Tech Roundup

Avid has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to deliver a cloud-based production framework that helps television production companies address including rising costs, reduced budgets, and increasingly complex workflows.

So, you want to a live broadcast from anywhere in the world and need to deliver it to one of your radio stations. How do you do that? As far as Super Hi-Fi is concerned, all it takes it one touch of the finger. 

French audio specialist and equipment manufacturer Digigram has announced the release of two new sound cards, ALP280e and ALP280e-MIC, as part of the ALP-X series. Available Q2 2025 from Digigram’s network of distributors, ALP280e and ALP280e-MIC are the latest additions to a line of sound cards launched in 2022.

He joined PPDS in 2019, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 25 years in business development, sales and marketing, and general management. Now, many are paying tribute to the individual who served as its VP of Global Business Development and Marketing.

Broadcast Blinds, known for its daylight control products used at broadcast TV stations across the globe, used the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas as the launching pad for a new line of portable daylight control systems.

Futuri Media, known for AI-powered media solutions, has brought to market an updated version of its mobile app platform. Mobile v12 promises new customization opportunities, deeper audience engagement, and increased monetization opportunities, the company founded by Daniel Anstandig says.

ENCO is celebrating its presence at the recent 2025 NAB Show, where it showed new developments for aiTrack that opens its dynamic content insertion capabilities for its DAD on-air radio automation system.

Shure is collaborating with Haivision in a way that allows MoveMic wireless microphones to be paired directly to mobile devices within Haivision’s MoJoPro app without the need for an external MoveMic Receiver — and without blocking the USB connector on the mobile device.

Available soon via a board-level upgrade, the Barix LX400 Audio over IP codec now offers SRT support alongside Barix’s standard RTP-based STL firmware and Reflector Evo cloud networking service. Optional SRT encoding is now available, with optional SRT decoding to follow later this year.

It professes to be a company "powering the industry’s most successful live OTT solutions as well as hyperlocal streaming platform Zeam." Now, Zeam Media has partnered with a provider of AI-driven products for content discovery and media options as part of a plan to increase discoverability and engagement with next-level metadata.

Daystar Television Network has upgraded the audio capabilities at its production studio complex in the Dallas-Fort Worth region with the installation of a custom configured, dual-operator Solid State Logic System T S500 broadcast audio platform and a pair of SSL Live L550 Plus mixing consoles.

SMPTE, the global society of media professionals, technologists, and engineers working in the digital entertainment industry, has put out a call for technical papers for the SMPTE 2025 Media Technology Summit, scheduled for October 13-16 in Pasadena, Calif.

Planar has built itself a reputation as a leading visualization technology company. At the NAB Show, it teamed up with 3D tracking systems affiliate company OptiTrack to showcase a selection of broadcast and media technologies that grabbed the attention of thousands of conference and expo floor attendees.

Roz Clark joined the SBE in 1990 and has held continuous membership since 2000. He served two terms on the SBE Board of Directors in 2018 and 2020 and has been the treasurer for SBE Chapter 39 since 2013.

Traditional linear ads can now be substituted with internet-based personalized advertising — at least in a world where NEXTGEN TV powered by ATSC 3.0 and in a future Brazilian marketplace. That's the key takeaway shared by Mirakulo as it wrapped up its presence at the 2025 NAB Show.