USSI Global Ups Amanda Flynn To Chief Revenue Officer

USSI Global, a turnkey provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services worldwide, has promoted Amanda Flynn to chief revenue officer, effective March 1. Among her new responsibilities, […]

Planetcast Expands Online Content Streaming Services With Acquisition of Switch Media

Planetcast Media Services, a media technology services provider in India and Southeast Asia, has acquired one of its key partners, Switch Media, a white-label OTT platform provider deployed across Asia-Pacific, Europe and […]

RDK Joins Wireless Broadband Alliance To Collaborate On Home Wi-Fi And IoT Initiatives

RDK Management has joined the Wireless Broadband Alliance and that the two organizations’ members plan to collaborate on industry-wide initiatives such as Operator Managed Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 7, and IoT. RDK and WBA […]

BRAND CONNECTIONS

Grass Valley Completes $220 Million Strategic Refinancing

Grass Valley, a provider of live production solutions, and a portfolio company of private equity firm Black Dragon Capital, have completed a $220 million strategic refinancing led by certain investment […]

OPEN MIKE BY TIM SEWELL

For FAST Channels, Server-Side Ad Insertion Is A Potent Revenue Tool

Broadcasters need to harness SSAI cost-effectively to get the most monetization opportunities from the FAST channels they’ve embraced. The ad insertion tech is getting better at helping them.

Sinclair Putting Tennis Channel’s T2 On NextGen Broadcast Channels

Sinclair Broadcast Group said its television stations will be carrying Tennis Channel’s T2 network on virtual channels available using the NextGen broadcast standard. T2, aimed at younger adult viewers,  will be available free, over the air in 43 markets where Sinclair stations are broadcast using ATSC 3.0 technology.

NAB Show: TVU Networks To Feature Solutions Developed With Leading Media Companies

TVU Networks, a global provider of cloud and IP-based live video technologies, will have its full cloud ecosystem on display at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Booth W2101, […]

Comark Releases Parallax Compact Transmitter For SFN & Next-Gen TV

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark, a manufacturer and supplier of DTV transmitters, encoding systems, and associated field services for over 50 years, has released the Parallax Compact UHF/VHF liquid-cooled, solid-state DTV […]

NAB Show: MRMC To Showcase Broadcast & Robotic Camera Tech

Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC), a Nikon company, will showcase its latest robotic camera technologies and virtual production workflows at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17). MRMC has a […]

NAB Show: Barix To Launch New Audio-Over-IP Broadcast Codec

Barix continues to build out its next-generation line of audio-over-IP encoders and decoders with a new broadcast-specific solution that introduces important new benefits for STL, studio-to-studio and other audio networking […]

NAB Show: Moments Lab To Unveil Next-Generation MXT-1.5 AI

AI and cloud media company Moments Lab, formerly Newsbridge, will showcase new features powered by the latest version of its award-winning AI indexing models at the NAB Show in Las […]

NAB Show: Pliant Technologies Debuts Crewware 2.0 Software Update

Pliant Technologies will present its new CrewWare 2.0 software update at the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Booth C5310, marking the first substantial update since its introduction of […]

Pikolo Systems & Actus Digital Announce Partnership/Product Integration

Pikolo Systems Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Actus Digital to streamline and increase engagement for broadcast operations. Pikolo creates workflow automation solutions designed specifically for managing day-to-day […]

NAB Show: Marshall To Debut VMV-402-3GSH Switcher

Marshall Electronics will introduceits VMV-402-3GSH Switcher at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Booth C5912. The Marshall VMV-402-3GSH is a four-input, auto-scaling, seamless switcher. The Marshall VMV-402-3GSH can be […]

NAB Show: Miller Tripods To Unveil Solo-Q Pod

Celebrating 70 years in the industry, Miller Tripods, provider of professional fluid heads and tripods for the world’s leading camera operators in film and television, will unveil its new Solo-Q […]

AI & THE MEDIA

Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence

The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic fund to invest in AI technology, potentially becoming the largest player in the hot market.

PILOT Announces Winning Teams For 2024 Innovation Challenge

PILOT, the innovation arm of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), today announced Amira Labs, AudioShake and Chord Communities as the winners of the 2024 PILOT Innovation Challenge and named […]

NAB Show: JVC Highlights NDI And vMix Partnerships

JVC Professional Video will feature special guests, including NDI Technical Director Roberto Musso and vMix Senior Systems Engineer Heath Barker, during the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Booth […]

NAB Show: Imagine To Highlight Solutions For Sustainable Profitability For Linear & CTV

At the 2024 NAB Show Las Vegas (April 14-17), Imagine Communications will showcase its latest innovations in its broad portfolio of “Make TV” and “Monetize TV” solutions in the convention’s […]

Telos Alliance Announces 25-Seven PDMX Program Delay Managers

Telos Alliance, a global provider of broadcast audio, has introduced the 25-Seven PDMX program delay manager. PDMX is a software version of the 25-Seven PDM II Program Delay Manager and the […]

NAB 2024: Telestream Introduces AI-Powered Tools For Rapid Content Delivery

As media proliferates across a growing number of platforms — including OTT streaming services, social media video channels, direct-to-consumer offerings, interactive content experiences, and traditional linear TV — the media and […]

Newsbridge Changes Its Name To Moments Lab

AI and video search company Newsbridge today unveiled its new identity: Moments Lab. The rebrand includes a new logo, visual identity and company name that the company says better encompasses […]

Channel 4 Television Chooses Witbe To Automate QA Testing Of Its Streaming App

Witbe, a global provider of test automation and monitoring technology for video service providers, today announced a new customer in Channel 4 Television Corp. — owner and operator of the […]

Arctic Semiconductor Unveils SilverWings Low-Power All-In-One RF Transceiver

Arctic Semiconductor, a provider of low-power, versatile RF and mixed-signal chipsets, unveiled SilverWings today. The company says SilverWings “is the first-ever 4×4 low-power transceiver offering multi-stage up and down conversion from digital […]

Verance To Demo HbbTV ADB2 At DVB World Conference

Verance, a provider of standards-based watermarking, today announced its demonstration of the integration of Verance Aspect watermarking technology into the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) ecosystem. This demo, taking place […]

YouTube Enforces AI-Generated Video Labels For Creators

After making an initial announcement in November, YouTube is officially rolling out a new set of rules around synthetic media. To enforce a sense of transparency around what users are seeing on the video-sharing app, YouTube is now requiring creators to publicly disclose when they upload synthetic content, including generative AI, that they have altered or created to be realistic in any way.

Google News Initiative And RTDNA Partner For Free Elections Training

RTDNA is hitting the road in 2024, with the support of the Google News Initiative, to bring training on digital tools for elections coverage to broadcast and digital newsrooms, as […]

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a media engineer supervisor, a national advertising sales account executive and a broadcast maintenance technician.

Sling TV Unveils New Auto Record Feature

Sling TV has announced the launch of its original feature, Auto Record, which will make it easier to record games during March Madness. After users opt in, the feature automatically records NCAA Football, NFL, NBA, NCAA Men’s Basketball, MLB, NHL, Premier League, NCAAW, WNBA, Bundesliga and La Liga Santander. With the feature, users no longer need to worry about setting the DVR or missing out on their favorite games.

ATSC Expanding Video Compression Options For 3.0

ATSC, the broadcast standards association, is working to add the international video compression method Versatile Video Coding (VVC) as an option in addition to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) […]