PILOT Announces Winning Teams For 2023 Innovation Challenge

PILOT, the technology innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters, today announced Backlight, Hour One and TSV Analytics as the winners of the 2023 PILOT Innovation Challenge. The winners will […]

PILOT Initiative Tackles $2 Billion Problem For Broadcasters

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PILOT 2023 Innovation Challenge Applications Due Feb. 3

PILOT, NAB’s technology innovation initiative, is now accepting submissions for the PILOT Innovation Challenge through 5 p.m. ET on Feb. 3. The program will provide mentorship and promotion for winning proposals, along […]

Google News To Help Local Broadcasters Master First-Party Data, D2C

Pilot, the National Association of Broadcasters tech innovation arm, has tapped the Google News Initiative for a program to help broadcasters protect their advertising competitiveness by mastering use of first-party data and engagement within direct-to-consumer models.

Pilot Launches Broadcaster Direct-to-Consumer Audience Engagement Accelerator

Pilot, the innovation arm of the National Association of Broadcasters, is conducting a program with support of the Google News Initiative to improve direct-to-consumer audience engagement to better serve local […]

Pilot Announces Winning Teams For 2022 Innovation Challenge

Pilot, the technology innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters, today announced the three winners of the 2022 Pilot Innovation Challenge. Winners will receive relevant mentorship, feedback, travel support […]

Pilot Announces Winners Of Its 2021 Innovation Challenge

Pilot, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters, today announced two winners of the 2021 Pilot Innovation Challenge. Winners will receive relevant mentorship, feedback, travel support and exhibit […]

Pilot Accepting Innovation Challenge Proposals

This year’s challenge will fund teams to build a working prototype that expands and enhances remote television and radio operations and present it at next year’s NAB Show.

Verizon Media Joins NAB PILOT Coalition

The coalition of broadcasters and technology companies seeks to advance innovation in broadcast industry.

New Approach For PILOT’s Innovation Challenge

The NAB initiative will fund teams to build a working prototype and present at the 2020 NAB Show. Applicants must submit their proposal by Oct. 18.

Three Tech Companies Join NAB’s Pilot Iniative

PILOT To Offer Tech, Innovation Scholarships

PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters, has announced it will offer up to 10 scholarships of $5,000 each to current college sophomores, juniors, seniors entering graduate […]

Pilot Innovation Challenge Open For Submissions

Pilot, NAB’s technology innovation initiative, is accepting submissions for the third annual pilot Innovation Challenge. The program recognizes creative ideas that leverage technological advances in the production, distribution and display of […]

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On The NAB Exhibit Floor: Pilot

Pilot, an innovation initiative of the NAB, together with IBM and Frankly Inc., will demonstrate a proof of concept for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for local broadcaster video at the […]

PILOT Introduces Pitch Prize Competition

PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters, is launching the PILOT Pitch Prize, a competition for early-stage startup companies to receive seed funding and support for providing technology […]

NAB’s Pilot Highlighting Broadcast Innovation

The new Broadcast Innovation Stories campaign will feature 10 video profiles focusing on people in the broadcasting industry working on innovative technologies that provide programming and information to viewers and listeners in unique ways. 

Pilot, Local Media Association Set Video Summit

Pilot, NAB’s innovation initiative, in partnership with the Local Media Association (LMA), will host The Video Summit: A Forum for Video Business Solutions on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, at NAB headquarters in Washington. […]

NAB Joins GENIVI Showcase At Automobility LA

The NAB and the GENIVI Alliance, a collaborative community of automakers and their suppliers developing open software for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and the connected car, are collaborating on automotive radio technology. NAB […]

Pilot Reveals Innovation Challenge Winners

Pilot, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), announced the winners of its second annual PILOT Innovation Challenge yesterday, Nov. 12, at NAB Futures in Palo Alto, Calif. The Pilot Innovation Challenge recognizes […]

IBM Joins NAB’s PILOT Program

IBM has joined the National Association of Broadcasters’ (NAB) PILOT program. PILOT brings together innovative companies, educators and advocates with broadcasters to advance broadcast technologies and cultivate new media opportunities. PILOT consists […]

Pilot Sponsors Grady Mobile News Lab

NAB’s Pilot innovation initiative will sponsor the Mobile News Lab project at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication during fall 2017. The sponsorship will provide the lab with […]

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PILOT Announces Innovation Challenge

NAB Gets $200,000 From Knight Foundation

The money will be used to discover and fund broadcast news projects that serve local communities as part of the association’s Pilot Innovation Challenge.

Pilot Reveals Innovation Challenge Winners

Pilot, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), announced the winners of its first Pilot Innovation Challenge yesterday, October 31, at NAB Futures in Pebble Beach, California. The Pilot Innovation Challenge recognizes creative […]

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NAB’s PILOT Names Innovation Challenge Finalists

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IEEE Symposium To Feature Pilot’s John Clark

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Clark’s Quest: Find Next Best Broadcast Tech

As head of NAB’s Pilot program, John Clark is using his background in technology, new media and education to root out people and companies that may have some benefit for broadcasting as it attempts to reinvent itself for the digital age. His mantra: “What are things that we can do that serve our local communities, but at the same time continue to make us have great, growing and viable businesses?”

NAB Offers $20K For Next Big Broadcast Idea

Through its Pilot program, the NAB says it will award $20,000 to the person or persons who come up with the best business idea for how radio and TV broadcasters “can engage their communities with next generation content on any device, whether big, small or moving?” Runners up get $15,000 and $10,000.

Lakana The Latest To Join NAB’s Pilot

NAB’s coalition of leading broadcast/technology organizations adds the digital publishing and content management company as its newest charter member.

NAB’s Pilot Invests In Haystack TV News App

The TV news app aggregates and curates videos from a wide variety of sources and also provides a continuous and personalized headline news channel for consumers. The videos can be viewed on mobile devices, as well as on connected TVs.

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New NAB Pilot Chief Has Passion For Innovation

NAB Creates Pilot To Foster Tech Innovation

NAB Labs is evolving into Pilot, a coalition of media industry stakeholders with the goal of advancing broadcast technology and broadcaster innovation. It will be led by John Clark, formerly of the Reese News Lab at the University of North Carolina.

ABC OKs Rhimes Pilot On Crisis Management