Tech Roundup

What is being pitched as the industry's "only automated solution for the entire syndicated content workflow" got its debut in the North Hall of the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas earlier this month.

In February 2018, former Imagine Communications CEO Charlie Vogt emerged as the chief executive of a company laser-focused on Optical Access, Media Gateway and Broadcast Distribution technologies. Now, Vogt is welcoming four key additions to the leadership team at the company, ATX Networks.

GatesAir, working closely with The Durst Organization, has completed the relocation of a New York broadcaster to One World Trade Center nearly four years after its opening.

A founding partner in the openGear initiative has just been promoted to the newly created position of VP/Marketing and Strategic Accounts.

Don't want your TV station's sports reports to be a boring read from behind the desk? Here's something that promises to bring a new dimension to a sportscaster's delivery -- namely, the ability to pause, slow down or replay sports footage while live on the air.

The FCC has launched a new Honors Engineer Program to recruit current students and recent engineering school graduates to the FCC and into the forefront of the technology and communications fields.

At the end of 2013, more than 60% of the U.S. population owned a smartphone. The latest research showed that many of them are actively researching local businesses on the fly. That led Martin Kristiseter, today a senior VP at Marketron Digital, to pen a Media Information Bureau column that concludes Radio, whose audiences are predominantly local, can play a huge role in leveraging mobile to help local retail. In turn, mobile, which is far-reaching, can boost local radio. We revisit Kristiseter's column more than four years later, as his advice still holds true today.

Kurt Rao has become the newest executive at TEGNA, the broadcast TV company formerly known as Gannett. Starting today, he's the Chief Technology Officer for the company, working across TEGNA "to drive the development and implementation of the company’s next-generation client and customer technology solutions."

On the first day of the 2018 NAB Show, which officially began April 9, LG Electronics was in a festive mood. The South Korean company's R&D leader was at the Las Vegas Convention Center and joined the AWARN Alliance, NAB and RAPA, South Korea’s broadcast promotion association, to celebrate the signing of a landmark memorandum of understanding regarding international cooperation on advanced emergency alerting powered by the new next gen TV standard and the Advanced Warning and Response Network.

Effective immediately, company founder and CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan will operate from the U.S. headquarters in a westside suburb of Los Angeles. The move is designed to boost U.S. sales for CLEARTM, and build on a U.S. market focus that came with the acquisition of cloud-based production workflow and media asset management (MAM) applications provider DAX.

Broadcast TV station owner TEGNA and its over-the-top (OTT) advertising services platform Premion have launched a proprietarily-built data management platform (DMP) that includes 2,000 first-party unique OTT audience segments.

TV reception company Channel Master is joining the Phoenix Model Market initiative—the first collaborative single-market effort to plan for and implement a transition to next-generation over-the-air television broadcasting. Eleven Phoenix stations are currently involved with the project, which seeks to develop a method to bring new services to viewers while maintaining current TV programs.

A new series of flagship multimedia receivers that got their first public view at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is now available for purchase from Kenwood USA.

The big news out of the 2018 NAB Show for Germany-based Rohde & Schwarz is centered on the expansion of its media server platform for studio production and playout applications.

TV stations owned by Gray Television, Hubbard Broadcasting and The E. W. Scripps Company now have a little programmatic power boost thanks to their respective new links to ITN Holdings' ProVantageX (PVX) platform.