Pa. State Senate Improves Accessibility For Hard-of-Hearing Constituents With ENCO enCaption

Pennsylvania’s Senate Video Facility provides citizens with government transparency through gavel-to-gavel television coverage of Senate sessions plus select committee meetings and public hearings. Wanting to enhance accessibility for hard-of-hearing individuals, the Senate chose the enCaption system from ENCO to provide automated closed captioning for […]

Lynx Technik Launches greenMachine Callisto+ Hardware With Dual-Channel Up/Down/Cross Converter Configuration

Lynx Technik, a provider of modular signal processing interfaces, has introduced its latest greenMachine general purpose hardware device, Callisto+. Callisto+ is 2x 3G capable and complements the existing greenMachine Titan hardware […]

Calrec Boosts Brio With Enhanced New Packages

Console maker Calrec is introducing enhanced versions of its popular Brio line with the Brio Duet and Brio Medley packages, which it says offer greater channel counts and expanded connectivity as standard, and at an even more […]

BRAND CONNECTIONS

Tracab Announces New Leadership

Tracab, a Chyron brand “focused on decoding and visualizing the complexities of sport,” has promoted David Eccles and Martin Brogren to co-general managers. Brogren, who has been dedicated to the […]

IBC Awards To Celebrate Industry Collaboration, Innovation

IBC has issued a call for entries for its IBC2021 Innovation Awards. This year’s awards program will focus on innovations underpinned by collaboration within the content and technology industry. The […]

TiVo leads Roku And Amino In MobiTV Auction With Baseline Bid Of $14.1M

Amino Outs Itself As MobiTV Bidder

Veritone Extends Search, AI Agreement With Audacy

Veritone, the creator of the aiWARE operating system for artificial intelligence, today announced that it has extended its agreement with Audacy, a scaled, multiplatform audio content and entertainment company. Formerly known as […]

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Job Openings Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, a creative services director, meteorologist, multimedia journalists, morning news anchor and master control operator/newscast director.

Bitmovin Launches Cloud-Agnostic Video Encoding Solution

Bitmovin, a provider of online streaming video technology, announced today Bitmovin Cloud Connect, a new offering that enables over-the-top (OTT) content providers working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web […]

Aug. 11 Is The Next National EAS Test

Aug. 11 will be the date of the first national EAS test since before the pandemic began. Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency officially informed the FCC on May 4, that it plans its sixth national EAS test on that day. They also plan to conduct a nationwide Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test concurrently.

NextGen TV Debuts On 6 Grand Rapids Stations

WOTV, WWMT, WOOD, WXMI, WXSP-CD and WOLP-CD are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

Imagine Introduces Economical, High-Availability Storage

Imagine Communications has further developed its industry-leading storage portfolio with the addition of Versio IOX Express NAS, providing broadcast and production facilities “with a high-availability shared storage solution that enables on-air […]

EVS Releases XtraMotion Cloud Service Following Trials With Fox Sports

EVS, a global provider of live video technology and new media productions, today released XtraMotion, an on-demand cloud-based service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to transform any video content into super […]

JW Player Acquires Vualto

JW Player, a video software and data insights platform, is acquiring Vualto, a provider of live and on-demand video streaming and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions. The acquisition, JW Player said, […]

Zero Density Launches U.S. East Coast Office

Virtual studio production tools provider Zero Density has launched the U.S. East Coast Office. Onur Can Gulenc, who had previously been business development manager, will lead it as territory manager. He […]

TVN’S NEW FACILITIES INSIDER

New Facilities Insider | Disney’s Digital Center 3 Centralizes Hardware, Allows Control From Anywhere

A first look at Disney’s new Digital Center 3 (DC3) in The Woodlands, Texas, a massive, 187,000-square-foot plant consolidating playout, transmission and media operations. (Sam Exley photo)

Corrivium Using Grass Valley Cloud-Based Platform To Turn On Virtual Event Productions

The Sydney, Australia-based global live event streaming expert, Corrivium, has chosen Grass Valley’s GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) to stream high-profile virtual events at broadcast quality. GV AMPP is being now used […]

Calrec Makes Immersive Mixing For Live Broadcast Easy

Calrec, a manufacturer of audio broadcast equipment, is offering a free educational training module for mixing live broadcasts in Dolby Atmos using the Calrec Brio console. The need to train people on how […]

TSG, Vislink Partner On ATSC 3.0 Network Upgrade For Alabama Public Television

Technical Services Group (TSG), a broadcast engineering and commercial AV solutions provider, has been awarded the contract to upgrade the statewide microwave distribution system for Alabama Public Television (APT) to support ATSC 3.0 transmission. Valued at approximately $2.8 […]

Harvard Taps JVC Connected Cams To Stream Live Sports Productions

With 42 sports teams, the athletic department at Harvard University has one of the largest programs in the country. From football, basketball, hockey and rubgy, to skiing, swimming and rowing, among others, […]

KOTV Enhances Weather Segments With FOR-A FVW-700 Telestrator

FOR-A Corporation of America today announced, Griffin Communications’ CBS affiliate KOTV Tulsa, Okla., has a new weapon in its tech arsenal for weather segments: a FVW-700 telestrator. No matter the forecast, the […]

Dielectric Names Dan Glavin Western Region Sales Manager

Dielectric has appointed Dan Glavin Western Region sales manager, succeeding Steven Moreen, who retires following a 52-year career in the broadcast industry. Glavin steps into the role immediately, with responsibility […]

NEP Releases Supershooter 5 4K-Capable Mobile Unit Servicing US Clients

NEP Group, a technical partner for content producers around the globe, says its U.S. Broadcast Services team has released a new mobile unit, NEP Supershooter 5. 1080p-ready and 4K-capable, Supershooter […]

Telestream Releases Latest Prism Monitoring Software With New Audio Tools

Telestream, a provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, unveiled the latest version of software for the […]

Avid, Dolby Collaborate On Pro Tools Dolby Atmos Production Course, Certification

Amazon And Best Buy Refresh Lineup Of Toshiba-Branded, Fire TV-Powered Smart TVs

OPEN MIKE BY PER LINDGREN

How To Solve IP’s Security Challenge

Media companies don’t need to compromise on security when leveraging IP technology, nor should security compromise speed, latency or efficiency.

Skating Cameraman Is First For Live TV Broadcast

Tech Vet Andy Hansen Joins BitFire Networks

BitFire Networks, an end-to-end live video transmission and production solution built by broadcasters for broadcast solutions, has hired Andy Hansen as executive vice president of business development. In this role, […]