Tech Roundup

For 33 years, this individual led the engineering efforts of all Greater Media stations. With the company's sale to Beasley Broadcast Group, it was time for a change ... or retirement. The former was selected, and the result is the rebranding of an engineering consultancy that directly acknowledges his arrival.

R&S PRISMON, the software-based monitoring and multi-viewer solution from Munich-based Rohde & Schwarz, has passed all Dolby Laboratories certification tests. It's a big win for R&S, as Dolby is a leading manufacturer of audio codecs.

Belar Electronics has unveiled its latest innovations for analog and digital AM modulation, as the RF monitoring firm has completed its updates for its legacy AMMA-2. The company says this allows for more efficient operation within HD Radio and MDCL systems.

A leading provider of drone services for "enterprise customers" has refined the way it wishes to work with the entire arts and entertainment industry -- including broadcast media companies. With that, Measure has launched Measure Media (M2), which the company calls "the first nationwide network of full-time drone pilots specializing in meeting the airborne storytelling needs of both small screen and big screen projects."

It's been a little more than three months since Bruce Swail has been at the helm of GatesAir, one of the world's leading transmitter vendors, working closely with radio and television broadcasters on all-things focused on bringing a clean, quality signal to consumers. In that time, it is fair to say that Swail has jumped head-first into an industry provider serving an industry at the cusp of massive change. In this exclusive interview with RBR+TVBR's WEEKLY TECH UPDATE, Swail gives us a glimpse into what's tops in his world, and what the radio and TV industry's C-Suite should keep their eyes on in 2018.

Roland Professional A/V last week took the opportunity to appear at NAB Show New York to introduce the latest addition to Roland’s line of video production solutions. The V-60HD is being marketed for live event production and broadcast, recording and streaming media players.

Mark Thursday at 2pm Pacific on your calendar if you or a colleague plan to attend the SMPTE 2017 Technical Conference in Los Angeles. That's when Triveni Digital's Mark Coral, SVP of Emergent Technology Development, will present his latest findings on the post-FCC auction repack process and broadcast TV needs associated with the transition to next-gen broadcast technology.

The company in northeast Ohio formerly known as Massillon Cable TV has launched a next-gen IPTV service using the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform developed by Espial.

If you're a viewer of the long-running series Shark Tank, you'll know that the question, "Do you have a patent?" is a very important one for investors, and for eventual clients using the unique product. For ENCO Systems, the answer is "yes" with respect to a patent that specifically applies to providing automated captioning by using speech-to-text.

Triveni Digital is ready to unveil a new Service-Level Agreement (SLA) verification feature for its StreamScope RM-50 monitoring system and will do so this week at NAB Show New York. The StreamScope RM-50 remote transport stream monitor is designed to allow broadcasters participating in a channel-sharing agreement to successfully verify SLAs.

That Mexican form of wrestling known as Lucha Libre is going to look a whole lot different — and immersive — Tuesday evening, thanks to its screening in a whole new format from a 4D cinema company that's working with El Rey Network.

Utah Scientific has entered into an agreement with the professional video and production division of B&H Photo, Video, and Pro Audio, to sell its digital hybrid routing switchers to B&H's broadcast, production, postproduction, and corporate customers.

A maker of facility management software for the broadcast, production, media services and video transmission industries plans to use this week's NAB Show New York to shine a spotlight on not only its financial management tools but also its platform designed to ease scheduling, bidding, billing and reporting on the station level.

In Great Britain, media and entertainment group Global is known for such iconic radio brands as LBC, Heart, Capital FM, Smooth FM, Radio X, Gold and Classic FM. As of today, in the U.S., Global will be known as the company expanding its digital audio sales platform Digital Audio Exchange (DAX) with the acquisition of New York-based AudioHQ.

From broadcast TV companies seeking to bring their video programming to hand-held devices to radio broadcasting companies pushing for FM chip activation across all smartphones, sales trends for cellular devices are vitally important for the roll-out and implementation of mobile-first plans designed to retain and capture consumers. That's why it should be highly noteworthy that, for the three months ending August 31, Samsung's U.S. sales lead over Apple has all but evaporated.