Tech Roundup

For owners of a Lucid automobile, there's one added dashboard benefit that's on the way. And, it comes courtesy of a new arrangement between Lucid and a Nielsen-owned smart radio platform.

This year’s challenge is seeking startups and growing companies providing products that help address some of the key challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters over the next two to three years. The challenge is specifically seeking products or prototypes that align with three new focus areas of the 2022 NAB Show associated with the content lifecycle.

The owner of such radio stations as "Boom 97.3" in Toronto and "Live 88.5" in Ottawa, which has a presence in the U.S. via its audio channels found on such MVPD service providers as Hotwire, has finalized the approximately $46.6 million purchase of the largest in-store audio advertising network in the states.

SKT will operate a joint exhibition booth with SK Inc., SK Innovation, SK hynix, SK E&S and SK Ecoplant under the theme of SK’s 2030 Net Zero Pledge and offer a chance for visitors to experience its innovative green technologies.

Terry Baun, a Hall of Fame inductee with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, died Saturday, January 1. He was 74 years of age.

In June, several Cox Media Group radio and television stations fell victim to a vicious cyberattack. Audio streaming was nonfunctioning for weeks. Some TV stations had extreme difficulties in producing a live, local newscast. The company didn't comment on what was wrong. Now, new information has surfaced as to who the culprit is behind the cyberincursion. All arrows point to Iran.

The PR push and continued quest to convince consumers that NEXTGEN TV is worth the investment enters 2022 on a positive note, as ATSC President Madeleine Norland others tied to ATSC will be in Las Vegas for the still-scheduled CES 2022 event.

It's no wonder that most sound designers were sound engineers. The upcoming Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry Conference (EPIC), a virtual affair, will offer fresh insight into how the person behind the mixing board is both an artist and an engineer — one who needs all their right and left brain power to create the best audio landscape.

An international linear advertising-based video on demand service headquartered in the far north of Germany is launching both its web application and an app for Android devices as it looks forward to a 2022 arrival in North America.

Orban and fellow collaborators were honored for technical achievement in drafting TC Document TD1008: “Recommendations for Loudness of Internet Audio Streaming and On-Demand Distribution.”

"As many people are not attending CES, NAGRA is scheduling virtual meetings to share their news." That's the somber news from the portable audio recorder company based in Switzerland, as the rapid increase in cases of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has increased the threat of lower attendance to the upcoming event.

Called Iconiq, it is a new creator-focused video sourcing and production platform from Stringr that the company says has been "optimized for use" by marketers, brands, creatives, and entertainment companies. How so? They can now source and produce original video content "with the same speed and ease" previously only available to broadcast news organizations.

A marketing analytics and measurement company in the social media space has just been acquired by Comscore. It's a deal that closed on Thursday, and allows Comscore to expand both its Media Metrix and Video Metrix currencies.

BEIT, held April 24 – 26, features technical papers addressing the latest opportunities, challenges and solutions facing broadcast engineering and media industry IT professionals around the world.

He has spent the last 10 years as Electronics Research Inc. (ERI)’s Radio Account Manager for the Eastern United States and has been in the radio technology sector for nearly 50 years. Now, Carl Davis is retiring.