Smart Home Devices: No Longer A ‘Novelty’ As Holidays Near
Still not convinced that the Amazon Echo or Google Home are more than just fads and that their growing presence in U.S. households isn't important to the radio broadcasting industry? A new report from Futuresource Consulting indicates that the smart home market will be worth $6 billion by the end of 2017, and it's rising fast.
Triveni Digital’s Chernock To Address IEEE On ATSC 3.0
One of the nation's foremost experts on ATSC 3.0 standards and implementation has been booked to speak about the overall technical and practical aspects of ATSC 3.0 at the 2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium. The discussion will follow a presentation on channel sharing -- and the PSIP and ATSC 3.0 considerations tied to CSAs -- from the SVP/Engineering at Triveni Digital.
FM Tower’s Hidden Power: The Industry’s Midas Moment?
The radio industry could be sitting on a profit-making goldmine. Beasley Broadcasting Group CEO Caroline Beasley sees the potential. Now, the FCC Chairman during the Reagan Administration is ready to make a big splash with a technology that can give HD Radio a boost -- and make FM radio a powerful tool in the growth of "IoT." Read more in this exclusive RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report now available to Tech readers.
More Than 200 iHeart Stations Get An ‘AI’ Boost
One of the nation's fastest growing artificial intelligence (AI) providers has signed an expanded, two-year agreement with the nation's top radio broadcasting company. The wider agreement allows iHeart to use the Veritone AI platform at more than 200 radio stations in the nation's top 50 markets.
Quantum Ready To Release StorNext 6 Updates
A series of "substantive updates" within the StorNext 6 platform are on tap from workflow-optimized storage technologies and data management solutions firm Quantum. Ahead of the 2017 NAB Show New York, Quantum's updates to the platform include a new quality of service (QoS) feature that empowers facilities to tune and optimize performance across all client workstations, and on a machine-by-machine basis.
Broadpeak Integrates Multicast Technology With OTT Gateway
Fresh off its presence in Amsterdam at IBC2017, content delivery network provider Broadpeak has successfully integrated its nanoCDN multicast ABR technology with the SmarDTV Hotspot, a OTT gateway tailored to streamline the delivery of live TV and VOD on mobile devices in low-connectivity areas.
PBS Makes a ‘CLEAR’ Choice For Its Network Ops Center
The flagship product from Prime Focus Technologies has been selected by PBS to enhance its Network Operations Center ecosystem efficiencies and sustainability. The decision was based on one clear objective — reducing operational costs for content providers by migrating content delivery, initial QC and transcoding operations to the cloud.
ERI Bumps Up Benco To Bigger Sales Role
There is a new VP of U.S. Sales at Electronics Research Inc., and the company's choice to fill the position has two decades of experience in terrestrial broadcasting, mobile television, distributed transmission systems, and FM radio. He was previously the company's Director of Television Sales.
AJA Recorders, Storage Cards Added To Bexel’s Offerings
The broadcast services company has added AJA Ki Pro Ultra Plus multichannel recorders and AJA Pak Media PAK1000 1 terabyte solid-state drives (SSDs) to its rental inventory. The products are designed to offer redundant high-quality recording and storage capabilities for all sizes of production and any type of workflow.
Dish Delivers ‘Whole-Home’ 4K Netflix Experience
DISH Network is giving its subscribers a whole new way to experience some Stranger Things or take a trip to Ozark. The DBS provider on Friday began offering a whole-home 4K Netflix experience to its customers.
Apple Bites: No FM Chips In Latest iPhone Models
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday issued a plea to Apple to activate the FM chips it has in its iPhones. There's just one small problem, Apple noted on Friday: All iPhones newer than the iPhone 6 don't have FM radio chips in them, nor do they have antennas designed to pull in FM radio signals. We've got an RBR+TVBR Observation on the subject, which is sure to fire up all radio broadcasting company owners and managers.
Veritone Gives Back, In A Big Way
Is AI tech company Veritone, which is increasingly working with broadcast media companies, overheated on Wall Street? One investment house says yes, resulting in a huge plunge in share value after an exceptional month of growth. Veritone stock continued to fall back to Earth on Thursday, and shares have lost half their value since Wednesday's Opening Bell.
Local TV Has A Billion-Dollar Social Opportunity, Study Shows
Can social media bring new revenue streams for broadcast media, in particular TV stations with digitally active news departments? You bet, says broadcast media social media ratings firm Share Rocket. There's billions of dollars to be had, they say.
Visual IQ Scooped Up By Nielsen
The nation's dominant ratings and consumer data provider has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an independently owned provider of multi-touch attribution (MTA) modeling of advertising on digital platforms designed to improve ROI for brand marketers. The deal is expected to close in October, and the price was not disclosed.
Sirius XM Formally Grabs A Piece Of Pandora
On Friday, as the Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust waiting period expired, the additional closing of a big investment in Pandora by Sirius XM took place. This involved the $1 per share sale to Sirius XM of hundreds of thousands of Pandora shares. Pandora revealed the stock sale in an SEC filing made late Tuesday, which also confirmed the addition to Pandora's board three key Sirius XM executives.