The two will source custom live video within existing workflow. Access to Stringr’s network of more than 90,000 amateur and professional freelance videographers is now available through the TVU Global Grid.
The Arkansas Broadcasters Association announced today that the association will charter Arkansas’ first Society of Broadcast Engineers chapter. “We are proud to take this step towards better serving our engineers […]
Bitcentral Inc., a provider of media workflows in the U.S. and Latin America, has hired Evan Rullman as the vice president of national sales for Fuel, non-broadcast. Launched in August […]
Navigating The Wild West Of OTT Measurement
With no common measurement data, OTT services are playing by multiple rule books, broadcast executives say at TVNewsCheck’s OTT News Summit.
Exclusives
Big OTT Question: Whether To Build Or Buy
Panelists from a range of news organizations explain how they decided if they should build or buy the technology necessary to launch their streaming services.
The addition of Japanese companies expands the coalition’s international footprint.
Developments in TV news graphics have seen a host of improvements from better real-time flexibility to more streamlined workflows and even monetization prospects.
Cobalt Digital today announced the promotion of Kyle Wilken to vice president of firmware. Wilken joined the company in 2013 as a senior FPGA engineer, and was previously promoted to embedded […]
Buffalo, N.Y.-based sports and entertainment company Pegula Sports & Entertainment (PSE) prides itself on building fan experiences for professional sports teams including the Buffalo Bills (NFL), Buffalo Sabres (NHL), Buffalo Bandits (NLL), and Rochester Americans (AHL). Live video has become […]
TV Jobs In News, Marketing, Sales, Engineering
This past week was a busy one on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center, as Cox, NBC, Gray and Insite Wireless posted ads for openings in sales, news, marketing and engineering in Chicago, San Diego, Columbia, Boston and New York, and one opening where you can live anywhere you want.
Vizrt, a global provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators has hired two executives. James Stellpflug becomes product director to refine focus on the company’s AMECS business and […]
Qligent has a new strategic partnership in Canada with MDL Communications, a technical consultancy and value-added reseller with offices in Toronto and Montreal. The agreement designates MDL as the exclusive […]
The company joins with Sinclair Broadcast Group and Harman International Industries to demonstrate next-generation TV broadcasting by combining ATSC 3.0-based broadcast network and SK Telecom’s 5G network.
Evertz, a global provider of media and entertainment technology solutions, announces the integration and official certification of Nielsen watermarking technology within its portfolio of file-based products, which includes both Mediator-X […]
Millions of citizens turned to TV3 E19: Special Elections broadcast on May 26 to learn the results from the 2019 European Parliamentary and municipal elections — and stayed tuned in […]
VuWall, a provider of video wall and AV network management, and TBC Consoles — a technical furniture designer, manufacturer and installer — are partnering to provide an “affordable and efficient […]
Blackbird, the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video platform Blackbird, announces that it has signed up 14 post-production facilities to its new Blackbird Productions Partnership Program (BP3) in the last five […]
Compliance monitoring solution providers look to take advantage of an “unprecedented” situation after Verizon announced plans to phase out its U.S. market-leading product.
“They put you in the best seat in the house,” said Drew Esocoff, who has directed NBC’s Triple Crown telecasts since 2011. “These cameras, whether they’re high-def or 4K, also allow for better manipulation of video: zooming in, zooming out without major degradation of the video quality. It just makes the viewing experience better and you’re also looking at it on high-def monitors. Compared to what you saw 25, 30 years ago, it’s night and day.”
HERE Technologies, a global provider of mapping and location platform services, signed a multi-year partnership agreement with Total Traffic & Weather Network (TTWN), a provider of traffic, weather, news and […]
BOXX Technologies, a provider of computer workstations, rendering systems and servers, today introduced the APEXX W4L workstation featuring new Intel Xeon W-3200 series processors. BOXX says it is among the […]
Densitron, a creator of HMI technologies and a global provider of display, monitor and embedded computing solutions, has joined nearly 2,000 worldwide adopters of the HDMI standard and is now […]
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) has chosen Amazon Web Services as its standard for cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. NASCAR will use AWS technologies […]
Stockholm-based Accedo has built and delivered Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV service on Amazon Fire TV. Magenta TV offers a rich live and VOD video experience, giving subscribers access to as many […]
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions, has expanded the capabilities of its LogServer IP-based logging, monitoring and analysis software to provide support for 8K HEVC (High Efficiency Video […]
GatesAir has delivered its 300th repack transmitter. Cornerstone Television’s WPCB Pittsburgh (DMA 24) took delivery of its new Maxiva ULXTE-50 liquid-cooled transmitter late last week. WPCB has been repacked from ch. 50 to 28, and will transmit at 31.7 kW from its new frequency beginning Aug. […]
