Tech Roundup

A 20-year broadcast media tech sales professional has joined Florida-based Qligent as its Manager of Business Development. He is tasked with developing U.S. sales, customer relationships and market opportunities.

A specialized Bexel business unit that offers competitive pricing on a wide range of new and used professional video and audio equipment, Bexel TSS is currently inviting broadcast facilities and other media organizations to submit equipment for consideration in the upcoming auction.

Attention, 2017 Radio Show attendees: You have the opportunity to learn in-person about the latest technologies influencing radio broadcasting companies and those in the C-Suite. It simply involves attending a 9am session on Sept. 6 in Austin, Tex. It follows a free webinar set for Tuesday afternoon that you can still sign up for today.

A community self-described as one comprised "of more than 90,000 technology professionals and consumers committed to advancing innovation, growing our nation’s IT economy, and enhancing the fabric of our nation through technology" has urged the FCC to preserve no less than three TV white spaces channels in every market in the nation that can be used to carry "innovative broadband technology." The NAB says such a plan goes beyond folly, and could fool the Commission into putting broadcast TV in a perilous position.

The FCC recently asked how it should define "advanced communications capability." As American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Mark Jamison points out, that's broadband. He finds this a curious question, "because it presumes that the FCC should define broadband." On that note, he asks, "Don't customers define broadband every day? Why not simply watch what they do?" It's an interesting philosophy any broadcast media company actively using digital platforms should take note of.

One of the nation's largest privately owned broadcast TV companies has partnered with GatesAir to provide transmitters and installation services made necessary from the TV spectrum repack.

Comrex is now shipping ​ACCESS NX​, the latest in its IP audio codec line. Introduced at NAB 2017, ACCESS NX is designed for a wide range of applications, including ENG, sports announcing, talk show hosting, and community outreach.

Artel Video Systems, a provider of real-time multimedia delivery solutions, has created a Board of Advisors to help guide its growth as a broadcast media tech company. In doing so, it has welcomed its first members.

Automation and video server systems solutions provider Nverzion has bulked up its marketing and sales team by naming a 30-year industry veteran as its West Coast sales representative.

VITEC, the French company specializing in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, is ready to roll out the next generation of the HEVC Gen2 codec for the MGW Ace 4:2:2 10-bit HEVC encoder and MGW Ace decoder solution. Other updates will be shared with IBC2017 attendees in Amsterdam.

In a move that the company says "will improve customer service and streamline internal processes," Riedel Communications has promoted Jake Halverson to OM within the company's North America team.

MultiDyne Fiber Optic Solutions has amplified its audio strategy with the integration of Dante Audio over IP networking from Audinate into its range of openGear solutions for modular, high-density fiber transport and signal conversion.

Broadcast industry player and custom fiber solutions firm Joseph Electronics has upped SVP John Cleary to President. He will be responsible for supervising the company's day-to-day operations and takes over the position from company owner Yohay Hahamy, who will continue as CEO.

This ain't your parents automation tools. As broadcasters transition to more IP workflows and virtualized environments, ENCO is introducing new software-defined tools to its TV and radio automation systems that the company says "will amplify production value while reducing operational burdens."

A company known across the broadcast media landscape for its purpose-engineered antennas and RF systems for TV and radio broadcasters is just weeks away from christening a new 33,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lewiston, Maine, some 25 miles north of company headquarters.