Tech Roundup

TNDV Founder Nic Dugger and his production colleagues at NATAS have successfully executed a live stream broadcast — and it just happened to be for the 74th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards.

Vizrt's Media Asset Management (MAM) solution, Viz One, is now integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro. This will help enable enhanced capabilities that better coordinate an efficient production pipeline.

USSI Global, the provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services worldwide, has expanded its Melbourne, Fla. campus with a fourth building. With the new space, which opened on March 1, the company has effectively tripled its square footage in Florida's Space Coast in the last decade.

Fincons Group’s Dynamic Ad Insertion, developed with Mediaset’s advertising sales house Publitalia 80, has won the NAB Show Product of the Year Award. The new Dynamic Advertising Insertion (DAI) product is part of a strategic advertising product suite, named ADD+PLUS, combining several Addressable TV Advertising features and formats.

The largest private owner and operator of communications infrastructure in the United States, headquartered right down the street from SBA Communications, has a new President/CEO. What does that mean for co-founder and now-former chief executive Alex Gellman?

The wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group focused on broadcast transmission towers has a new Director of Electrical Engineering. She will direct a team of engineers and technicians and manage coordination between Dielectric’s Antenna and RF Systems departments.

It's a pioneer and key real-time engagement API platform, and as of today it is now offering a Real-Time Transcription product to consumers — an offering Agora believes can provide developers top-notch automated transcription, translation, and subtitling services that can be easily integrated into any app or service.

Supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the newly launched awards program recognizes individuals, organizations, and products/services for outstanding innovations in media technology that promote conservation and reusability of natural resources while fostering economic and social development.

"With the KAIROS platform, Panasonic will be expanding the use of ST 2110 outside of traditional broadcast production and into the live event space," said Spiro Plagakis, VP of Product Management at Matrox Video.

As ViewNexa sees it, the product "empowers content owners to capitalize on the growing revenue opportunities of streaming and connects with audiences wherever they’re watching."

Broadcast media advertising and revenue management SaaS provider Marketron has unveiled a new product that is being touted as a production workflow platform built for radio broadcasters.

With a West Hall expo booth enjoying healthy attendee traffic, Elenos Group representatives at the 2023 NAB Show showed off its QuickBlock Next Generation Transmitter Platform. Its big selling point: a "unique and completely new modular approach."

Owning a radar involves a large capital investment and significant ongoing expense — commitments that are more difficult in today’s broadcast landscape. Even those who can make the investment have frequently had to work through complex integrations just to display their radar feeds to viewers. Climavision and The Weather Company, an IBM Business, are working together to solve both those challenges.

Broadcast equipment manufacturer Comrex has added Peplink/Pepwave modems and routers to its product sales menu — options designed to mesh with Comrex's own IP audio and video codecs.

Ventuz Technology AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, has released what it is calling a real-time graphics software for creating presentations, video wall content, interactive applications, broadcast graphics, and experiential design projects.