Tech Roundup

At the recent Society of Broadcast Engineers annual national awards, ATSC President Mark Richer hailed the collaboration of broadcast industry players for last year’s development of ATSC 3.0. Richer outlined a history of the standards-setting process for digital TV and ATSC 3.0, and announced that work continues to ensure a smooth road ahead for deployment of the standard and its many features.

A U.K.-based broadcast metadata and transcription specialist has registered as a LLC in the state of Connecticut and will soon open its first stateside office in Stamford by the end of October. The arrival of the Take 1 office on the fringe of the New York Tri-State Area follows the establishment of a West Hollywood, Calif., office and a Latin American operations center in Chile.

Want your radio listeners to use both touch and voice to tune to your station? You may want to follow the lead of both Newsy and iHeartRadio, which on Monday said in separate announcements that they are on Facebook’s latest home video communications devices.

Nielsen's ownership of Gracenote has seen many developments for a tool once the stuff of the music industry. Now, Gracenote is graciously asking Hollywood for its close-up.

TV and video advertising workflow solutions company Extreme Reach is deploying the Minnetonka Audio loudness control software plug-in for their cloud-based operations.

The company's new Chief Operations Officer will be based in San Francisco and reports to CEO and co-founder Andreas Jacobi. She has spent more than 17 years in IP video technology, including nine years at thePlatform, now part of Comcast Technology Solutions. 

ARK Mediacom Inc. has demonstrated the first end-to-end delivery of IP streaming video content, in collaboration with its key technology partners. The testing was successful thanks to the utilization the next generation ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard from studio origination to the consumer edge.

CPG advertisers and agencies are now able to buy connected-TV inventory based on in-store purchase behavior. This, says Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS), means it is now "even simpler to reach the right household on their choice of device(s) with advertising that is most likely to influence a purchase."

The use of digital technology has had a long stretch of rapid growth in the United States. But, a new analysis of data from the Pew Research Center shows that the share of Americans who go online, use social media or own key devices has remained stable over the past two years. What does this mean for marketers -- and, perhaps, for radio and TV sales execs?

In mid-August 2017, before a remarkable surge and slide of Veritone Inc. shares seen across the following six weeks, the AI recognition company's stock was hovering in the low-$8 range. Veritone stock soared to $65.91 by the end of September, only to wither by early November 2017 -- the last time VERI saw a close above $30. Now, Veritone is heading in the wrong direction on Wall Street.

For Northwest Broadcasting-owned KAYU-28 in Spokane, the FOX affiliate would spend a total of 24 man-hour handling syndication, on average. Now, the station has reduced a month's workload by 400 man-hours.

BeckTV, a broadcast systems integrator based in Austin, has bulked up its engineering leadership team by finalizing the hire of a senior engineer and regional VP, in addition to the addition of two other senior engineers.

This C-Suiter at Barix rises from VP/Sales and Marketing, and the company says the change in leadership correlates with the availability of new products that it introduced in 2018—including its RetailPlayer platform for background music distribution. What about CEO Ivo Killer?

A tech company known for its cloud-based, enterprise-level content monitoring and analysis has turned to a design engineer at systems integration firm Diversified to serve as its new Georgia-based Sales Engineer.

Online video technology company Bitmovin is now offering a free online resource for any video content owner or network operator to receive guidance on the optimal OTT (over the top) encoding configuration for their content.