Tech Roundup

Riedel is known as a designer, manufacturer, and distributor of real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks for broadcast, pro audio, live-event sports, theater and security applications. It will have an expo booth at NAB Show New York, where it is putting a spotlight on four specific products.

Among the many companies exhibiting at NAB Show New York, set for October 16-17, is Telestream. The company known for its file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies will showcase its latest range of products and services touching all aspects of the digital media life cycle.

CP Communications, known for products of use in producing live events, is adding MultiDyne’s 22-foot mobile van — introduced in 2018 for mobile marketing — to its growing fleet of production vehicles.

PILOT, NAB's technology innovation initiative, has revealed winners of the latest round of its program that provides grants to National Association of Broadcasters members to establish paid engineering or media-technology internships at their radio and television stations.

Here's a scoop on some news regarding an upcoming product announcement at NAB Show New York: Xytech will now start shipping the latest updates to its MediaPulse 2019 facilities management software for broadcasters and post-production companies.

Among the new products getting noticed at last week's 2019 Radio Show is an appliance for Wheatstone's WheatNet-IP audio network that addresses "the unique challenges of multiple program streams."

An affiliate research tool developed by Reatro Ventures has introduced a new affiliate valuation plugin. It's an industry first, as the tool uses station performance data and an affiliated product's inventory and daypart parameters to automatically update and track a station's monetary value over an 18-month period.

A pair of up-and-coming broadcast engineering experts at Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned antenna and RF system manufacturer Dielectric have been tapped to make presentations at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium and at the 2019 WBA Broadcasters Clinic.

Radio stations in the U.S. and Canada who upgrade from an older tube transmitter to a new Nautel solid state transmitter prior to January 31, 2020 are eligible for a sizable discount, the company says.

Montréal-based MuxLab has again expanded its regional U.S.-based sales support with the addition of a Midwest U.S. Sales Manager. He has a "proven track record selling AV and IT solutions backed by an ability to pursue and develop new opportunities while leveraging CRM capabilities."

The popular Amazon cloud-based voice service known as Alexa is learning a little bit more Spanish. Starting in early October, Alexa users will able to access Spanish-language content from Univision Communications across all Echo products.

In 2007, Joe Harb opened the doors to Quu. Since then, the company has been promoting technology that enables radio stations "to take full control of the RDS/HD in-car stereo display." It's now integrated its technology into Xperi's DTS Connected Radio platform.

The 2019 Radio Show opens today, and Synthax, distributor of Digigram broadcast audio systems, is on hand to showcase audio solutions designed to help streamline radio broadcasters’ setups.

The creator of the first operating system for artificial intelligence has added geofencing capabilities to its application for radio and television broadcasters. As such, the Veritone Attribute AI-enabled application from the creator of aiWARE can now offer Attribute users additional data insights.

The Salt Lake City company behind an audience engagement platform designed to help grow radio station revenues through online contests and promotions now has integration agreements with some of the automotive industry's top Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.