Tech Roundup

A recently acquired Gray Television CBS affiliate seen across much of New York's Adirondacks, Vermont, and key cities in Quebec is swiftly recovering from a transmitter fire that last week silenced its over-the-air signal. A similar situation is taking place at its Hearst Television-owned rivals.

In terms of revenue, the global broadcast switchers market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of ~5% during the forecast period just examined by Transparency Market Research. Numerous factors are to thank for creating a global broadcast switchers market now projected to reach a value of nearly $2.5 billion.

A veteran engineer who worked at a host of top radio broadcasting companies across a long career mostly spent in Los Angeles died Nov. 18. His most recent employer was Meruelo Media, owner of KDAY-FM, KLOS, KXOS and KPWR "Power 106," in addition to two TV stations in L.A.

File-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies firm Telestream has unveiled new post-origin content monitoring capabilities for ABR streaming media within its iQ ABR monitoring solutions.

Telia Carrier on November 20 announced that app-based TV video delivery specialist MobiTV will use the company's global IP backbone to provide scalable capacity and connectivity for MobiTV’s Pay TV operator customers across the U.S.

The Seed Plus round included current investor High Alpha, with participation from new partners Elevate Ventures and The Ricker Family, previous owners of Ricker’s convenience store chain (acquired by Giant Eagle), an inaugural customer of Vibenomics’ Audio Experience Solution.

With the television industry's post-spectrum auction repack process humming along, GatesAir in October earned a notable achievement: The company shipped its 400th repack transmitter. And, it expects to surpass 500 transmitter shipments by the end of 2019.

Six months ago, a Columbia, S.C., television station was notified that it would lose its affiliation with The CW Network after 5 1/2 years. The change came on Sept. 30, and to help WKTC on its next chapter in its 22-year history, the locally owned station contracted NVerzion to help in the transition.

Broadcast audio consortium The Telos Alliance has formally debuted the latest edition of the Axia Quasar AoIP console for U.S. consumers. The unveiling came at the recent Midwest Broadcast & Multimedia Technology Conference (formerly known as Ohio Broadcast & Multimedia Technology Conference) at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Want to attend an annual radio technology forum staged by one of the world’s largest manufacturers of AM and FM radio broadcast transmitters? Registration is now open for NUG@NAB Radio, set for April 19 at the Flamingo Las Vegas on the first day of the 2020 NAB Show.

As IP networks gain a foothold within broadcasting, broadcast control systems are becoming more complex by necessity. Futuresource Consulting’s Adam Cox, an imaging and pro video analyst, shares with RBR+TVBR his take on the broadcast landscape and the rise to prominence of broadcast control solutions in IP environments.

IP solutions provider MuxLab has some new features that it says "enhance the performance" of its DigiSign CMS software, used for delivering AV content "in endless applications in an easy-to-manage system for any level of end user." 

Chalk up another voice-activated task platform that can now access a variety of live and on-demand content from Entercom's Radio.com platform. It shares its name with a popular actor known for roles on The Incredible Hulk and for directing early 1990s NBC sitcom Blossom before his untimely death from prostate cancer.

A company "simplifying the lifecycle management of direct-to-consumer media applications" has named Bennett Theimann its Chief Financial Officer. He was previously the CFO at Conductor, a New York based enterprise SEO platform

The NAB has opened nominations for its 2020 Technology Awards, which are presented each year at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The awards highlight significant achievements in the field of broadcast technology.