EV Brand Rivian Adds TuneIn To Its Dashboard
TuneIn’s existing supported auto partners include Tesla, Volvo, Polestar, Mercedes, JLR and all Alexa-supported car audio systems. Now, it is adding a nascent electric vehicle brand seeking to lure buyers to that list.
TPV Group Completes Its PPDS Purchase
The exclusive global provider of Philips digital signage, interactive displays, direct view LED and professional TV products and solutions has sold its U.S. business to a wholly-owned subsidiary of the TPV Group. It's a move that ushers in "a new, accelerated hypergrowth phase in North America" for PPDS.
Accurate Captioning of Every Voice: A Pact Promise For ENCO
The partnership is designed to enable content producers and broadcasters to create highly accurate transcripts, adding closed or open captions to both live and pre-recorded AV content regardless of the speaker’s demographic, age, gender, accent, dialect or location.
DAX Inked as Odeeo’s Exclusive Sales Partner
Global, the media and entertainment group that had wanted a bigger non-voting stake in iHeartMedia but stepped away, has put its Pounds into a tech start-up that delivers what the British company calls "non-intrusive audio ads" in mobile games. This means Global's digital advertising platform DAX (Digital Ad Exchange) will become the company’s exclusive sales partner in the U.K. and in the U.S.
Samsung Exec Gets ATSC’s Top Tech Honor
The Principal Research Engineer at Samsung Electronics has been awarded the highest technical honor from the Advanced Television Systems Committee — the 2022 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award. At the same time, the ATSC presented its Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal to a heritage Japanese tech company for leadership in deployment of ATSC 3.0 technology.
An Evolution For CP, Red House Tampa Bay HQ
It was a centerpiece article in the Spring 2022 RBR + TVBR Special Report — a Pinellas County, Fla., production facility where streaming and broadcast media converge, thanks to tech advancement pioneered by CP Communications through its Red House Streaming operation. Now, their St. Petersburg headquarters has been fully transformed into a native IP production center.
MeetingPix, GX Hybrid Integrated Production Systems Are Launched
Two new integrated production products designed to meet the demands of today’s hybrid, multi-format work environments have been released from Massachusetts-based tech firm Broadcast Pix.
With Broadcast Targeted for Growth, PPDS Adds To North American Team
The Netherlands-based global provider of Philips digital signage wants a bigger piece of the action in the broadcast television space, in particular in the U.S. and Canada. As such, it has just hired three AV industry professionals to help build its North American business.
An Unreal Engine 5 Plugin for Virtual Production, Broadcast Pipelines
It's a move a London-based technology company says automates essential processes for teams creating professional virtual graphics and in-camera VFX.
Winners of NABiQ Innovation Challenge Revealed
The program’s coordinator, Maria Duloquin, facilitated 20 90-minute competition-style events during NAB Show. The sessions brought together participants with diverse business and technology expertise to collaborate on solutions to common challenges facing the broadcast, media and technology industries.
Steve Woodward Joins Anywave Sales Team
It's known for its line of TV transmitters, SFNs/gap fillers, exciters, gateways,
signal processors and translators at all channels and all power levels.
The company is Anywave...
With IP Business Spin, Xperi Selects Unit’s Future CEO
Later this autumn, the parent company of HD Radio will separate its intellectual property (IP) business, making it a standalone operation. We now know who will be leading that forthcoming entity, to be known as Adeia.
Dielectric Applauds FCC OK of AI-Based FM Pattern Verification
The unanimous Commission approval is entirely the result of an effort pioneered by a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group that took eight months to progress from proposal to regulatory policy. And, Dielectric couldn't be happier.
A First From StreamGuys: A Sales & Marketing VP
StreamGuys' choice for the role brings 15 years of business development, demand generation and strategic marketing experience to the Humboldt County, Calif., based streaming pioneer — along with what StreamGuys calls "a gift for transitioning businesses from technology to sales-focused organizations."
Mobile TV Group Up an Engineering VP
The live broadcast technology company has promoted an individual who played a key role in its implementation of dual feeds, the integration of "Super Slow-mo" across all of its mobile units, and the design, execution and rollout of the first 4K mobile unit offerings. He has also played a pivotal part in the implementation of Cloud Control, MTVG’s remote production product.