Monday, September 16, 2024

AM and FM To Meet Alexa, Thanks To Tivoli

The quintessential tabletop radio has been propelled into the age of not just the smartphone, but also the smart home. However, consumers may wish to wait until later in 2017. That's when Tivoli Audio will be integrating Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.

This Global Workflow Optimization Firm Expands Its ‘Buy Side’ Expertise

MediAnswers, known for its development of products and processes for individuals on the "sell side" of the broadcast media business, has just expanded its expertise on the "buy side" of the media business by hiring a new VP/Agency Solutions.

This Broadcast Watermark Analyzer and Monitor Bears A Familiar Name

If you're a David Bowie fan, you're going to love the name of the newest broadcast watermark analyzer and monitor on the market, courtesy of The Telos Alliance. The company leading the charge into an ATSC 3.0 world has just launched the 25-Seven TVC-15, being marketed as "a modulation monitor for watermarking."

NAB Show Spotlight: Tote Caddies Get A Refresh

Joseph Electronics will be putting its Tote Caddie series of portable fiber-optic signal-acquisition systems for ENG, SNG, and other outside broadcast (OB) applications front and center at the 2017 NAB Show.

ENCO To Expand enCloud In Time For NAB Show

ENCO is again expanding its enCloud suite, and the tech firm says 2017 NAB Show attendees will have access to its WebDAD, "an even richer and fully virtualized toolset to remotely access and control the studio-based ENCO DAD radio automation systems."

The All-Software Migration Continues With ChryonHego

As broadcasters continue to migrate to all-software environments and standard off-the-shelf IT technologies, including virtualized server environments, ChryronHego is ensuring its array of products meets the growing demand of TV industry engineers.
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Mixed Movement For Media Stocks

It was an up-and-down trading day on Wall Street Wednesday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 69.03, to 20,855.73, while the Nasdaq Composite...

A Color-tunable mid-power soft light

A producer of lighting systems for the TV, photography and the motion picture industries is set to debut a new color-tunable mid-power soft light at NAB 2017.

A New UI, Web Portal For A Popular Phantom

Inspired by feedback from both affiliates of the production tool and its partners, United Stations Radio Networks has announced the official launch of a new Phantom Producer website that features a "re-imagined user interface" (UI) known as the Sequencer.

EMF’s At It Again With Twin Takes

Educational Media Foundation can’t seem to curb its spending habits, and the noncommercial operator of the Air1 and KLOVE Christian music formats has grabbed an FM it’s been leasing in Central Washington. It’s also just added an FM in the Peachtree State that bears a nickname old-time Top 40 listeners in Atlanta will know.

Altice Snags Multiscreen Addressable Ad-Solution Player

A global provider of data-driven, audience-based digital advertising solutions has been snatched by the U.S. subsidiary of a Dutch telecommunications giant.

‘Reliable, Redundant, System-Wide Routing Control’ Is Here

Broadcast technology innovator The Telos Alliance, parent company to Telos, Omnia, Axia, 25-Seven, Linear Acoustic, and Minnetonka, is now making available its Axia Pathfinder Core PRO Routing Control and Facility Management Appliance.

A New Range of IP- Gateway Products Arrives

A British designer and manufacturer of high-quality fiber-optic links for the broadcast, telecommunications, and professional AV industries is set to highlight its latest range of IP-gateway products at the 2017 NAB Show.

Want Reduced Latency for OTT Live Video Streaming?

A provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and video-on-demand (VOD) servers for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide has brought to market a new low-latency solution that reduces the latency common when video is streamed live to connected devices.
Erwin Krasnow

The Schizophrenic Politics of the First Amendment

Does the First Amendment care who won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016? Erwin G. Krasnow, the co-chair of the Communications Group of Washington, D.C. law firm Garvey Schubert Barer, tackles this question in a column that delves into fairness, and the First Amendment, and where broadcasters are under a Trump presidency.