Tech Roundup

NAB Show attendees are poised to see how the portfolio of products at Telestream "empowers engineers, operations personnel, individuals, and production teams to ensure the highest quality customer experience while providing maximum business value."

Automatic Closed Captioning, Transcription Automation and Media Monitoring. All are needs for the broadcast television industry that will most certainly be on display from many technology companies attending the 2022 NAB Show, which starts Saturday in Las Vegas. Among the players in this space seeking to build its stature with broadcast TV C-suite executives is VoiceInteraction.

Excitement for the NAB Show is at a fever pitch, and the association says it is anticipating companies and attendees from across the globe — a not-so-subtle messaging that indicates mega-conferences are ready to welcome international guests.

This effort, the companies say, enables radio stations "to easily sell and create OTT and digital video assets on behalf of local advertisers." The collaboration allows for the introduction of a digital video ad type to vCreative’s workflow products.

Led by industry veterans Christian Brenner and Jim Hammond, Radio.Cloud says it is the first 100% native cloud-based automation, content management and production system. It has been operating since 2018 in Germany, with more than 150 affiliates.

With ATSC 3.0's voluntary rollout transforming the ways consumers can get important information from broadcast TV, the new broadcast television standard is also bringing a new capability — emergency information — in the "IPTV" environment. It's an advancement in technology successfully demonstrated in Boise, Idaho.

Coming in three weeks to the 2022 NAB Show: the next generation of its browser-based, remote radio automation control interface, courtesy of ENCO.

A Humboldt County, Calif.-based streaming and podcast products pioneer that's gained notice worldwide has rolled out a new managed service ahead of NAB 2022 that it believes makes it easier for media enterprises to control how audiences access their content.

Facility and equipment control/monitoring company Burk Technology has partnered with a top audio processing company to offer direct control of its processor from a Burk product.

The enhanced encoding technology is designed to provide the highest-quality viewing experiences possible, for audiences across a range of devices and at lower bitrates.

In the first days of 2022, a Hubbard Broadcasting NBC affiliate it has owned since 1996 asked the FCC for its permission to move to a more powerful digital UHF signal, while keeping its PSIP. Before such a decision could be made, the FCC opened the request up for public comment. Now, Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman has ruled on the matter.

Sophi.io is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform tailored to optimizing revenue and engagement for media companies. It's the newest member in a coalition of innovators, educators and advocates dedicated to advancing broadcast technologies and cultivating new media opportunities.

The ABC affiliate serving Arkansas' capital city is among those poised to deploy the RFHAWKEYE system for RF monitoring, which is designed to provide station engineers with a "comprehensive" view of RF system health beyond the transmitter.

Broadcast Pix has joined the SRT Alliance, a collaborative community of industry leaders and developers striving to achieve lower-latency internet video transport. The company is also adding the native support of Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) source streaming to its line of Integrated Production Systems.

"In this interconnected age, with so many different ways to interact with listeners, broadcasters need tools to facilitate the retrieval, processing and delivery of increasingly complex data streams," the company said.