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9-9:45 am

News Operation in a Changed World

How has widespread remote production in news programming changed the way TV’s engineering, news and digital content community think about designing the newsrooms, studios and control rooms of the future? A brainstorming session with executives in technology, news and digital.

9:45-10 am

Fireside Chat

News Production in the Cloud: A Road Map for 2022 and Beyond

Remote production, and in particular editing in the cloud, has become a way of life in the media industry since March 2020. What has Avid learned as it facilitated widespread remote production for enterprise clients including news organizations and TV station groups? How has this work inspired changes in Avid solutions and how do media organizations specifically benefit from these changes? How is Avid approaching security and business continuity at a time when ransomware attacks are becoming a critical concern for media companies?

10-10:45 am

Keynote Interview

Fox Weather has shaken up the landscape of TV meteorology since its October launch, accelerating competition on this crucial news front. Sharri Berg, the new streaming channel’s president, along with meteorologists Amy Freeze and Craig Herrera, will lay out how Fox plans to disrupt the industry in A Change In Weather: Behind Fox’s New Streaming Channel, the keynote interview for TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference on Dec. 14.

10:45-11 am

Networking Break

11-11:45 am

Reinventing TV News for a Connected World

TV broadcasters have tried for years to attract younger audiences without offending existing linear TV audiences. The rise of streaming and mobile offer clear opportunities to reinvent the wheel. We gather news leaders, innovators and iconoclasts to re-imagine video news and talk about how technology can help or hinder the transformation.

11:45-Noon

Fireside Chat

Productivity Without Pain: Breaking Down the Silos in News Storytelling

Noon-1 pm

Lunch

1-1:45 pm

The Cloud & the Future of News Production

The cloud offers potential for news organizations with correspondents located around the world, throughout a regional or across a single DMA. TV’s engineering community is already planning content management’s move into the cloud and cloud editing is gaining ground. What steps are engineering/IT managers taking to move more news operations into a cloud or hybrid cloud setting? What are they learning about costs, security and other concerns?

1:45-2 pm

Fireside Chat

Reasons to Migrate Your Weather Technology to the Cloud

Weather is one of your most important news assets. Join Ethan Dreilinger, Global Client solutions Engineer at The Weather Company, and Kurt Rao, CTO of Tegna, as they discuss the benefits of migrating your weather technology to the cloud for greater scalability, collaboration and disaster recovery.

2-2:45 pm

Reinventing the Live Shot

Smaller news vehicles, cameras that acquire, stream and even edit video, connectivity via bonded cellular, low earth orbit satellite, 2 GHz, 5G: The changing economics of the video news industry has technologists imagining new ways to handle the live shot. We gather leaders  in traditional an non-traditional ENG to imagine the future together.

2:45-3 pm

Networking Break

3-3:45 pm

Remote Production & the Future of News Storytelling

Has a centric workflow, long a mantra in news production, gotten a boost from more than a year of distributed production? How are news managers, producers and the operations teams that support them reimagining production and storytelling in a post-pandemic world?

3:45-4 pm

Fireside Chat

4-4:45 pm

News Technology and Combating Disinformation

News, technology and digital leaders discuss the daily battle with disinformation and misinformation over crucial topics like COVID-19 and elections and the newsroom resources and methodologies they bring to bear in the fight.