Tech Roundup

A new Consumer Technology Association (CTA) study finds that the smartphone is rapidly approaching TV as the technology product most likely to be owned by Americans. Should broadcast TV be afraid? Or, is it the cable TV provider that should be worried about changing consumer habits?

A legendary News/Talk station serving Chicago by day and multiple states after dark is now producing and coordinating its programming with the Telos Infinity networked IP intercom system.

A new series of flagship multimedia receivers that got their first public view at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is now available for purchase from Kenwood USA.

"In this interconnected age, with so many different ways to interact with listeners, broadcasters need tools to facilitate the retrieval, processing and delivery of increasingly complex data streams," the company said.

For EdgeBeam Wireless, led by CEO Conrad Clemson, linking with Soracom will allow it to provide connectivity, cloud integration, and AI services for the Internet of Things by filling the gaps, if you will.

The podcast content production universe just got a little bit smaller. YEA Networks parent High 5 Media has taken a majority stake in Spoke Media, an audio content firm with an international footprint.

What are the pressing issues facing media businesses as they navigate the ever-changing issue of cybersecurity? Two managing directors at Protiviti will outline recommendations for addressing cybersecurity issues and, in the event of an attack, the prescribed steps to remediation at a session planned for the upcoming MFM 2020 CFO Summit.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the localization industry, has signed an API partnership with broadcast channel management service provider Evrideo.

Now available for marketers and broadcast TV's sales leaders: A program that gives agencies and advertisers the power to run advanced television campaigns against strategic audiences and get "total transparency" on media outputs, marketing outcomes, competitive insights and pricing.

The five radio stations that comprise Cox Media Group's Tulsa cluster have a new Chief Engineer. He began his new duties on Monday and has more than two decades of radio engineering experience.

ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz has a date with NAB President/CEO and former U.S. Senator Gordon Smith. Raddatz and Smith will headline a keynote session on Thursday at NAB Show New York, with the discussion focused on Raddatz’s experience as a war correspondent and White House reporter.

The leader of Nautel's Digital Systems team has been promoted to the Nova Scotia-based company's Chief Technology Officer role. With the promotion, this individual will lead research teams in the development of new technologies for broadcast, navigation, sonar and high-power RF applications.

Don't look now, but there's an artificial intelligence-fueled Program Director now available for radio stations to consider. The suite of radio creation tools "that completely reimagines the workflow for curating, programming, and scheduling radio experiences" comes courtesy of Super Hi-Fi.

Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) have elected three industry executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms that begin in January 2018.

Visualization and 3D tracking systems firms Planar and OptiTrack have finalized their plans for a week-long, immersive series designed to help effectively identify, design, deploy and support virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) projects.