Tech Roundup

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The very definition of "watching" a TV program, regardless of the delivery device, is taking on new meaning thanks to tech firm TVision, which has mastered the concept of attention metrics. What does this mean for CMOs, and for the TV industry's C-Suites? TVision Insights Chief Revenue Officer Dan Schiffman shares the details in this exclusive RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report.

Monroe Electronics and its Digital Alert Systems subsidiary have released "guidance" for Monroe One-Net and Digital Alert Systems' DASDEC users for Wednesday's national periodic test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS).

VITEC, an encoding and streaming solutions company based in Paris, has unveiled what it calls "the next generation of the industry's first entirely portable hardware-based HEVC encoder." Powered by the new HEVC GEN2 codec, the MGW Ace Encoder provides HEVC video quality of up to 4:2:2 10-bits HEVC encoding.

The top players and leaders in the technology, advertising agency and digital platform space will in mid-October once again join together for the benefit of the broadcast media industry at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. The 2017 NAB Show New York will be held Oct. 18-19 at the Manhattan venue, and Artel Video Systems has already finalized its plans for what it plans to share with attendees.

IHSE USA, the provider of keyboard, video, and mouse products supporting long-distance signal extenders and switching for DVI, HDMI, VGA, SDI, USB, audio, and RS-232 serial data, is using the upcoming 2017 NAB Show New York to introduce its new Draco ultra 492 Series of Cat-X and fiber extenders for DVI-D, USB, audio, and RS-232.

Quantum Corp.'s aiWARE™ for Xcellis, an on-premise and cloud version of the artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Veritone, has caught the world's attention — and they like what they see. The product earned the coveted Best of Show Award at IBC2017 in Amsterdam, a key convention for broadcast media tech purveyors and innovators.

CBS Radio may be fading into the annals of radio broadcasting history by the end of the year, but it certainly hasn't given up on moving forward and bringing Entercom brands and products that are refreshed and/or relaunched. That's good news for David Field, who is on track to be welcoming a new and improved version of CBS Radio's free streaming mobile app, Radio.com.

Some hotel brands, including Marriott, in 2016 began introducing Apps on its in-room entertainment systems. Among these Apps is iHeartRadio. Now, the App from the radio broadcasting industry's No. 1 owner by station count and revenue is set to appear in a lot more hotel rooms, and a TV need not be turned on to use the App. What does this mean for in-room radios? We have an RBR+TVBR Observation on that.