Tech Roundup

Sencore, a video delivery specialist headquartered in South Dakota, is adding to its Commercial TV portfolio by bringing to market a 1RU receiver/decoder with an expanded port selection.

Now with a two-day radio industry experience that some would say is the return of a fully NAB-produced event for AM and FM radio broadcasting companies, NAB New York is quickly growing in importance for audio and video content creation and distribution firms eager to further monetize and grow ROI. Perhaps products on display from Telestream will help to achieve these goals.

Solid State Logic is another company eagerly anticipating the NAB Show New York event, scheduled for late next week. The company will demonstrate "the very latest workflow advancements for on-premise and remote audio production for news, sports and live-to-air broadcast."

Digital Alert Systems, the Western New York-headquartered emergency communications product producer serving broadcast media, has brought to market the third generation of its emergency messaging platform.

New functionality includes integrated scheduling for recurring announcements, rotational advertisements, and background music playlists; a REST-based application programming interface (API) for integration with third-party solutions; a built-in parametric audio equalizer; and RTP stream forwarding.

FlexAI is Jünger Audio’s new audio processing infrastructure platform, which supports various forms of deployments on hardware and virtualized platforms. As a self-contained stand-alone solution, flexAI with Dolby codecs is available on the unique AIXpressor audio processor.

Two new ranges of antennas, NGP and NGS series, have come to market from Radio Frequency Systems. It says the new products are "particularly suited" for Next Generation Broadcasting standards — including ATSC 3.0, 5G-TV, DTMB-A and Advanced ISDBT.

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.