Tech Roundup

Don't look now, but the yo-yo activity seen in the last several months from AI-powered content recognition specialist Veritone Inc., a growing partner with radio and TV broadcasters, has ceased. Steady growth has been seen in the last month, pushing the company's shares back above the $20 mark.

A media streaming company based in Northern California recently completed "a strategic upgrade" and enhancements to its ABR monitoring solution, bringing "significant benefits" to content owners, broadcasters and online video service providers offering content across the broadest range of devices.

The integration of Triton Digital's programmatic audio advertising marketplace with a top content-targeted video advertising network is now complete. Find out what this can do for your stations' digital revenue enhancement plan.

Rohde & Schwarz is expanding its R&S AVHE100 encoding and multiplexing product line -- a move it says is an enhancement for not only its own tool, but also third-party platforms. HDR video transmission support is one of the new capabilities getting touted by the German company.

The acceleration of next-gen online video infrastructure software — something that's growing in interest among television companies -- has become a lot more easier for San Francisco-based firm Bitmovin. The company successfully raised millions of dollars to help expand its global customer base of TV streaming providers, social media companies and internet companies. 

Thanks to a new partnership forged May 1, the Zixi Platform is now fully integrated with the Talon encoder and decoders manufactured by Dallas-based Osprey Video. Osprey is known for its video-capture technology.

What is being pitched as the industry's "only automated solution for the entire syndicated content workflow" got its debut in the North Hall of the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas earlier this month.

In February 2018, former Imagine Communications CEO Charlie Vogt emerged as the chief executive of a company laser-focused on Optical Access, Media Gateway and Broadcast Distribution technologies. Now, Vogt is welcoming four key additions to the leadership team at the company, ATX Networks.

GatesAir, working closely with The Durst Organization, has completed the relocation of a New York broadcaster to One World Trade Center nearly four years after its opening.

A founding partner in the openGear initiative has just been promoted to the newly created position of VP/Marketing and Strategic Accounts.

Don't want your TV station's sports reports to be a boring read from behind the desk? Here's something that promises to bring a new dimension to a sportscaster's delivery -- namely, the ability to pause, slow down or replay sports footage while live on the air.

The FCC has launched a new Honors Engineer Program to recruit current students and recent engineering school graduates to the FCC and into the forefront of the technology and communications fields.

At the end of 2013, more than 60% of the U.S. population owned a smartphone. The latest research showed that many of them are actively researching local businesses on the fly. That led Martin Kristiseter, today a senior VP at Marketron Digital, to pen a Media Information Bureau column that concludes Radio, whose audiences are predominantly local, can play a huge role in leveraging mobile to help local retail. In turn, mobile, which is far-reaching, can boost local radio. We revisit Kristiseter's column more than four years later, as his advice still holds true today.

Kurt Rao has become the newest executive at TEGNA, the broadcast TV company formerly known as Gannett. Starting today, he's the Chief Technology Officer for the company, working across TEGNA "to drive the development and implementation of the company’s next-generation client and customer technology solutions."

On the first day of the 2018 NAB Show, which officially began April 9, LG Electronics was in a festive mood. The South Korean company's R&D leader was at the Las Vegas Convention Center and joined the AWARN Alliance, NAB and RAPA, South Korea’s broadcast promotion association, to celebrate the signing of a landmark memorandum of understanding regarding international cooperation on advanced emergency alerting powered by the new next gen TV standard and the Advanced Warning and Response Network.