Tech Roundup

Chris Maccaro, a media and ad tech veteran with more than 20 years of experience leading, transforming, and driving growth across a wide range of organizations who was named CEO of Beachfront in 2018, chats with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson about the power of programmatic and why a cross-platform approach remains key to any marketing campaign. LISTEN HERE

MC22 is one of the leading content providers of locally produced programming in communities throughout the Midwest. And, it has just invested in a system capable of playlist regionalizing and automation for all of their channels.

It serves the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula market with seven digital multicast networks and is the home of the WeatherVision customizable local weather service. Now, it has a high efficiency solid state VHF digital transmitter in place, bringing the station at digital channel 13 with a PSIP of channel 7 better coverage of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 

In 2021, GatesAir unveiled its Maxiva PMTX-1 outdoor transmitter series for UHF broadcasters, bringing a self-contained, fully weatherproof transmitter series to market. Now, the Thomson Broadcast subsidiary is widening its product line by introducing a VHF TV and DAB Radio offering.

Frank Foti, the founder of Omnia and the original Chief Engineer of WHTZ in New York, is celebrating through a new audio venture the launch of an upmixer, a device specifically created to take Stereo music and transform it into Surround Sound-quality audio.

Thanks to a security engineer at Yuga Labs, a Sirius XM vulnerability that could have enabled a hacker to unlock a vehicle and even start up the engine remotely has been quickly addressed and fixed. The engineer discovered the startling security flaw when reviewing the satellite radio operation's connected vehicle services.

Spanish-language audio-description/captioning provided by Hearst Television unit Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) and Telemundo has earned an award from the  American Council of the Blind (ACB).

He is a two-time Emmy Award winner in the Outstanding Technical Team Remote category, for his work on the 1998 Summer X Games and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Now, he's rising to the role of co-Regional Director for Engineering at Hearst Television as Joe Balkan is retiring.

The CW Network affiliate serving the Twin Cities is now broadcasting with a recently installed UHF antenna that "reevaluates the traditional stacked antenna array design and brings simplicity and long-term reliability to the broadcaster." That's the view of Dielectric, which this TV station owner ultimately decided to go with.

Why should your radio station participate in what Jacobs Media calls "Radio’s Largest Online Survey"? "Past surveys have enabled us to identify key digital trends including smart speakers and the rise of voice technologies, on-demand audio and video entertainment options like podcasts and Netflix, and the surge in social media usage," the consultancy says.

Wondering how English- and Arabic-speaking broadcasters and filmmakers can best discover and license the footage they need in their preferred language — something perhaps of immediate need giving the 2022 FIFA World Cup men's soccer tournament currently underway in Doha, Qatar? Veritone has helped give birth to a new solution.

The awards honor contributions in digital leadership, broadcast engineering and technology innovation, and will be presented during the 2023 NAB Show, scheduled for April 15-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Users of the platform will be able to use the scheduling and results of major sporting events to create up-to-the-minute audio ads or content. Here are the details.

For a California Representative and a Massachusetts Senator, there's hope proposed legislation that would help sight-impaired and deaf TV viewers will get approved within the remaining weeks of the 117th Congress.

Over four days, attendees listened to more than 35 media professionals and attended more than 65 informational sessions to learn valuable skills and techniques to take back to their media organizations at colleges and universities across the country.