Tech Roundup

Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has been selected by the 2023 Major League Baseball World Champions to provide Managed Channel Origination (MCO) for its team-controlled regional sports network.

The emphasis is through the Radio, TV, and Film (RTF) Department and includes courses from that school plus the departments of Engineering Technology, Information Systems (College of Business), Computer Science, and Music. It is the result of years of planning and consultation with help from the WBA.

The new hybrid commercial creative service for Radio powered by humans and supported by AI founded by veteran radio creative specialist Yaman Coskun is collabroating with a top radio creative shop and an AI audio production platform. It's the latest move that sees technology empower marketer storytelling opportunities.

Inovonics Inc. is no longer manufacturing and distributing its INOmini 635 FM SiteStreamer Web-enabled receiver, concluding a decade-long production run. At the NAB Show, the designated replacement INOmini 645 FM SiteStreamer II was introduced.

Madhive, known for its unified operating system used by local media organizations across the U.S., is introducing what it calls "the first intelligence layer designed specifically to accelerate and optimize every step of an advertising campaign from pitch to payment."

Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), a provider of large-scale multi-modal AI for video understanding, has forged a strategic partnership with digital asset management platform Orange Logic. The team-up "aims to significantly enhance how organizations manage and utilize their video content."

With the NAB Show in the rearview mirror and growth anticipated for its TiVo, HD Radio and DTS AutoStage branded products benefiting broadcast media, Xperi Corp. beat earnings per share estimates for the first quarter by 3 cents per share, shifting from a loss in Q1 2024.  Investors appear pleased too.

OptiLoad broke ground at the 2024 NAB Show with new design innovations to better detect and prevent transmission system failures in liquid-cooled UHF & VHF TV systems. "Those innovations deliver a convergence of passive RF equipment, electronics and sensing that Dielectric as now adapted for radio and less rigorous UHF environments," Dielectric said.

Facilitating faster deployment and management of distributed production workflows, Solid State Logic exited the 2025 NAB Show with sharing an update that adds native NDI to its System T Cloud platform. The company also introduced two premium hardware control tiles to its flexible production ecosystem.

The certification recognizes the organization's Information Security Management System in compliance with ISO/IEC 27001-2022 and applies to its provision of broadcasting services, IT infrastructure and software development services covering Skandha's infrastructure and cloud instances, customer data, and business processes, including IT & media operations.

Super Hi-Fi is celebrating its "first major evolution" of the company's Rosetta platform with the launches of two product enhancements that assist in unifying radio’s traditional and digital ecosystems. As Super Hi-Fi sees it, this gives broadcasters greater power in  streamlining operations, simplifying content delivery, and elevating the listener experience.

LTN counts TelevisaUnivision among its clients, and LTN Chief Revenue Officer Chris Myers says the company's new offerings "reflect a reinvigorated focus on revenue enablement for sports and media companies of all sizes.”

Users can now define study parameters more efficiently, invite collaborators with customizable permissions, and leave comments directly in the study setup process to reduce friction and align on objectives, Veritonic says.

The Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by HC2 Broadcasting asking the FCC to allow low-power television (LPTV) stations — on a voluntary basis — to use the 5G Broadcast transmission standard as an alternative to the currently-authorized ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 standards.

Vizrt, known for its real-time graphics and live production tools, has brought to market a dedicated audio connectivity and monitoring technology product. Introducing Viz Connect Audio, which gives users the ability to manage any and all NDI sources on a network, both visually and aurally.