Tech Roundup

It was introduced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been met with acclaim by those who have used it. Now, a Nashville-based provider of mobile production and audio facilities, along with production and secondary services for broadcast television, has brought its Virtual Press Room into its "second generation."

Since successfully piloting an ENCO captioning solution, the VHA Employee Education System (EES) has deployed the company’s enCaption automated captioning system to achieve the department’s goal of increasing productivity, reducing time to market for its products and services while continuing to deliver accurate captioning services.

Bain Capital is known across the radio industry for its dollar ties to such entities as Cherry Creek Radio and, famously, as one of the top investors in iHeartMedia predecessor Clear Channel Communications. Now, Bain has teamed with Nextalia SGR to acquire a top sports and entertainment technology provider from Bruin Capital.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has revealed the dates for an upcoming ATSC 3.0 Jamaica Bootcamp and Seminar. ATSC is collaborating with the Jamaica DSO Regulatory and Technical Committee, Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica and the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) to produce the event.

Codec manufacturer Tieline has brought to market new firmware v3.04.14. What does this mean for its users? This update supports a range of several new features in Gateway and Gateway 4 codecs.

A provider of real-time video streaming and networking products has won a contract with a NFL team that's now leveraging its "ultra-low latency" Makito X4 video encoder and decoder pair.

Tieline manufactures STL, audio distribution and remote broadcast digital audio codecs. For those outside of the engineering department, that may put a glazed look on the faces of important C-Suite executives. Doug Ferber explains the vital role these play for Radio in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

It's renown for its media and broadcast industry resource management software. Now, the company has a new President/CEO — and he replaces the company's founder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.