Tech Roundup

It has made a name for itself thanks to its video on demand and live streaming products. Now, Wowza has hired a Chief Technology Officer, a Chief Revenue Officer and a VP of Marketing as "significant growth and product innovation" have become the hallmarks of a successful year for the Denver-based operation.

GatesAir, now a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary, will supply a big amount of Flexiva FM transmitters as part of a turnkey deal for phase one of a transition that also includes the supply and installation of antennas, towers, auxiliary RF systems and studio digitization across the African nation.

Telestream, a media technology company focused on products for workflow automation, media processing, video quality monitoring, and test and synchronization for the production and distribution of video, has brought to market the latest version of its Lightspeed Live Capture multi-channel on-premise ingest product.

The company, today comprised of divisions Carousel Digital Signage and Cablecast Community Media, was founded with the goal of innovating for underserved broadcast and media technology market segments.

A new marketing and insights report released by Audacy shows the majority of young people born over the last decade are attentive when using smart speakers like those powered by Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or the Google Assistant.

Chris Maccaro, a media and ad tech veteran with more than 20 years of experience leading, transforming, and driving growth across a wide range of organizations who was named CEO of Beachfront in 2018, chats with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson about the power of programmatic and why a cross-platform approach remains key to any marketing campaign. LISTEN HERE

MC22 is one of the leading content providers of locally produced programming in communities throughout the Midwest. And, it has just invested in a system capable of playlist regionalizing and automation for all of their channels.

It serves the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula market with seven digital multicast networks and is the home of the WeatherVision customizable local weather service. Now, it has a high efficiency solid state VHF digital transmitter in place, bringing the station at digital channel 13 with a PSIP of channel 7 better coverage of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 

In 2021, GatesAir unveiled its Maxiva PMTX-1 outdoor transmitter series for UHF broadcasters, bringing a self-contained, fully weatherproof transmitter series to market. Now, the Thomson Broadcast subsidiary is widening its product line by introducing a VHF TV and DAB Radio offering.

Frank Foti, the founder of Omnia and the original Chief Engineer of WHTZ in New York, is celebrating through a new audio venture the launch of an upmixer, a device specifically created to take Stereo music and transform it into Surround Sound-quality audio.

Thanks to a security engineer at Yuga Labs, a Sirius XM vulnerability that could have enabled a hacker to unlock a vehicle and even start up the engine remotely has been quickly addressed and fixed. The engineer discovered the startling security flaw when reviewing the satellite radio operation's connected vehicle services.

Spanish-language audio-description/captioning provided by Hearst Television unit Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) and Telemundo has earned an award from the  American Council of the Blind (ACB).

He is a two-time Emmy Award winner in the Outstanding Technical Team Remote category, for his work on the 1998 Summer X Games and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Now, he's rising to the role of co-Regional Director for Engineering at Hearst Television as Joe Balkan is retiring.

The CW Network affiliate serving the Twin Cities is now broadcasting with a recently installed UHF antenna that "reevaluates the traditional stacked antenna array design and brings simplicity and long-term reliability to the broadcaster." That's the view of Dielectric, which this TV station owner ultimately decided to go with.

Why should your radio station participate in what Jacobs Media calls "Radio’s Largest Online Survey"? "Past surveys have enabled us to identify key digital trends including smart speakers and the rise of voice technologies, on-demand audio and video entertainment options like podcasts and Netflix, and the surge in social media usage," the consultancy says.