Tech Roundup

GAIAN Solutions Inc. and ARK Multicasting are celebrating the creation of a groundbreaking joint venture set to establish the nation's largest Broadcast Internet Networks. The partnership will swiftly cover over 30% of the country, spearheading the NextGenTV market in the U.S.

Radio technology company Broadcast Radio Ltd. is heralding the full release of its next generation radio software, Myriad 6 Playout, and its native cloud radio platform, Myriad Cloud.

Now providing its customers with the latest premium SRT-enabled encoder and decoders for high-quality, low-latency live production, CP and RHS previously employed their new Haivision Makito X4 video encoders and decoders at the South by Southwest (SXSW 2023) festival in March.

It's a systems integrator and representative for Sierra Automated Systems (SAS) and other manufacturers. Now, it is bringing an individual who has served as a contractor since August 2022 in-house.

ENCO will support all sales and marketing operations in North America effective immediately, and consult with Qimera on future product development initiatives, including new features and integrations with ENCO and RUSHWORKS products.

Introduced just before the 2023 NAB Show, WorkflowCreator allows users to easily and intuitively harness the full power of the AudioTools Server platform, Cleveland-based broadcast audio brand Telos Alliance says.

Starting Tuesday, the ATSC NEXTGEN Broadcast Conference 2023 begins two days of learning sessions at a most interesting host venue: the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. What can attendees expect to hear from Pearl TV, the coalition of U.S. broadcast companies transitioning to NEXTGEN TV, and its network partners?

Introducing the Independent Streaming Alliance, which as of today aims to serve as a "procompetitive independent industry forum" with a mission to proactively engage and work collaboratively with consumers, platforms, regulators, and media. Its founding members include two broadcast television groups.

Introducing what is being touted as the world's "only AI-powered weather service for Radio," with fully automated production. It comes courtesy of a Los Angeles-based company powering up digital music services and experiences fueled by artificial intelligence for radio broadcasters.

Hitachi Kokusai will show its range of HD/UHD and HDR support for high-quality visual content acquisition across numerous AV applications at InfoComm (with floor exhibits scheduled for June 14-16 at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando). Hitachi Kokusai exhibits at Booth 2488.

For radio and TV software technology provider ENCO, "ultra-quiet, smooth camera operation" is the product promise it is bringing to those in attendance at this weekend's InfoComm in Orlando.

Now five products strong, the IPAC family adds the Annuncicom MPI400 for InfoComm, supporting networked intercom, paging and background music applications with elevated security standards. Barix will also preview Dante-compatible applications that bring Barix’s wide-area networking expertise together with Dante’s LAN-based digital audio networking.

In March, a Class A FM owner petitioned the FCC for the right to move its facility to another frequency. Why? It’s tied to an upgrade it wants for a station some 60 miles to its north, just to the north of a town within the Las Vegas DMA. With no counterproposals or other comments filed in response to a NPRM on the matter, Audio Division Assistant Chief Nazifa Sawez granted Shamrock Communications' wish.

One day after Meta threatened to pull all news from Facebook and Instagram if it is signed into law, the California Assembly voted on the California Journalism Preservation Act. The CJPA would require major tech companies to pay a usage fee for local journalists' content.

After an extended attempt to sell their Radio.com domain name for a minimum of $2.5 million, Audacy appears to have pulled the auction from GoDaddy's marketplace. Audacy acquired the Radio.com name in its CBS Radio merger in 2017 and shuttered the brand in 2021.