Tech Roundup

As part of the deal, National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, was also acquired and has been rebranded as 3Play Media Canada.

He's widely regarded as one of the radio industry's foremost research minds, with years of experience at Arbitron, Nielsen Audio and, most recently, at Cumulus Media. Now, Dr. Ed Cohen is taking a position as Chief Research Officer for the company behind SpotGPS, repped by Benztown. 

Audio research and analytics platform Veritonic has struck a business deal with AudioPlus. As such, the company formerly known as Mapp media is now using Veritonic's audio Attribution and Brand Lift products to help its clients track, measure, and ultimately optimize podcast ad performance.

The BEIT Conference at NAB Show is designed for broadcast engineers and technicians, media technology managers, contract engineers, broadcast equipment manufacturers and distributors, engineering consultants and R&D engineers. The conference focuses on technical issues facing today's media professionals with an emphasis on the evolution of next-generation content delivery systems for radio, television and the broader media and IT ecosystem.

Broadcasters General Store (BGS), known for its radio industry tech products, has added AudioPressBox to its lineup, making Dante-enabled Press Boxes available to its customers.

The award acknowledges "outstanding technological innovation within the radio and digital audio space." To be considered, the product or service had to have been introduced to the industry in the last year.

For decades, the former Arbitron put the Howard County, Md., city of Columbia on the map as a broadcast company rich in technology and research. Now, a slightly different broadcast technology company based in the city seeks to do the same for Columbia, as the media tech and video transport product producer ups four individuals to key positions as part of a "growth-oriented and customer-focused business strategy."

In 1999, a Flushing, N.Y.-based operation was founded to provide a higher level of mobile television production to broadcast and corporate organizations worldwide. When the company recently needed to upgrade from 1080i cameras to 1080p with 3G-SDI connectivity, it chose SK-HD1800 studio and field production cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd.

It's a move Dutch-based broadcast technology company Adthos, led by CEO Raoul Wedel, explains is being done to expand its dynamic capabilities. More than 75 new APIs have been introduced into the ad personalization tool.

CP Communications, the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based live event productions company keeping a watchful eye on Hurricane Ian, is sharing the success it recently enjoyed by supporting HRP Live, a production company that works primarily in the fitness space. Thanks to CP, HRP Live's coverage of the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games at Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisc., was seamless.

It's a Humboldt County streaming and podcast tool designer and distributor that's developed a worldwide customer base. Now, StreamGuys is promoting two staff members to Vice President roles while selecting a Director of Customer Success, a key sales role.

Dielectric has just released a product that it believes elevates its high-power, single-channel applications and adjacent channel combining capabilities. And, it involves a new Single-Mode Filter.

NewsON, a OTT streaming service for local news content largely used of late by Sinclair Broadcast Group, is welcoming a new group of O&O television stations to its platform, which competes against VUit and, to an extent, Haystack News.

The first IBC conference in three years is now history, and it was a good event for Perth, Australia-based codec manufacturer Tieline. The global broadcast tech company, which services many U.S. clients, earned a "RedTech Best in Show Award" for one of its key offerings at this year's event. 

"Gagl could be used as the hub for a news program or for a morning radio show to support multiple simultaneous contributor connections," Comrex says. "Because it offers low latency, it’s appropriate for call-in talk radio. Gagl could also be used to allow a single contributor to connect back to the studio from a computer or smartphone."