Tech Roundup

Come August 19, SET Expo 2025 opens as the largest gathering of broadcasting, media and entertainment executives in Latin America. This year's event in Sao Paulo, hosted by the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering, will showcase a wide range of ATSC 3.0-based innovation supporting Brazil's DTV+ next-generation broadcast TV system.

Gray Media has promoted from within to fill the role of Chief Technology Officer. He succeeds David Burke, who on July 31 formally retired and will continue advising the broadcast TV station owner through the end of 2025.

Deltatre, known as a provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports and media industries, has reached a five-year partnership with Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) to develop and run all aspects of LBA’s production and operations, third-party distribution, and DTC OTT offering.

It's a move that the company says is in response to broadcasters’ growing adoption of Next Generation Audio (NGA) to deliver more immersive, personalized and accessible content. The development marks a shift-change for object-based broadcast audio workflows, says SSL Broadcast Product Manager Berny Carpenter.

Audience, formerly known as Aptivada, is widely known as a promotions and contesting platform used by both broadcast radio and television stations across the U.S. A big platform update has just been revealed, and among the companies eager to take advantage of the changes is Gray Media.

The 10-week NCAB Broadcast Technology Academy is designed provide students with a mix of classroom instruction and hands-on training to arm them with the technical skills and theoretical knowledge required to excel in the broadcasting industry.

StreamGuys has added consumption metrics for rewindable streams to SGreports, a log processing and content analytics toolset designed to help broadcasters and media companies understand how audiences interact with streaming content.

It's been a punishing 2025 for Xperi Corp. shareholders, with valuations down 42.7% since the start of the year. With the release of the company's second quarter earnings results, it looks like the dip — punctuated by a steep drop in value over the last 10 days — has abated.

A cloud-based radio operating system is now in place for a Hubbard Radio property serving the Cincinnati market. For the station's tech team, it brings greater flexibility in ensuring there's no loss of signal to listeners or the FM's advertisers.

He brings invaluable experience supporting indoor and outdoor AV installations across a broad array of markets. These include retail, corporate, and entertainment, with music festivals, touring bands, and soccer venues.

MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems will return to the IBC conference and expo in Amsterdam this September with fresh updates to its VersaBrix (VB) Series — described as a rugged, modular fiber-optic transport platform used by broadcasters and live production professionals.

Get After It Media (GAIM), the national digital multicast network company that's parent to Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Action Channel, The Family Channel, and Rev’n, has a new Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

A mobile unit dispatched from Mobile TV Group headquarters in Englewood, Colo., is offering live production to a Major League Baseball team, a National Basketball Association franchise and a storied National Hockey League club's telecast home, a regional sports network formed as a result of the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy.

Audio-visual tech company Kramer has brought to market it new MTX3-88-PR-PRO all-in-one matrix, a product that is designed to high-performance video processing and scaler-based clean switching capabilities to its users.

Pearl TV counsel Max Larson and Gerard Waldron at Covington & Burling have provided the FCC with more details on just how HDHomeRun depends on a chipset manufactured by HiSilicon, a wholly-owned Huawei Technologies subsidiary.