Tech Roundup

A company known for providing OTT and TV platforms is teaming with the creator of multiscreen user interfaces and a company that specializes in the design and manufacture of set-top box solutions to create "an end-to-end" OTT multiscreen and IPTV tool for pay-TV operators and service providers.

Long Island-based ChyronHego has released the latest version of its universal graphics platform, PRIME Graphics 3.0. According to the tech company, it stacks "an array of diverse applications into a single design and playout solution."

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has opened registration for the SMPTE 2018 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition. There's a new venue for this year's L.A.-based event.

Video technology provider Kaltura has unveiled a new version of the Kaltura TV Platform Player. The update involves a new web player and new versions of its native SDKs, developed specifically to provide viewers with "the ultimate cloud TV viewing experience."

Internet radio broadcast solutions provider Spacial Audio, acquired in 2009 by Triton Digital, has formally launched its SAM Broadcaster Cloud mobile app for both iOS and Android mobile devices. This enables broadcasters using the SAM Broadcaster Cloud to monitor and execute all aspects of station operations from their mobile device.

Five key executive-level management positions aimed at "maintaining aggressive global revenue growth and profitability" have been solidified at a company that has taken an aggressive role for both radio and TV in the post-spectrum auction repack process.

New Omnia.9 units are now shipping "with a major update to the audio engine." As The Telos Alliance sees it, this makes the device "sound better than ever."

Now available for marketers and broadcast TV's sales leaders: A program that gives agencies and advertisers the power to run advanced television campaigns against strategic audiences and get "total transparency" on media outputs, marketing outcomes, competitive insights and pricing.

Here's something from Inovonics that's designed to enhance remote monitoring of FM and HD Radio Channels through the dynamic web interface. The product lets users monitor up to 30 sources of FM and HD programming from a remote site over the Internet.

Television attribution, ROI and conversion metrics specialist Data Plus Math has entered into a preferred partner agreement with Verance Aspect, an open watermark technology selected as part of the ATSC 3.0 Next Gen TV Standard, to bring analytics and attribution measurement to broadcasters.

For more than 20 years, Jason Effinger has served in numerous news and operations positions at Gray Television stations across the country. He's also held several management positions. In the "coming weeks," Effinger will leave the company.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has honored a Triveni Digital executive as the 2018 recipient of the organization’s highest technical honor, the Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award. The presentation capped the two-day ATSC NextGen TV Conference at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, held in late May.

There's a new individual in charge of the workplace technology strategy at Sinclair Broadcast Group. In addition, the responsibilities for broadcast and IT operations at the company that hopes to complete its merger with Tribune Media in the coming weeks has been handed to an employee getting a promotion.

In January, file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies company Telestream created two technology business units. Now, in response to that change, it has added to its leadership team.

The SMPTE 2018 Innovation and Technology in Media Entertainment Survey, designed to provide insight into "the critical issues that are transforming the media and entertainment (M&E) technology industry," has just been released by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. The SMPTE survey examines artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), immersive media, professional media over managed IP networks, and the Better Pixels Project.