MwareTV, a cloud-based multi-tenant platform provider, has hired Daniel Conde Coto as director, sales operations to help boost its presence in the Americas. Coto has a degree from Spain’s University […]
Syncbak, which provides stations with streaming capabilities, said it is rebranding as Zeam Media. The new name is designed to move Zeam from a tech company to a media and advertising company. Gray Television, the National Association of Broadcasters, Morgan Murphy Media and Northwest Broadcasting CEO Brian Brady are investors in the company.
KSAT, KLRN, KVDA, KENS and KWEX join four other stations in the market to broadcast with ATSC 3.0 transmission technology.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a director of student media and a national operations director. Existing openings include a digital platform specialist, an account executive and a sales director.
Innovid, a software platform for the creation, delivery, measurement and optimization of advertising across connected TV (CTV), linear TV and digital, has joined Ad Net Zero, a trade association focused exclusively […]
Brightcove, a streaming technology company, has implemented Amazon Q Business, a new generative AI assistant on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using its own public documentation, product, and release notes, Brightcove is […]
Video: Tapping NextGen TV’s Measurement Potential With RUN3TV
Chris Ripley, president and CEO of Sinclair, and Pat LaPlatney, president and co-CEO of Gray Television, explain how the new RUN3TV web platform for ATSC 3.0 can unlock valuable viewer measurement data along with other imminent ROI opportunities for the technology in this video from TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference. Click here to register as a TVN subscriber and get access to all videos from this exclusive event.
Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series Will Train 1,000 Journalists On AI Accountability Reporting
The Pulitzer Center has officially kicked off The AI Spotlight Series, a new training initiative that aims to teach 1,000 journalists how to do AI accountability reporting over the next two years. On April 21, roughly 40 journalists gathered at the University of California, Berkeley for the inaugural “Introduction to AI reporting” session, which was built to demystify basic AI concepts for reporters outside the tech beat.
SMPTE Spells Out AI Standards Process
Renard Jenkins, SMPTE president, along with AMD’s Fred Walls and EBU’s Alex Roulex explore the ongoing development work for AI standards currently in progress at SMPTE. They emphasize the importance of standards development, interoperability and authentication as key components to adoption which need to be integrated into the development and deployment process of the technology.
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, says that French TV network TF1 is powering targeted ad insertion […]
Clear-Com played a pivotal role in the seamless coverage of the recent solar eclipse on April 8. Leveraging its Eclipse HX Digital Matrix intercom system and Agent-IC mobile app software, Clear-Com provided NBC’s KXAS and Telemundo […]
DPA Microphones, a manufacturer of microphone solutions, has hired Jens Jermiin as the brand’s new vice president of marketing. A marketing veteran, with previous roles at global brands including Coca-Cola, […]
In a Michigan basement decked out in maize and blue, a father sat with his son. They’d bond over a football video game. One with a story mode that would […]
As desperate AI companies face training data shortages, news organizations are finding new ways to fight back against the AI scraping of their content without permission (Jon Accarrino/MidJourney). This is the debut of TVNewsCheck’s new AI & TV column from veteran executive Jon Accarrino, founder of the media technology and AI strategy firm Ordo Digital.
Munich-based broadcaster Mainstream Media, which operates across Germany, North America, Poland and LatAm, has completed 240 minutes of voiceover by leveraging Dubformer’s AI technology. As a result of the project, the […]
Agile Content, a provider of technology and solutions for television services over the Internet, announces Koldo Unanue as its new CEO. The appointment was announced alongside Agile’s financial results, following […]
The new headquarters for the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is the first NCAA Division 1 conference based in Washington, D.C. As doors officially opened in January (with full staff transition expected by […]
Haivision Systems Inc., a global provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, announces its 20th anniversary by highlighting its many live video solutions. Since its founding in […]
Artificial intelligence is proving both a blessing and a bane for news publishers. On the one hand, generative AI technologies promise productivity gains for newsrooms when used responsibly and transparently. However, it also has the potential to create a minefield of misinformation for the public and for journalists to navigate. There’s also the allegation of copyright infringement that news publishers have begun to legally challenge. These are just a few examples of how AI disrupts news, but there’s another: AI-powered search.
The purchase would give SES a combined fleet of more than 100 satellites.
OpenDrives Inc., a global provider of software-defined media workflow solutions and data management capabilities, has joined the globally recognized and trusted AWS Partner Network (APN). Atlas, OpenDrives’ software-defined architecture, leverages […]
Manifold Technologies, a provider of service-oriented software solutions for Tier 1 live productions, says its Manifold Cloud was selected by NEP Belgium to provide a signal processing and multiviewer solution […]
The introductions of HDR and Dolby Atmos immersive sound to coverage of the Kentucky Derby are among the group’s latest technical additions that also include new interactive and streaming services for viewers.
In Race to Build AI, Tech Plans A Big Plumbing Upgrade
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
Space Industry Races To Put AI In Orbit
A raft of startups, companies and governments are trying to develop new chips to unlock AI’s power in space. The harsh conditions of space have so far limited the use of AI on board satellites that play a critical role in the space economy. AI could help fuel growth in the space industry, which some predict will be worth as much as $1.8 trillion by 2035 — on par with the semiconductor industry. But right now the space industry is in “the Dark Ages,” says former NASA administrator Dan Goldin. “Instead of doing edge computing, it is done in data centers and mission control.”
MetaBroadcast, a metadata management provider for broadcasters, streamer services and pay TV operators, has been awarded the DPP Committed to Sustainability mark. In the face of growing concern about climate […]
Music video network Vevo has added its app to Telly, a free TV upgrade for the living room. Vevo says it will provide Telly TV users with “high-quality music videos, including […]
Saudi Arabia Spends Big To Become An AI Superpower
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
WMTW, WGME, WPFO and WMEA-WCBB are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.