Tech Roundup

Alpine Electronics of America has made available to all the first aftermarket in-dash receiver dedicated to wireless Apple CarPlay.

Looking for a pending business and forecast management system for your radio stations? Here's something that may be of interest to you, as media ad sales platform creator Matrix Solutions has partnered with Katz Media Group on a new reporting system for its broadcast partners.

The “Most Significant New Technology” has been declared by InteractiveTV Today at its 11th annual TV of Tomorrow Show. What is it? The next-generation broadcast TV standard that's set to revolutionize the medium through personalization and ultra HD signals.

Veteran broadcast TV engineer Mike Keller is retiring after 25 years with Hearst Television at the end of 2017. In preparation for Keller's departure, it's already promoted someone from within to serve as its next Director of Engineering for the Eastern Region.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) on Wednesday urged the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate whether Federal law was violated by the submission of fake comments — using stolen identities — to the FCC net neutrality commenting system.

"Hey, broadcast radio executives. Get on Alexa and Google Home access today!" That could be one of the key messages from an hour-long webinar on home smart speaker usage presented Wednesday by NPR and Edison Research.

A top independent data management platform (DMP) and data exchange has been selected as a partner by a company that's best known for providing TV companies with solutions for ad detection, sponsorship measurement and media monitoring.

Just in time for Canada 150 and the Fourth of July in the U.S., there's a new rep in the fifty nifty and the Great White North for Osprey Video. A newly forged agreement has made JB&A Distribution the official representative of Osprey's complete product offering to systems integrators and value-added resellers in the U.S. and Canada.

Did you miss www.orban.com? It appears the professional audio processing company Orban did too, as it has just redesigned its website and relaunched the famed Orban brand with its original URL.

Twin Cities-based Cordillera Communications is putting the wheels in motion on the broadcast spectrum move of no less than three UHF stations—a move predicated by the completion of the FCC's spectrum auction. Stations in Kentucky, Colorado and Montana are impacted, and brought in to assist with the channel shift for the trio of broadcast stations is GatesAir.

Here's some good news for users of Wazee Digital Core that want to post, revise and/or delete digital video content on Facebook directly from the platform: You are now empowered to do so, thanks to an advancement from cloud-native video management and licensing services player Wazee Digital.

The letter "O" will now be a big part of Mike Nikzad's life. That's because he's just been named COO at Ooyala, the California-based provider to media companies of video software and services.

Bexel is giving its lighting inventory a spark with the addition of 300 brand-new Litepanels Astra 6X LED panels. The new lights will be key components in Bexel's ongoing support of broadcast media customers who require turnkey lighting solutions in any location at outdoor sporting venues.

A new Parks Associates white paper released today sheds new light on the leading "internet of things" trends for consumers as the first half of 2016 — and the end of the fiscal year for many — arrives on Friday. Parks Associates identified 10 key trends impacting the market for consumer technology now and into the next year. Find out what they are here, and if radio's C-Suite can benefit.