Tech Roundup

When it came time for the TV operation to decide how to bring guests on to their live broadcast production programs in a high-quality way, a privately owned television station serving a French-governed island off the coast of East Africa adopted for a product courtesy of U.K.-based Quicklink.

A Class A noncommercial FM serving Grand Rapids recently encountered severe damage to their transmitter site, as powerful storms battered Western Michigan. “One of the 1kW transmitters that we use for our station in downtown Grand Rapids went down,” said Klay Woodworth, Director of Broadcasting for Blue Lake Public Radio. Helping them return to the air: Broadcast Electronics.

The 2023 NAB Show is collaborating with StoryTech to launch three unique attendees tour experiences at this year's event in Las Vegas. The tours explore three central themes: managing data, innovation in virtual production and the evolution of video. 

On November 9, the creator of the aiWARE artificial intelligence program revealed that Ryan Steelberg would become its CEO effective Jan. 1, 2023, with Chad Steelberg moving to a role as Chairman of the Board of Veritone. Now that this transition has taken place, Veritone has named a new Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer as it welcomes a new Chief Information Officer.

In a move the company believes will "bolster their commitment to providing best-in-class data and technology to brands, agencies, and platforms around the world that are leveraging audio as part of their marketing strategy," Veritonic has hired a trio of sales directors while welcoming a new Head of Product at its New York-headquartered operations.

It's a Northern California-headquartered tech company known for products focused on workflow automation, media processing, video quality monitoring, and test and synchronization products for the production and distribution of video. As of today, it has a new SVP of Marketing.

Western Australia-headquartered Tieline the Codec Company has brought to market a HTML5 TieServer Web Console management tool. Its primary purpose? To register networked codecs to a TieServer domain and configure and control Report-IT user accounts.

It's a SaaS video platform used by broadcasters and digital publishers. And, it has just agreed to purchase a provider of subscription management and identity management technology for an undisclosed price.

It's gained a reputation for designing and manufacturing such broadcast products as transmitters for radio and television stations as well as media software systems. Now Elenos Group has attracted attention for its naming of a new President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for operations in the Americas.

It was officially brought to market at the 2022 NAB Show. The latest Comrex model in its IP audio codec line features a new, more powerful processor for improved reliability in addition to enhanced front panel indicators, including four buttons which will trigger contact closures by default and are configurable for auto-connections to other Comrex IP audio codecs.

The Challenge is seeking startups and growing companies providing solutions to some of the key challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters over the next two to three years. PILOT is specifically seeking products or prototypes that align with three focus areas of the 2023 NAB Show associated with the content lifecycle.

With V4.8, users can access a choice of Overlay, Stacked and Parade display modes, each provided with the option of multi-colored, highlighted, green or monochrome traces. The flexibility to display YCbCR, RGB, YRGB, YGRB and individual components is retained along with connected instrument cursor linked to Picture and Data View, and user markers linked to Vectorscope.

Audio technology firm Telos Alliance has a new Chief Executive Officer. The choice perhaps wasn't so difficult, as it giving its co-CEO full reign of the organization. Why? The other co-CEO is shifting to a role as Vice Chairman of the board of directors under Chairman and alliance founder Frank Foti.

A growing broadcast engineering and commercial AV product vendor has acquired Georgia Copper, known for its copper grounding and bonding line of interest to radio and TV broadcasters.

Streaming and podcast product provider StreamGuys has diversified the SGcontrol customer experience through a new API that allows users to create rules and customize functionality for a variety of stream management and content access control applications.