Tech Roundup

The technical standards-setting body co-sponsored by the NAB and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) have formed a group with a mission to focus on digital information that radio broadcasters send to their audiences via the growing data transmission technologies in use today.

It's been a busy week for Nielsen, which today launches a quarterly consumer tracking survey that dives into the emerging devices and services that are shaping how people are consuming media, as well as the consumer perceptions behind them. This includes smart speakers, and other new platforms for consuming content.

Just in time for the 2018 Radio Show in Orlando: Here's the arrival of "an AI-powered media attribution application that tracks the efficacy of advertising in broadcast radio and television." The company bringing it to market? Veritone Inc.

United Stations Radio Networks, a radio programming, production and technical services company, has teamed with digital content and ad revenue firm SoCast for a "two-pronged approach to help radio stations establish themselves" in the smart speaker arena -- and to effectively promote the use of radio listening via such devices.

Xytech, known for its broadcast industry facility management softwarex, has a new UI that it says increases flexibility and scalability by extending MediaPulse to all of its customers’ team members. 

Instreamatic and music streaming platform Audiomack have inked a deal that will enable Audiomack to utilize Instreamatic’s AI-powered “voice era” technology to deliver and measure voice-activated ads across the Audiomack native iOS and Android mobile apps.

A provider of programmatic marketing software for marketing and media professionals has unveiled what it is promoting as "a unified planning and buying solution for agencies and brands investing across linear, connected and addressable TV."

More than 100 audio apps tied to Salem Media Group properties are now available in the Apple iTunes and Android Play stores, thanks to their build and subsequent launch by custom application developer jācapps.

Looking for a clean and efficient way to get listeners to engage with your on-air talent? A tool used across the Asia-Pacific region and already in use at iHeartRadio's signature Top 40 KIIS-FM 102.7 in Los Angeles is now being marketed to radio stations across North America.

"Ongoing efforts to accelerate the evolution" of its product suite and its business growth have led Idaho-based Marketron Broadcast Solutions to welcome a new SVP/Engineering and Regional Director for Digital Solutions. At the same time, Marketron is promoting its Vice President of Sales.

If you are a radio broadcasting executive seeking to learn more about how your stations can profit from its digital audio streams, its social media and its website, among other things internet-focused, you're in luck. Representatives from SoCast, which provides broadcasters with an integrated digital content management and advertising platform, will be on hand at the 2018 Radio Show and are ready to demonstrate digital's profitability for the radio industry.

Get ready for a fresh new take on two popular broadcast audio processors from a brand under The Telos Alliance. Fresh from IBC2018 in Amsterdam, new updates and upgrades are now available for the Omnia.11 and Omnia.9.

Transmitter manufacturer Nautel has announced three new Webinars, all to take place during October, in which company executives will discuss its radio coverage tool, and AM and FM transmitters.

Among the plethora of broadcasting industry demonstrations and presentations seen last week at IBC2018 in Amsterdam is one that will certainly be of interest to TV station owners across the U.S.

The former CEO of broadcast network infrastructure tech company AXON has been selected to help direct the IP and video networking business efforts supporting product management, sales and marketing at Riedel Communications.