas) in booth N1421. […]

Talking TV: Avid Bows Out Of ’22’s Big Trade Shows

TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Jeff Rosica, CEO of Avid, about the company’s decision to sit out major trade shows including NAB and IBC this year and how such shows may look dramatically different on the other side of the pandemic.

Roku Mulls Building Its Own Smart TVs

Ateme To Showcase Sustainable Media Delivery Over 5G At MWC

Ateme, a provider of video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, will be attending MWC22 in Barcelona, where it will showcase its optimized and sustainable 5G […]

NAB Show: Chyron

At the 2022 NAB Show, Chyron will be presenting a soon-to-be-released platform that offers users a single, unified interface for graphics, switching, and illustrated replay. Designed for cloud deployment, this […]

NAB Show: Digital Nirvana Showcases AI-Driven Solutions For Content Creation

Digital Nirvana will demonstrate solutions that bring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to postproduction and compliance workflows at the 2022 NAB Show (April 23-27 in Las Vegas), the […]

RTV Noord Chooses Remote-Savvy Lawo Solution

RTV Noord, a 24/7 regional public broadcaster based in Groningen which serves the northern part of The Netherlands, has just commissioned its brand-new Lawo mc²36 audio console and A__stage64 audio-over-IP […]

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CEOs Beware: Ransomware Attacks On Broadcasters Hit ‘Ocean’s 11’ Sophistication

Broadcasters need an arsenal of ways to protect and mitigate against smarter ransomware attacks, particularly targeted against vulnerable CEOs as a “when,” not “if” predicament. These are the questions those CEOs should be asking.

NAB Show: Dejero To Showcase New EnGo 265 With Internet ‘GateWay Mode’ & Latest Cloud Integrations

Dejero will be showcasing its new EnGo 265 mobile transmitter at the 2022 NAB Show (April 23-27 in Las Vegas) in booth W3930 with built-in GateWay mode, as well as […]

The Vendors Powering NBC’s Winter Olympics

NBCUniversal is providing coverage of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing from Feb. 2 to 20, featuring a Winter Olympics-record 2,800-plus hours of coverage across NBC, Peacock, USA Network, CNBC, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. Here’s where all the tech necessary to deliver all that comes from.

Cinegy-Telstra Partnership To Expand Its Broadcast Services

Cinegy said today that its new customer, Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS), will be expanding its broadcast and playout service offerings based on the Cinegy platform. Cinegy is a provider of […]

IAB Tech Lab Unveils 2022 Product Road Map

Black Box Debuts KVXHP Series Quad Monitor KVM Extenders

Black Box, a provider of IT connectivity solutions, introduced its KVXHP Series Quad Monitor KVM extenders, which leverage DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport (MST) technology over Cat 5/6 or fiber to […]

StorCentric’s Retrospect Adds Anomaly Detection To Ransomware Protection

Retrospect, a StorCentric company, has released Retrospect Backup 18.5, featuring new anomaly detection, customizable filtering and thresholds, and enhanced ransomware protection to help businesses quickly detect and protect against malicious […]

Signiant Announces Integration With AWS’s Media2Cloud

Signiant Inc., a provider of intelligent file transfer software, says its cloud-native software as a solution (SaaS) products, Media Shuttle and Signiant Jet, are now integrated with Media2Cloud from Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]

RTBF, EVS To Co-Develop Flexible Control Room Solution

Following a public tender process, French-speaking Belgian Broadcaster RTBF has chosen to partner with EVS, a provider of live video technology, on the development of a new flexible control room solution designed […]

KXAS Keeps Basic Layout Of Old Set In New, More Streamlined Look

Super Bowl Streaming Averaged 50-60 Seconds Behind Cable

Viewers watching Super Bowl LVI via a streaming service experienced the action nearly one minute later than those watching via pay TV, according to data from Phenix, a developer of real-time streaming technology. In light of the fact that nearly half of all viewers were expected to watch the game over the internet, the data suggests that the latency was worse than what previous research has shown and the challenge facing streaming services when broadcasting live marquee sporting events that attract larger than normal audiences.