Tech Roundup

NAB Show New York is returning to the Javits Convention Center this week, and Thomson-owned GatesAir says it is looking forward to being there to continue celebrating its centennial. "We are excited to show you some of our newest and most innovative broadcast transmitters and STL codec solutions," the company says.

Earlier this year, Xytech welcomed a new CEO, Keith Buckley, who has more than 30 years of experience in the media industry. Following this news, Xytech has expanded its executive team to include four new members.

Sencore, a video delivery specialist headquartered in South Dakota, is adding to its Commercial TV portfolio by bringing to market a 1RU receiver/decoder with an expanded port selection.

Now with a two-day radio industry experience that some would say is the return of a fully NAB-produced event for AM and FM radio broadcasting companies, NAB New York is quickly growing in importance for audio and video content creation and distribution firms eager to further monetize and grow ROI. Perhaps products on display from Telestream will help to achieve these goals.

Solid State Logic is another company eagerly anticipating the NAB Show New York event, scheduled for late next week. The company will demonstrate "the very latest workflow advancements for on-premise and remote audio production for news, sports and live-to-air broadcast."

Digital Alert Systems, the Western New York-headquartered emergency communications product producer serving broadcast media, has brought to market the third generation of its emergency messaging platform.

New functionality includes integrated scheduling for recurring announcements, rotational advertisements, and background music playlists; a REST-based application programming interface (API) for integration with third-party solutions; a built-in parametric audio equalizer; and RTP stream forwarding.

FlexAI is Jünger Audio’s new audio processing infrastructure platform, which supports various forms of deployments on hardware and virtualized platforms. As a self-contained stand-alone solution, flexAI with Dolby codecs is available on the unique AIXpressor audio processor.

Two new ranges of antennas, NGP and NGS series, have come to market from Radio Frequency Systems. It says the new products are "particularly suited" for Next Generation Broadcasting standards — including ATSC 3.0, 5G-TV, DTMB-A and Advanced ISDBT.

As part of the deal, National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, was also acquired and has been rebranded as 3Play Media Canada.

He's widely regarded as one of the radio industry's foremost research minds, with years of experience at Arbitron, Nielsen Audio and, most recently, at Cumulus Media. Now, Dr. Ed Cohen is taking a position as Chief Research Officer for the company behind SpotGPS, repped by Benztown. 

Triton Digital has upgraded its monetization tech, "Tap". The enhanced version of the advertising server platform adds better flow throughout the lifecycle of audio ad campaigns.

Audio research and analytics platform Veritonic has struck a business deal with AudioPlus. As such, the company formerly known as Mapp media is now using Veritonic's audio Attribution and Brand Lift products to help its clients track, measure, and ultimately optimize podcast ad performance.

The BEIT Conference at NAB Show is designed for broadcast engineers and technicians, media technology managers, contract engineers, broadcast equipment manufacturers and distributors, engineering consultants and R&D engineers. The conference focuses on technical issues facing today's media professionals with an emphasis on the evolution of next-generation content delivery systems for radio, television and the broader media and IT ecosystem.

Broadcasters General Store (BGS), known for its radio industry tech products, has added AudioPressBox to its lineup, making Dante-enabled Press Boxes available to its customers.