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    World-class innovators are riding a tidal wave of live linear streaming to connected TVs and transforming news storytelling and the relationship with consumers across channels and apps. Why is this happening? How is the news genre uniquely geared-up to benefit from the opportunity? This webinar will unpack specific, historic and bold innovations happening in news thanks to the technological maturation of 24/7 streaming, the programmatic TV ad stack, the penetration of CTV devices into homes and the migration…

      Leaders in the IP transition gather to talk about projects, interoperability, audio, data center strategies and more.   Speakers: Rab Mukraj, CTO, ABS-CBN International François Legrand, Senior Director of Core Systems Engineering, CBC/Radio Canada Ryan McCormick, Executive Director, Engineering & Studio Operations, ABC News Ray Thompson, Director, Marketing Solutions, Broadcast and Media, Avid Brian Kincheloe, Director of Production Technology, NBCUniversal Local Glen Dickson, Contributing Editor, TVNewsCheck (moderator)   Register Now  

    TVNewsCheck brings together the winners of its 2022 Women In Technology Awards for a wide ranging conversation in which they share their predictions for where media and entertainment technology is headed.   Speakers: Judy Parnall, Head of Standards and Industry, BBC & Chair, EBU Technical Committee Anupama Anantharaman, VP, Product Management, Interra Systems Diane Struttner, CEO & Founder, Datazoom Sharri Berg, President, Fox Weather & COO, News and Operations, Fox Television Stations Kylee Peña, Manager, Creative Technologies Program…

    TV Station groups are diversifying local programming to replace syndicated shows and create new options for linear and streaming services. What formats are proving successful and how are shows being produced efficiently? What purely local shows are working? Is OTT feeding the programming beast on linear or vice versa? Speakers: Frank Cicha, EVP Programming, Fox Television Stations Sean McLaughlin, VP of News, Local Division, The E.W. Scripps Company Adam Ostrow, Chief Digital Officer, Tegna Matt Jaquint, SVP, Local…

  Recognizing women who have contributed significantly to advancing their industry technologically - or who show great promise of doing so - the Women in Technology Awards support the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation's Technology Apprentice Program, which trains, informs and recruits a diverse workforce that meets the emerging technology and engineering needs of the broadcasting community.   2022 Women In Tech Honorees Leadership Award Judy Parnall, Head of Standards and Industry & Chair, EBU Technical Committee Sharri Berg,…

  Climate change and a fast-evolving media industry add up to a challenging new environment for weather storytellers and the technology powering their work. How can the cloud significantly increase collaboration among meteorologists while ensuring faster, more cost effective disaster recovery and enhanced security? How can new, browser-based tools expand your storytelling team? How can new alerting capabilities speed multi-media communications? Join TVNewsCheck and The Weather Company for a conversation about the changing world of weather storytelling and its technology.…

  Local media buyers and sellers want to create multimedia campaigns, but barriers, including inadequate audience data and workflow silos, are slowing things down. What can buyers and sellers do to create short-term workarounds and long-term solutions that will enable them to transact across media including linear TV, streaming, mobile and digital advertising? Where are the needed data and technology solutions that would facilitate multimedia buys? Speakers: Heather Gundry, SVP Group Director, Local Investment, Dentsu X Missy Evenson, VP sales,…

    The first step in moving production to the cloud has been taking place in storage and MAM. Technology pioneers talk about their best strategies for accomplishing this move smoothly. Speakers: Dominic Brouard, Director, Media Engineering, Vice Media Group Mike Palmer, Senior Director, Media Management, Sinclair Broadcast Group Renard Jenkins, SVP, Production Integration & Creative Technology Services, Warner Bros. Discovery Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects, Hearst Television Paulo Santos, Senior Solution Architect, Vizrt Solutions and Cloud Glen Dickson,…

  Fox Corp’s Gryphon Project, a pioneering new cloud-native operations center in Tempe, Ariz., is a major facet of an overarching reinvention of underlying technology for all the businesses at the company. Its architects will discuss their technology strategy and the role played by the new Gryphon Project, a highly-redundant, 8K-capable facility that serves as the content hub for all of Fox’s broadcast and digital businesses, managing and delivering hundreds of thousands of hours of programming to over 200 Fox…

    Streaming leaders share insights into their strategies for live streaming, simulcast, on demand and original content creation, along with the shows they're developing and the audience development objectives behind them. Executives explain how they're reconciling their ramp up of production with existing newsroom resources and how they're using their staff, facilities and technology to meet the new demand. Speakers: Adam Wiener, Founder, Continuous Media (moderator) Socrates Lozano, Senior Director, ScrippsCast and Newsroom Innovation, The E.W. Scripps Company Emily…

Local media buyers and sellers are moving beyond age/sex demographics to use data that helps target advertising to customers or likely customers. More data keeps track of how well consumers are reacting to different creative approaches. How are leading media buyers and sellers preparing for this new approach to targeting and assessing the success of campaigns? Are best practices emerging? What impact is data-based targeting having on revenue? Speakers: Brad Thompson, SVP & Partner, Integrated Investment, UM Worldwide Shawn Makhijani,…

    As streaming becomes more of a focus for national and local news, executives will discuss how sales organizations are adapting to maximize direct sales and get the most out of programmatic exchange. Streaming leaders also discuss their strategies for audience development on OTT channels, the role of vMVPDs and where marketing and UX continue to evolve to give newsrooms a competitive edge. Speakers: Brian Fisher, SVP, Digital Sales, Estrella Media Shawn Makhijani, SVP of Business Development and Strategy, NBCUniversal…

  From video acquisition to multimedia content production and distribution, storytelling continues to be influenced and enhanced by remote workflows. What new innovations have emerged during 2022 at broadcasting companies and their technology partners? What are the pain points and how can they be addressed? How is remote production affecting new facilities and studio design? Speakers: Don Roberts, VP of Sports, Engineering & Production, Sinclair Broadcast Group Brad Plant, Executive Director, Technology, WLS TV Clint Moore, Director of Broadcast Operations,…

Register Now Agenda Highlights Security and the Road to Modernizing Broadcast Technology The threat of ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity issues are compelling media companies to overhaul their broadcast technology and speed their transitions to IP. How are companies designing the technology workflows of the future? What kinds of investments are necessary and do CEOs understand the level of need? A panel of security and technology leaders talks about the challenge, strategies and timetables.   Managing the Media’s Expanding Security…

  Register Now   Agenda Highlights   Creating More Content for a Multimedia Audience  TV station groups see significant opportunity in expanding their news and other local programming to serve audiences on streaming, NextGen TV, the web, mobile and in some cases their daytime lineups. With content creation teams maxed out, they need to streamline traditional workflows to enable news sharing, collaboration and easy reversioning for multiple platforms. How are hubbing, the cloud, AI and other technologies powering this transformation…

  One in three Americans have been affected by extreme weather in the last two years, increasing the need for alerting by local TV stations, the leading source of news about emergencies and preparedness. How is technology streamlining the process of creating and triggering alerts across many platforms, and how is it making life easier for busy meteorologists, who need to be able to log in and work from anywhere? Join TVNewsCheck and The Weather Company for a look at…

      Live production in the cloud is becoming a reality, particularly for smaller events. Live playout from the cloud may become a reality in 2023. As cloud workflows continue to evolve, how will pioneering technology strategists adjust their strategies for 2023? Are they using more than one cloud service? Have they nailed security in their cloud containers and media pipelines? Speakers: Walid Hamri, Senior Director, Media Systems, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Jamie Simmons, Senior Director, Content Technology, NBCUniversal…