Tech Roundup

Did you miss www.orban.com? It appears the professional audio processing company Orban did too, as it has just redesigned its website and relaunched the famed Orban brand with its original URL.

Twin Cities-based Cordillera Communications is putting the wheels in motion on the broadcast spectrum move of no less than three UHF stations—a move predicated by the completion of the FCC's spectrum auction. Stations in Kentucky, Colorado and Montana are impacted, and brought in to assist with the channel shift for the trio of broadcast stations is GatesAir.

Here's some good news for users of Wazee Digital Core that want to post, revise and/or delete digital video content on Facebook directly from the platform: You are now empowered to do so, thanks to an advancement from cloud-native video management and licensing services player Wazee Digital.

The letter "O" will now be a big part of Mike Nikzad's life. That's because he's just been named COO at Ooyala, the California-based provider to media companies of video software and services.

Bexel is giving its lighting inventory a spark with the addition of 300 brand-new Litepanels Astra 6X LED panels. The new lights will be key components in Bexel's ongoing support of broadcast media customers who require turnkey lighting solutions in any location at outdoor sporting venues.

A new Parks Associates white paper released today sheds new light on the leading "internet of things" trends for consumers as the first half of 2016 — and the end of the fiscal year for many — arrives on Friday. Parks Associates identified 10 key trends impacting the market for consumer technology now and into the next year. Find out what they are here, and if radio's C-Suite can benefit.

For all of the chatter regarding dissatisfaction with MVPDs, the percentage of consumers who are "very satisfied" with their pay-TV service is still much higher than those who are fed up with cable.

The FCC's Media Bureau has set the comment date, and reply comment date, for individuals to share their thoughts with the Commission on a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles request for a waiver of FCC rules requiring the accessibility of user interfaces on covered digital apparatus.

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.