Tech Roundup

The Custom Message Plus software offered as an option by emergency communications solutions company Monroe Electronics and its Digital Alert Systems subsidiary is no more. Not to fret: It's been reborn as part of a "major upgrade."

Need an outdoor TV offering 4K resolution for your entertainment and enjoyment this summer and throughout the year? You're in luck. Aurora, Ill.-based Peerless-AV has unveiled its latest line of all-season outdoor TVs with the UltraView UHD Outdoor TV.

When it came to a final decision on a new broadcast graphics package, Northwest Broadcasting's FOX affiliate serving New York's Southern Tier turned to FOR-A Corporation of America. In doing so, this TV station is the first to sign on with FOR-A for a package delivered through an Italian partner.

A new FM/HD radio rebroadcast translator receiver from California-based Inovonics has received the "HD Radio Certificate of Compliance" from the iBiquity Test Center. As a result, the "AARON 655" is now ready for shipping.

A global video delivery infrastructure firm has added a host of advanced media management and scheduling capabilities to its VOS Cloud platform, a move designed to further accelerate the time to market for new broadcast and OTT services.

Artel Video Systems is going global with its showcase of its InfinityLink IP- and fiber-based solutions and FiberLink 4K/UHD products. The two products will be showcased at the 2017 NAB Show Shanghai, SMPTE17 Australia Expo and Conference, Mediatech Africa 2017, and BIRTV 2017. The worldwide focus on its InfinityLink and FiberLink products is in direct response to the transition to the next-generation TV broadcast standard.

The Telos Alliance, the broadcast radio and TV technology firm that's the parent company of Telos, Omnia, Axia, 25-Seven, Linear Acoustic and Minnetonka products, has released what it calls a "major" software update for the Omnia.9sg stereo generator and final stage processor.

There's a little less hope for Chicago-based Sound of Hope Radio of getting a low-power FM signal of its own in the Windy City. That's because the FCC on Monday (6/12) dismissed a Reconsideration Petition from Sound of Hope that contends the Commission goofed in an Order that put to rest the hopeful operator's Application for Review of the Media Bureau's authorization of another Chicago LPFM.

If you stopped by the Inovonics booth at the 2017 NAB Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center and took an interest in some of the company's new products, you're in luck. All are available now, or will be shipping as of June 19.

A Contemporary Christian AC noncomm serving the Asheville, N.C., market has upgraded its transmitter and, at the same time, cut its energy costs by going with Germany's Rohde & Schwarz.

Dr. Richard Chernock, the Chief Science Officer at Triveni Digital and chair of ATSC's Technology and Standards Group (TG3), is in Italy and ready to deliver a keynote address Wednesday at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting.

An individual who has spent three years at ENCO Systems as a broadcast automation specialist has been selected to lead the U.S. office for a global supplier of integrated video production systems serving the broadcast market.

The owner of 18 broadcast TV stations in such small markets as Binghamton, N.Y., and Waterloo, Iowa, has turned to GatesAir for transmitters — and related installation and commissioning services — for spectrum repack needs across its group.

If you thought the smart home gadgetry such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home speak-and-do devices were just a fad, think again. Apple just crashed the party with today's introduction of the HomePod. Should radio industry C-Suite executives be rejoicing over the news? News organzations far and wide are spreading the news like wildfire across the internet. CNet perhaps says it best, with its headline sharing the fact that the new HomePod smart speaker brings Siri home. It also makes Siri, like Alexa, a potentially vital friend for radio stations across the U.S.

The Installed Sound Support iPhone app from Audio-Technica, initially released in 2014, is getting an update from the transducer technology firm. RTA & SPL metering, Playback & Record of short audio test clips, and a needed gain calculator will continue to be key features of the app, developed and updated by Studio Six Digital.