ATEME To Power Encoding For Nuuday’s Live And File Platforms

Nuuday, a Danish company providing TV and VoD services as part of the TDC Group, has adopted ATEME’s Titan range of video delivery solutions to enhance the experience it offers […]

Myers And France 24 Set Distribution Partnership

Myers, a provider of broadcast management solutions, has set a new distribution partnership with France 24 that will make the International news channel’s programming information and associated metadata available through […]

WSB Aired First 10 Minutes Of Previous Sunday’s ‘World News Tonight’ Instead Of Live Edition

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Station groups can capitalize on shifts in the mobile advertising landscape by building in a subscription revenue stream, according to executives from The Weather Company, who will appear on a TVNewsCheck webinar on April 27 at 3 p.m. ET. The event will examine how the Max Mobile white label app that many broadcasters offer their followers can use artificial intelligence to invite, at just the right time based on user behavior, an upgrade to premium. Join us by registering here.

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Openings In News And Engineering

New jobs post to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, a news digital content manager, and a systems engineer.

LiveU Invests In Canadian Market With New Hire

LiveU has hired industry veteran, Mark Moore to grow the broadcast, sports and channel business and expand LiveU’s customer base as country manager for Canada. Under Moore’s leadership, LiveU expects […]

Intigral And NPAW Team On Upgraded OTT S In MENA

NPAW (Nice People At Work), a video intelligence company providing a video analytics solution, has renewed its partnership with Intigral, a media and entertainment provider in the Middle East and […]

Brainstorm Part of 5GMediaHUB Project

Brainstorm, a manufacturer of real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio solutions, is participating in the 5GMediaHUB project, which aims to accelerate the testing and validation of media applications with 5G technology. […]

Extreme Reach Recognized With TAG Certified Against Fraud Seal

Extreme Reach (ER), the asset management solution for TV and video ads, has been awarded the TAG Certified Against Fraud Seal by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). The certification recognizes […]

Bitcentral Enhances Central Control And Create

Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows in the U.S. and Latin America, has introduced new versions of Central Control, its comprehensive and fully integrated master control and automation software, […]

Telos Alliance Launches Telos Infinity VIP Virtual Intercom Platform

Telos Alliance, a global provider of broadcast audio, has launched Telos Infinity VIP Virtual Intercom Platform.  It says the new platform “delivers sophisticated comms virtually, making cloud-based media production workflows […]

NextGen TV Debuts On Five Buffalo Stations

WKBW, WGRZ, WUTV, WIVB and WNYO are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

WAPT Knocked Off Air By Lightning For Two Hours

Fox Puts Ad Sales Management System In Cloud With Operative

Fox Corp. said it is using technology company Operative Media’s cloud-based system to manage its ad sales portfolio. Operative’s AOS system gives Fox visibility across its portfolio of linear, digital and advanced audiences in a converged platform. The move will accelerate Fox’s advanced advertising capabilities including near-real-time ad creative substitution, automated rate cards and optimization.

FCC Opens 3.45 GHz Band For 5G Flexibility

The FCC has voted unanimously on how to open up a swath of high-value midband spectrum in the 3.45 GHz band — currently used by DOD for key radar applications — for commercial wireless broadband (5G) and, separately, approved proposed application and bidding processes for the auction (auction 110) of that 100 MHz. It is seeking comment on those auction processes.

Riedel’s Bolero Provides Wireless Comms In France

Riedel Communications’ Bolero wireless intercom is providing flexible, reliable and high-quality crew communications at the Opéra de Lille, a neoclassical opera house in Lille, France. Built between 1907 and 1913 […]

Amino Accelerates Android TV Momentum In North America

Amino, a global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, is making advanced TV a reality through enabling operators to deliver integrated live TV, VoD and OTT platforms. AW Broadband, Conway, […]

PlayBox Neo Announces Support For Octopus Newsroom

PlayBox Neo today introduced an expansion to the software connectivity of its ProductionAirBox Neo-20 broadcast playout server, with support now provided for the Octopus Newsroom computer system. “The Octopus NRCS offers a strong feature […]

Telestream Intros High-End Lightspeed G8 Media Server

Telestream, a provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, has debuted what it calls “a quantum progression […]

Bitcentral Enhances Its Central Control And Create Solutions

Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows in the U.S. and Latin America, has released updated versions of Central Control, its comprehensive and fully integrated master control and automation software, […]

Hego Names A Head of Performance Analysis For Latin America

Hego, a ChyronHego brand specializing in live production services, has expanded its operations with the appointment of Diego Martínez del Campo as head of performance analysis for Latin America. Leveraging […]

LiveU And Blackbird Team For End-To-End Live And VOD Production

LiveU, a provider of live video streaming and remote production solutions, has teamed up with Blackbird plc), the developer and seller of the cloud-native video editing and publishing platform, Blackbird, to […]

Shotoku Adds Clockwise And Counterclockwise Functionality To SmartPed Pedestal

Shotoku, a provider of manual and robotic camera support and virtual reality tracking, has introduced unique new functionality — Orbit — to SmartPed, its fully robotic XY pedestal. SmartPed, which addresses […]

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TVN Tech | Many COVID Changes Likely To Become Permanent For TV Sports

Executives from Fox Sports and CBS Sports are among those predicting a sports production future with dramatically reduced onsite staff, greater operational efficiencies and cost savings, though with a fallout of job losses for mobile production personnel.

Tightrope Offers Online And OTT Channel Publishing With Cablecast VIO Stream

Tightrope Media Systems has unveiled Cablecast VIO Stream, a full-featured, automated solution for bringing live event streams and on-demand video to the web, social media, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Extending the “add once, publish everywhere” efficiency of Tightrope’s Cablecast broadcast automation solution to organizations that don’t […]

Canon Launches Line Of 4K UHD PTZ Cameras

Canon USA, a provider of digital imaging solutions, unveiled the company’s first line of 4K UHD PTZ cameras — the CR-N500 and CR-N300 for indoor live-streaming and the outdoor CR-X500. […]

Amobee, Infosum Partner To Power Alternative Identity Solutions For Advertisers, Media Owners

Amobee, a global provider of advertising technology that unifies TV, digital and social, is partnering with InfoSum, a global identity infrastructure provider, to bring alternative, privacy-compliant identity solutions to advertiser […]

Samsung Leads As Global Connected TV Device Total Hits 1.28B

Synamedia Adds SaaS Solutions For Pay TV, OTT Video Providers

The content protection, advanced advertising and video networking provider announced the first two in a series of services designed to allow video providers a more flexible, frictionless way to roll out and enhance new services while monitoring and capitalizing on consumer experience. Company executives also reported rapid growth in the video networking sector, a reaction to the media industry’s move from traditional delivery to OTT.

Blackbird Releases Video Emissions Impact Study

Blackbird plc, the developer and seller of the multi award-winning cloud-native video editing platform Blackbird, today launched a carbon awareness study titled “Video Shouldn’t Cost the Earth” developed in collaboration with […]