Tech Roundup

For nearly two decades, it has enjoyed a camera technology relationship with the company that recently changed its name to Kokusai Denki. Now, Mississippi State University is extending this partnership, as MSU's University Television Center modernizes its live studio and field production workflows.

A key provider of streaming, digital, data, graphics and officiating products and services for media, entertainment, and sports has announced a series of key senior leadership moves that it believes will enable it to extend its market leadership and impact in the Americas and Europe.

At IBC2026, Softron released the "M|8IP" — a bundle combines Macnica's 100GbE MEP100 SmartNIC with eight licenses of Softron MovieRecorder 5. This, they say, offers broadcasters and media professionals a ready-to-deploy platform for moving real-time video, audio and metadata between macOS applications and standards-based IP networks.

A UK-based company that considers itself an "AI platform for visual storytelling" has brought to market a new version of its live production tools,...

Delaware-headquartered AudioScience Inc. has expanded its partnership with MaxxKonnect, making the Josh Bohn-led entity the exclusive worldwide source for the AudioScience ASI2816 Streaming Radio Tuner, marketed by MaxxKonnect as the "RMT416."

Audio-Technica, known for its transducer technology, has brought to market a specialized microphone with waterproof performance consistent with IPX7 standards. The BP880R Contact Transducer is designed to capture impact and surface vibrations that can add an entirely new dimension to sports broadcasts.

It is designed to remove the infrastructure and networking complexity behind live media workflows, and it enjoyed its world premiere at the recent IBC2026 conference in Amsterdam. Introducing abbe, an AI-based broadcast engineer — courtesy of swXtch.io.

Yaman Coskun, the longtime radio industry creative specialist, has taken a post at BionicVO as part of an arrangement that sees his company become the exclusive business development partner for the company founded by Oink Ink Radio creator Dan Price.

As 2026 comes to an end, the co-founder and longtime Chief Operating Officer at the digital advertising technology and services company will step away from day-to-day duties while remaining on the Board of Directors. That sees the appointment of a "veteran product and technology" executive to serve as COO.

IBC2026 is now history, and among the products to go to market for the first time at the international tech expo and conference held in Amsterdam is a new production tool fueled by Artificial Intelligence that cuts the time spent on video editing and content repurposing.

Boulder, Colo.-based Auddia Inc. has agreed to a strategic partnership that meshes its artist promotion platform and a UK-based music tech platform that "allows independent artists and labels to upload their music and match with professionally produced 4k music video content."

The NAB BEIT Conference brings together media technologists, broadcast engineers, IT developers, researchers, manufacturers, consultants and technical leaders responsible for the systems powering modern media. Serving as BEIT Planning Committee Chair is Graham Media Group Director of Emerging Technologies Adam Simpson.

The broadcast standards association is being honored with a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award by the NATAS for its "pioneering development" of next-generation TV broadcasting standards that establish the industry’s first fully IP-based broadcast standard to reach commercial scale.

Telos Alliance has set its sights on the international marketplace for its newest line of products devoted to "audio observability," and the annual IBC Show in Amsterdam, which starts Friday (9/11), will shine a major spotlight on the offerings.

Telos Alliance will introduce a major expansion of the Jünger Audio flexAI audio processing platform at IBC 2026. The flexAI system adds autonomous live mixing, new 12G-SDI and NDI connectivity, and integration with TVU MediaMesh to its mix of audio-handling tools.