Tech Roundup

ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz has a date with NAB President/CEO and former U.S. Senator Gordon Smith. Raddatz and Smith will headline a keynote session on Thursday at NAB Show New York, with the discussion focused on Raddatz’s experience as a war correspondent and White House reporter.

The Streaming Summit is co-produced by streaming industry expert Dan Rayburn and will be held October 17-18 at the Javits Convention Center as part of the NAB Show New York events.

In response to what it calls "accelerated growth" of its U.S. and Canadian customer base, Riedel Communications has appointed a service manager for North America. Endi A. Maricevic takes the role, and will be based in Riedel's Burbank, Calif., office.

A pro who has worked in engineering roles at Chyron Corporation, Roscor Corportation and Phillips/BTS and later spent a decade at CBS in New York, will facilitate the engineering process for all product design initiatives, develop long-term product roadmaps, and liaise with MultiDyne’s production, marketing and supply chain teams to increase accessibility to products and related information.

PILOT, the NAB's "innovation initiative," has announced it will offer up to 10 scholarships of $5,000 each to current college sophomores, juniors, seniors entering graduate school and graduate students, for pursuit of studies related to broadcast engineering, media technology and innovation. The scholarships will be administered in partnership with the BEA.

The NAB Show is linking up with strategic partnership broker VerticalXchange to produce and host a series of events featuring one-on-one business meetings for television and video professionals with pre-qualified technology companies through the new TVXchange.

PILOT Executive Director John Clark has added three chairs to the cockpit, if you will, for the innovation initiative of the NAB. These new members of PILOT will collaborate with broadcasters to define key areas for development of innovative technologies and services for media companies.

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."