Tech Roundup

Broadcast audio consortium Telos Alliance has brought to market Podcast Audio Processing Software. And, the company considers the OmniaTools offering to be an "enterprise-class toolset that gives podcasters everything they need to deliver listenable audio with a consistently prominent sound."

MPEG2 encoding and transcoding has been added as well as SCTE 104 to SCTE 35 ad insertion conversion. With the addition of these two features, the SCP 2100 is, in the words of Sencore, "an extremely versatile edge device for acquiring, compressing and backhauling content across the internet."

At-home production and REMI — an acronym that non-tech leaders may not know — have grown in importance over the last several years. It was only accelerated by the pandemic. Thus, having Jim Jachetta, EVP/Chief Technology Officer of VidOvation, as Adam R Jacobson's guest on the latest InFOCUS Podcast couldn't be timelier.  LISTEN HERE

NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt will present the Radio and Television Engineering Achievement Awards during a 2022 NAB Show session titled “Hollywood’s ‘Binge Times’ OTT Battle and NAB Engineering Awards." The session is scheduled for April 24 at 3pm Pacific.

This effort, the companies say, enables radio stations "to easily sell and create OTT and digital video assets on behalf of local advertisers." The collaboration allows for the introduction of a digital video ad type to vCreative’s workflow products.

Later this autumn, the parent company of HD Radio will separate its intellectual property (IP) business, making it a standalone operation. We now know who will be leading that forthcoming entity, to be known as Adeia.

A London-based independent video software provider has purchased a privately held provider of a cloud video delivery platform optimized for "just-in-time" processing of live video streaming.

Nova Scotia-based Nautel is gearing up for IBC2022 in Amsterdam, where it will take Stand 8.C71, by rolling out a new "VX Series" of FM transmitters. They're being offered in 11 power outputs, including a new variety suitable perhaps for a Class A FM.

In 1999, a Flushing, N.Y.-based operation was founded to provide a higher level of mobile television production to broadcast and corporate organizations worldwide. When the company recently needed to upgrade from 1080i cameras to 1080p with 3G-SDI connectivity, it chose SK-HD1800 studio and field production cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd.

Chris Maccaro, a media and ad tech veteran with more than 20 years of experience leading, transforming, and driving growth across a wide range of organizations who was named CEO of Beachfront in 2018, chats with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson about the power of programmatic and why a cross-platform approach remains key to any marketing campaign. LISTEN HERE

A suburban Detroit-based supplier of professional production, playback, streaming and robotics for the broadcast and professional AV markets has just been purchased by the tech company serving radio and TV led by President Ken Frommert. 

Available in a variety of formats, the microphones deliver the combination of high max SPL with high sensitivity, making them a versatile choice capable of handling the powerful vocals of a live sound event or the quietest whispers of a conversation in a studio.

Both units support analog MPX on BNC, MPX over AES192, and multipoint signal distribution, to deliver a wide range of composite encoder and decoder solutions for different applications, Perth-based Tieline says.

MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems has opened the doors to its first office focused on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It will be located in Gdansk, Poland, and will be led by MultiDyne's Director of Business Development for the "EMEA" region.

He’ll lead a four-person team at CPB to work with FEMA to administer funding to public media stations for the Next Generation Warning System. Introducing the new Executive Director for the next-gen system.