A sequence of recent actions suggests that cable operators are pushing back against collaboration with the Advanced Television Standards Committee’s efforts to enable carriage of the format on MVPD systems. It is unclear whether they legitimately believe, as claimed, that it is “too early” to establish ATSC 3.0 (aka Next Gen TV) retransmission procedures or if the MVPDs are defensively rejecting the standard’s data transmission opportunities as competition to cable’s own digital agenda.
Multiviewers are in the midst of a rapid evolutionary phase spurred by the proliferation of signals that need monitoring and the IP transition. As the need for control across multiviewer screens increases, the technology is also becoming more integrated with other pieces of equipment.
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions, is bringing the latest version of its LogServer IP logging, monitoring and analysis system to the NAB Show New York, Oct. 16-17, […]
Veritone Inc., the creator of aiWARE, an operating system for artificial intelligence, said the MLB’s San Francisco Giants have selected Veritone’s AI solutions to bring its 60-year media archive to […]
Cobalt Iron Inc., a provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced Cobalt Iron Compass, the new name for its flagship SaaS-based enterprise data protection platform. The company says the […]
CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for complex live event productions is adding MultiDyne’s 22-foot mobile van to its growing fleet of production vehicles. MultiDyne introduced the van in 2018 as a “mobile marketing van” […]
Black News Channel’s Wordlaw On Tap For NTF
Gary Wordlaw, VP of news and programming at the soon-to-launch Black News Channel cable network, will discuss the new venture in the keynote interview at TVNewsCheck’s seventh annual NewsTECHForum in December.
TiVo+ is the company’s new video network, while TiVo EDGE is a home entertainment viewing unit.
Nexstar’s WJHL Launches New Set And Studio
Verance, a provider of standards-based watermarking, today announced plans to bring its Aspect watermarking technology to Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV), providing a solution that it says will “significantly expand the reach […]
From Part-Time Master Control To Corporate VP
Maryann Balbo, vice president at Cox Media, started her broadcast career as a part-time master control operator in her hometown of Watertown, N.Y. Today, she lives in lives in Wichita, Kan., and is responsible for operations and advertising sales in Cox’s Kansas and Arkansas markets. She talks about her career, how she went from being the only woman in the engineering department to eventually being a station general manager and then corporate VP with stops in sales, programming and marketing along the way.
WKYC News Intros New Graphics, Breezy Vibe
The Week Four Thursday Night Football game on Fox between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers was supposed to be exciting beyond the game — which came down to a goal line stand in the final minute — as it was meant to be the debut of the NFL in 4K HDR. But Fox’s gameplan failed for a variety of reasons, allowing for only a limited audience to experience the game in the hi-res format.
PILOT, NAB‘s technology innovation initiative, announced today the winners of the latest round of its program that provides grants to NAB members to establish paid engineering or media-technology internships at their […]
Last week in South Korea, the use of ATSC 3.0 for the delivery of emergency alerts and communication became a reality. The opening ceremony of Korea’s 2019 Broadcast Industry Promotion Week […]
Social Media Excellence Awards Nominees
The second annual honors in four categories will be presented on Dec. 16 at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum.
Fincons Group publishes a new white paper on ATSC 3.0 and lessons learned from the European Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV systems.
Vela, a provider of compliance monitoring and smart logging solutions, today said that an agreement was reached last week at IBC 2019 with Videodata, a Brazilian broadcast-technology System Integrator, making Videodata […]
2020 is expected to start the deployment of ATSC 3.0 technology and services, and in preparation the Consumer Technology Association has announced that it has developed what it is calling the go-to market name and logo for the new technology, NEXTGEN TV. This name and logo will be used to identify devices that meet the ATSC 3.0 interoperability test specifications.
TVN Tech | What Starts In Vegas, Doesn’t Stay There
The NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations group’s new facility at its KBLR features a virtualized architecture that has its news/production infrastructure hosted remotely in a data technology center the station group has built in Dallas.
Reelgood has hired Mark Green, former Nielsen SVP of Global Measurement, to spearhead its new behavioral data platform. He brings more than 30 years of market knowledge, data analytics expertise and […]
GatesAir, a global provider of wireless, over-the-air content delivery solutions for radio and TV broadcasters, left Amsterdam last week with three IBC 2019 Best of Show Awards from Future. The winning products included GatesAir’s […]
Greta Van Susteren To Keynote NewsTECHForum
The cable news veteran and current host and moderator of Gray Television’s Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, will explore the growing complexities and polarization of political reporting in an interview at the seventh annual NewsTECHForum in December.
Telemundo Las Vegas Unveils New IP Plant
The 22,622 square-foot “media center” makes KBLR the first NBCUniversal-owned television station to have its news-production infrastructure hosted remotely in an off-site data technology center — in Dallas.
The open-sourced APIs include specifications for inventory, RFPs (avail requests), proposals (avail responses), orders, makegoods and pre- and post-logs, says Videa, a unit of Cox Media Group.
TV2020 Tackles ATSC 3.0’s Financial Future
Executives driving ATSC 3.0’s implementation take on its costs and potential profits at TVNewsCheck’s annual TV2020: Monetizing the Future conference in New York in October.
Independent automation provider Aveco, along with its customer Hyderabad-based Ramoji Group’s ETV Bharat App in India, have been awarded the 2019 IBC Innovation Award in the Content Everywhere category for […]