Tech Roundup

Dynamic Pricing is also a key subject up for discussion during a November 3 webinar for broadcast sales professionals hosted by Marketron.

Radio imaging, voiceover, programming, podcasting and jingles company Benztown has promoted its Custom Imaging Manager to Director of Custom Imaging. Concurrently, Benztown has filled the Custom Imaging Manager spot with a 13-year veteran of Audacy’s Rhythmic Top 40 known as "Power 93.5" in Wichita.

Resource management software company Xytech has scheduled a four-day webinar series designed to showcase new features associated with its MediaPulse 10 product. Each day of the series, scheduled from from Oct. 26–29, will focus on a different feature of the system.

Live event production services company CP Communications, the parent of the growing Red House Streaming (RHS) operation based in this Tampa Bay region city, has just given Lowell Beckner a promotion.

Intraplex Ascent can now ingest and output multiple audio channels directly via IP without the need for conversion equipment, which adds a new layer of scale and efficiency for radio broadcasters managing many digital audio channels between studios.

Along with access to the majority of presentations originally planned for the 2021 NAB Show via VOD, viewers will receive access to the full set of papers compiled in the Proceedings of the 75th BEIT Conference.

Operated and managed by specialist audio and technology service provider The Useful Media Company, Cruise Radio offers vacationers an entertaining and informative mix of music and essential ship information. Thank "DAD" for making it all happen.

The digital audio advertising exchange "connecting brands with audiences at scale" across music, radio and podcasts has selected its new Chief Growth Officer for North America. It's a move that follows Les Hollander’s promotion to CEO of DAX North America earlier this year.   

A company focused on cloud-based workflow management and media distribution options for the advertising and entertainment industries — connecting media buyers to local, national, and cable TV broadcasters and to radio broadcasters — has entered into a partnership with independent Connected TV advertising and measurement platform Innovid.

Broadcast audio processing company Orban has brought to market its new OPTIMOD XPN-Enterprise ecosystem. The company describes the product as an "an easy-to-use, customizable Linux-based processing platform for multiple broadcast stations or streaming services, with centralized control."

One of the leading privately held radio and outdoor media companies in the Pacific Rim has licensed Veritone, Inc.'s AI-driven application that brings real-time insights into data-driven advertising performance.

A programmatic technology provider for the digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising segment has extended OpenRTB integrations to include audio-only out-of-home opportunities to marketers. Is this another worry for radio, as this targets retail audio alternatives for shoppers?

The broadcast media inventory and revenue workflow management company known as WideOrbit has just released a "Total Radio Solution" it believes can bring radio station groups improved efficiencies, cost reductions and, ultimately, higher revenue across the entire ecosystem.

ST Engineering iDirect’s broadcast technology has been selected by USSI Global, the provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services worldwide, to enable the modernization and compression of satellite programmers’ distribution uplinks to comply with the FCC's C-band spectrum transition.

The company getting notice for its technology that empowers "dynamic visuals" to radio broadcasts has just signed up Cox Media Group as its latest clients. Already, Cox's radio stations are using the Steve Newberry-led company's patented web-based software to publish synched messages on vehicle dashboards.