Tech Roundup

The winners were honored during “The Future of Media and NAB Technology Awards,” a special event hosted exclusively on NAB Amplify.

It owns radio stations in Victor Valley, California and Yuma, Arizona. Now, it has launched a unique mobile app platform for all of its radio station brands as a way to gain more ad dollars in challenging small Southwestern U.S. markets. The company winning the account: RadioFX Inc.

The deployment is part of a new Bitmovin service offering, "Bitmovin Cloud Connect," that enables over-the-top (OTT) content providers such as VuClip to deploy the company’s cloud-agnostic encoding solution on all existing cloud platforms.

A global broadcast infrastructure manufacturer has collaborated with a PBS Member in the extension of its transmission reach by investing in a "future-proofed infrastructure" tied to an "Alternative Method of Education" initiative. It's just one more way educational, noncommercial television is serving the community, in particular across Arkansas.

A major television brand has surpassed a major milestone in the rollout of addressable televisions across the U.S. — bring more screens to life that are enabled with dynamic ad insertion technology.

With growing demand from its studio rental clients for higher-resolution video acquisition and production, KJLA purchased four SK-UHD4000 cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to meet these requests and set the stage for future growth.

Sinclair Broadcast Group continues to lead the industry’s transition to the future of television. These include a new 25,000-square-foot, SMPTE ST 2110 media operations center for Sinclair’s RSNs with cloud-hosted disaster recovery channels, and a large-scale ST 2110 production facility for its Tennis Channel.

New features include upgrades to the tool's natural language processing (NLP) capabilities that make it possible to identify grammar and style regulations and configure Trance to follow them.

A global provider of content protection technology products developed for the media and content owners, broadcasters and operators has tapped a seasoned industry executive as its new CEO. He previously served as the chief executive of NBA China.

Wedel Software has hired an Onboarding Manager for its new Adthos Platform. It's an individual with some 30 years of industry experience and has, by his own admission, held just about every radio station role within that time.

Complementing existing Roku and Apple TV support, a new Screenweave app brings content from Tightrope’s Cablecast Community Media platform immediately to Amazon Fire TV devices. Screenweave apps for Android TV devices as well as Android and iOS smartphones and tablets will follow in the coming months.

The program will provide mentorship and promotion to winning proposals, along with an opportunity to demonstrate their products at NAB Show in Las Vegas. This year’s challenge is seeking startups and growing companies providing solutions to some of the key challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters over the next two to three years.

Global, the Media & Entertainment group that seeks up to 49.9% equity interest in iHeartMedia, has selected a North America CEO for its digital advertising platform, DAX. It sees the internal promotion of a U.S. media industry veteran and the shift of the person currently in the chief executive chair to "a key advisory position with the company."

A breakthrough for broadcasters, Adthos Ad-server harnesses the latest technology to bring powerful ad-serving technology to radio stations for the very first time. Read on to find out how the Adthos Ad-sever is going to revolutionize the way radio campaigns are run. *SPONSORED CONTENT*

As more media workflows shift to the cloud, organizations are building their own custom workflows by cherry picking exactly what types of services they need. Now, Telestream has options for developers to consider.