A #GALSNGEAR Women’s Leadership Summit Is Affirmed

The #GALSNGEAR organization works to ensure women in media, entertainment and technology gain visibility and facilitates high-level learning and networking opportunities at industry events. It's hosting an in-person Women’s Leadership Summit and other content and networking events at the 2022 NAB Show.

Monitoring Remote Hub or Headend Sites? Check This Out

MonitorIQ RM "addresses the critical need among video distributors to replace the antiquated Slingbox and obsolete Volicon RPM solutions, which provided remote video monitoring at the edge," Digital Nirvana says.

ENCO Empowers Captioning for Veterans Affairs

Since successfully piloting an ENCO captioning solution, the VHA Employee Education System (EES) has deployed the company’s enCaption automated captioning system to achieve the department’s goal of increasing productivity, reducing time to market for its products and services while continuing to deliver accurate captioning services.

Telestream at IBC: Products Delivering Production Through Distribution

A California-based digital media technology company is preparing to demonstrate its portfolio of products designed to "empower production and post production teams, operations personnel, and engineers to ensure the highest quality customer experience while providing maximum business value" at September's IBC 2022 conference and expo. What can attendees in Amsterdam expect from Telestream?

Xperi Expands Vewd OpX for TV Operators

Xperi Holding Corporation used its presence at the just-concluded IBC 2022 to launch its Vewd OpX for Android TV Operator Tier — a new version of a cloud-managed operator-grade set-top box (STB) that integrates Pay-TV services with OTT content.

Focused View Campaign At Tik Tok

Tik Tok has unveiled a Focused View Campaign that will begin charging advertisers for ads that are watched for at least six seconds. It's a topic every broadcast media sales — and digital tech head — should be keenly aware of.

Hearst TV Selects Joe Balkan’s Successor

He is a two-time Emmy Award winner in the Outstanding Technical Team Remote category, for his work on the 1998 Summer X Games and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Now, he's rising to the role of co-Regional Director for Engineering at Hearst Television as Joe Balkan is retiring.
Seth Greenberg

Veritone Names Two New C-Suite Executives

On November 9, the creator of the aiWARE artificial intelligence program revealed that Ryan Steelberg would become its CEO effective Jan. 1, 2023, with Chad Steelberg moving to a role as Chairman of the Board of Veritone. Now that this transition has taken place, Veritone has named a new Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer as it welcomes a new Chief Information Officer.

A Foundational Patent to Improve GPT Algorithms Comes from Auddia

Last week, it shared the news that it has filed "a broad and foundational patent application" aimed at improving what it believes are "the shortcomings" being exposed in existing GPTs such as Azure OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. The patent application introduces two significant improvements, Auddia claims.

Ways to Tackle Workflow Challenges: An NAB Show Invite

You, your data challenges, your unique workflows—and the applications that are most important to you—and the goals you’ve always wanted to achieve: Discuss them with an OpenDrives workflow specialist at the NAB Show. Here's how.
Ron Bizick

From COO to CEO at Vertical Bridge

The largest private owner and operator of communications infrastructure in the United States, headquartered right down the street from SBA Communications, has a new President/CEO. What does that mean for co-founder and now-former chief executive Alex Gellman?

CP Expands Haivision Makito Inventory

Now providing its customers with the latest premium SRT-enabled encoder and decoders for high-quality, low-latency live production, CP and RHS previously employed their new Haivision Makito X4 video encoders and decoders at the South by Southwest (SXSW 2023) festival in March.
Jens Wunderlich

Broadcast Tech Specialist Joins PPDS Global Management Team

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips professional displays and complementary solutions, is welcoming a LED product specialist as the company’s new Global Product Manager for LED displays. He is based in Berlin, Germany.

GatesAir’s IBC Focus: A Timing and Signal Reference Generator

GatesAir, a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary dedicated to wireless content delivery, will bring its timing and signal reference product for broadcast and telecom facilities to IBC for the first time this week.
Saga Communications, Inc.

Saga Loses Battle Over Charlottesville FM Translator

The Chief the FCC Media Bureau's Audio Division has denied an Informal Objection submitted by Saga Communications, and is moving forward with its approval of a modification request from a crosstown owner that will positively impact its FM translator targeting a big college town.