Tech Roundup

Deployed in both IP and SDI broadcast workflows, Imagine Communications’ Selenio Network Processor (SNP) has added new software features that the company believes "enhance customers’ existing investments, driving further efficiencies in production, playout and distribution architectures."

Leadership changes have been announced for two key working groups of the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC), a technical standards-setting body co-sponsored by National Association of Broadcasters and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). 

A new showcase will explore what the NAB is calling "the transformative impact of data, artificial intelligence and automation on the media and entertainment industry" at its long-awaited 2022 NAB Show.

"Streamlining the exchange of data between CRM and accounting platforms, these connectors reduce data silos, eliminate duplication and normalization issues, improve data accuracy, and enable greater efficiency and agility across sales, traffic, and billing operations," the broadcast technology company says.

Europe's leading exhibition and conference for broadband, television and online business executives is readying for "a brilliant comeback" from a COVID-19 pandemic pause. Get ready for ANGA COM in mid-May 2022, in Koln, Deutschland.

The company's new System T V3.1 software introduces pay-as-you-go licensing, while delivering enhanced third party device control on top of advanced AoIP routing technology at its core. It gets its global industry rollout at IBC 2021 in Amsterdam in early December.

The infrastructure supporting live productions is gradually changing from mainly SDI Video to IP networks. That's a result of more computer-generated content, new IP cameras and other NDI or IP sources become commonplace. As such, there's a need to integrate a mix of SDI, HDMI and IP Video sources. Broadcast Pix has responded.

MadHive, described as "the enterprise software platform that powers modern media," has a new Chief Product Officer. He was recently the Head of Product at Telaria, where he oversaw the platform’s adoption by publishers and partners such as Hulu, Sling, A&E, Cheddar, Pluto.tv, Adobe, Google, and The Trade Desk.

When it came time to build and flip the switch on a Network Operations Center for Commercial Radio, the first in Australia, Southern Cross Austereo selected a U.S.-headquartered provider of resource management software to make it happen.

New York-based Frequency relies on data from a variety of third party providers — such as location, weather, time, device type and content that’s being listened to — to build personalized audio ads. Now, Frequency is getting an infusion of Dollorydoos, if you will, as one of Australia's largest radio broadcasting companies is now a minority investor.

RBR+TVBR is presently welcoming the broadcast technology community to communicate directly with key decision makers across the radio and television businesses in our first-ever Winter 2021 Special Report. With this in mind, we chat with Multidyne executive Jesse Foster to learn more about what lies ahead in 2022 for the company in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

The new integration, the Comcast-owned entity says, will provide a way for media owners and sellers who use FreeWheel’s publisher technology for management and optimization of their own inventory to access additional premium TV and video inventory directly through FreeWheel.

With a goal of "powering up the in car audio streaming experience for consumers," TuneIn has inked an arrangement with a major automotive part manufacturer that could make it as front-and-center as Sirius XM, AM and FM are on the in-dash audio entertainment system. 

Broadcast media industry sales technology provider Marketron has launched a new product suite designed to leverage open APIs, connectors and custom integrations. This, Marketron says, gives its customers the ability to consolidate disparate data sources — including linear, O&O and third-party digital advertising systems — into a single ecosystem.

The awards recognize "significant and promising new products and technologies" that were set to be displayed for the first time at the previously canceled 2021 NAB Show.