Tech Roundup

The Challenge is seeking startups and growing companies providing solutions to some of the key challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters over the next two to three years. PILOT is specifically seeking products or prototypes that align with three focus areas of the 2023 NAB Show associated with the content lifecycle.

With V4.8, users can access a choice of Overlay, Stacked and Parade display modes, each provided with the option of multi-colored, highlighted, green or monochrome traces. The flexibility to display YCbCR, RGB, YRGB, YGRB and individual components is retained along with connected instrument cursor linked to Picture and Data View, and user markers linked to Vectorscope.

Audio technology firm Telos Alliance has a new Chief Executive Officer. The choice perhaps wasn't so difficult, as it giving its co-CEO full reign of the organization. Why? The other co-CEO is shifting to a role as Vice Chairman of the board of directors under Chairman and alliance founder Frank Foti.

A growing broadcast engineering and commercial AV product vendor has acquired Georgia Copper, known for its copper grounding and bonding line of interest to radio and TV broadcasters.

Streaming and podcast product provider StreamGuys has diversified the SGcontrol customer experience through a new API that allows users to create rules and customize functionality for a variety of stream management and content access control applications.

Global media and entertainment technology product provider Amino has forged a long-term partnership with the parent of TiVo to support its operator customers on the TiVo Managed IPTV Service formerly known as MobiTV.

Introducing SAS Global Connect, a software-based "NOC" for broadcasters to centrally manage entire network operations that can interface with all components in a broadcast infrastructure from microphones to antennas.

With iHeartMedia and NBCUniversal investing in the metaverse, what should these and other broadcast media companies know with respect to its 2023 outlook? S&P Global Market Intelligence has some fresh data worth a review.

Transmit.Live, a streaming advertising technology platform, has received "a majority growth investment" from an investor group led by a fund managed by LionTree. That's the global merchant bank with expertise in media and technology, and made the dollar injection in partnership with existing investor SC Holdings.

Roku announced the launch of the Roku Select and Plus Series TVs, the first-ever TVs to be both designed and made by the company known for its OTT delivery capabilities, its "FAST" channels, and its foray into feature films with a faux "Weird" Al Yankovic documentary.

SiriusXM-Ready head units enhanced with the satellite and streaming capabilities of its advanced audio entertainment platform, 360L, are now being brought to the aftermarket car audio consumer.

A suburban Detroit-based supplier of professional production, playback, streaming and robotics for the broadcast and professional AV markets has just been purchased by the tech company serving radio and TV led by President Ken Frommert. 

 Capitol Broadcasting Co. is partnering with a Manchester, England-based EV and autonomous vehicle data firm to pilot and introduce connected vehicle data-driven infotainment insights for radio listening measurement.

Nextologies Ltd., a provider of custom end-to-end broadcast video and streaming products that specializes in full-time video delivery to cable and streaming platforms, is expanding its remote production division. How so? It has snagged the businesses of The Video Call Center LLC (VCC).

Introducing the "Granite" version of the widely used product from Xytech, "a new and improved" resource for end-to-end media production. With the new version brought to market, Xytech says the Media Operations Platform is unique in that it cam manage all assets, people, resources, and facilities.