At TVNewsCheck’s annual NewsTECHForum on Dec. 11 in New York, consultant Hank Volpe will moderate a discussion among four broadcast tech experts on best practices in field production; communicating with the newsroom;and acquiring video anywhere, any time and anyhow, along with getting the content back securely and economically.

Discovery and ABC both rely on the cloud — one public, one private — to deliver their cable networks. Now broadcasters are looking at how the cloud can benefit not just distribution but also production, whether that means live news or sports coverage or post-production applications like editing.

Technology and a fascination with how the nation will proceed under President Trump has quickly pushed the news outlets to rework themselves for a new era. As more consumers get their first headlines from social media and smartphone alerts, news executives need to consider streaming mobile video as well as cable schedules and the evening news, all the better to compete in new ways against media outlets with roots in print that were once regarded as less-direct rivals.

Sali Osman, a cybersecurity and risk strategy adviser, will lead a two-hour interactive exercise to train security and IT leaders in how to respond to a cybersecurity attack. The event will kick off the TVNewsCheck’s 2019 Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat.

Valari Staab, president of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, will be interviewed by TVNewsCheck Editor Harry Jessell on Monday, Dec. 10. They will talk about her station group’s significant investment in overhauling its technology; its expanded investigative and consumer coverage, and increase in the amount of bilingual coverage.

Mitch Singer: “Samsung, LG and Sony — the biggest TV manufacturers — have recently joined Fox, NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Group and a growing list of other leading broadcasters in voicing their commitment to ATSC 3.0, which powers next-gen TV.”

To accommodate the hearing impaired, the FCC requires stations to caption news and other live programming that they broadcast with minimal delays between the audio and captions. Some broadcasters would like to go beyond the regulatory mandate and caption all the programming they put on digital media. Automated captioning, helped by artificial intelligence, is closing in on making that a real possibility.

Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. Civil Media Co. was introduced earlier this year as both a media platform and a network, to be owned and operated by journalists and concerned citizens in tandem.

Sinclair joint venture ONE Media is pleading its case with the FCC to make sure ATSC 3.0 next-gen TV standards are considered while making plans for 5G networks. According to an FCC filing, Mark Aitken, president of ONE Media, recently met with Commissioner Michael O’Rielly and other FCC officials to discuss ATSC 3.0’s ability to deliver data services outside of television.

NAB has called on the FCC to recognize the important role C-band plays in content delivery for radio and television stations, MVPDs and OTT operators, to be judicious in the way it makes decisions about reallocating part of the band for wireless use and not to take steps that will degrade C-band satellite service by allowing shared use in the non-reallocated part of the band.