Tuesday, May 12, 2026

NAB / National Association of Broadcasters

NAB Show Launches Annual ‘Product of the Year’ Awards

Companies scheduled to exhibit in either the 2020 or 2021 NAB Show are eligible. The awards recognize the most significant and promising new products and technologies developed by NAB Show exhibitors. 

USSI Global adds to its Executive Team

Reporting to COO Anthony Morelli, he will focus on technology development and systems integration strategies that bring the company’s core broadcast, digital signage, and electronic business and consumer operations closer together.

Sencore Releases an ATSC 3.0 Transcoder

A maker of signal transmission and content monitoring solutions for the broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV markets has released a new product that adds to its portfolio of ATSC 3.0 broadcast items.
Auddia

‘Reeventing Audio,’ Auddia Shares Surge On New AI Advancements

It's the subject of the latest InFOCUS Podcast, distributed ahead of a major announcement from the Boulder, Colo.-based technology company. Auddia, not to be confused with Audacy (formerly Entercom), says it's achieved "a major advancement" in its proprietary technology at the core of its Artificial Intelligence engine.

Uncompressed Video over IP Monitoring: Appliance Improvements Arrive

Enabling both early deployment and long-term system monitoring and troubleshooting of video, audio and ancillary data payload, the VB440 includes new audio features that include support for SMPTE 2110-31 compressed audio, 5.1 and 7.1 multichannel configurations and room meter analytics.

NAB Announces Winners of 2021 Technology Awards

The winners were honored during “The Future of Media and NAB Technology Awards,” a special event hosted exclusively on NAB Amplify.

RadioFX: A Mobile App Partner For A Desert Radio Operator

It owns radio stations in Victor Valley, California and Yuma, Arizona. Now, it has launched a unique mobile app platform for all of its radio station brands as a way to gain more ad dollars in challenging small Southwestern U.S. markets. The company winning the account: RadioFX Inc.

VuClip Integrates Bitmovin’s Video Encoder on Google Cloud

The deployment is part of a new Bitmovin service offering, "Bitmovin Cloud Connect," that enables over-the-top (OTT) content providers such as VuClip to deploy the company’s cloud-agnostic encoding solution on all existing cloud platforms.
PBS

Public TV’s Pandemic Story: Successful At-Home Learning Material Transmission

A global broadcast infrastructure manufacturer has collaborated with a PBS Member in the extension of its transmission reach by investing in a "future-proofed infrastructure" tied to an "Alternative Method of Education" initiative. It's just one more way educational, noncommercial television is serving the community, in particular across Arkansas.

VIZIO Surpasses 11 Million Addressable Enabled TVs

A major television brand has surpassed a major milestone in the rollout of addressable televisions across the U.S. — bring more screens to life that are enabled with dynamic ad insertion technology.

Hitachi 4K Studio Cameras The Pick For Ultra HD Production Growth

With growing demand from its studio rental clients for higher-resolution video acquisition and production, KJLA purchased four SK-UHD4000 cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to meet these requests and set the stage for future growth.

Sinclair Continues its IP and Cloud Transition

Sinclair Broadcast Group continues to lead the industry’s transition to the future of television. These include a new 25,000-square-foot, SMPTE ST 2110 media operations center for Sinclair’s RSNs with cloud-hosted disaster recovery channels, and a large-scale ST 2110 production facility for its Tennis Channel.

Swift Automated Closed Captioning and Transcription, In a Trance

New features include upgrades to the tool's natural language processing (NLP) capabilities that make it possible to identify grammar and style regulations and configure Trance to follow them.
Derek Chang

Friend MTS Founder Shifts As New CEO Is Revealed

A global provider of content protection technology products developed for the media and content owners, broadcasters and operators has tapped a seasoned industry executive as its new CEO. He previously served as the chief executive of NBA China.

With Wedel’s Adthos Launch, An Onboarding Manager Is Hired

Wedel Software has hired an Onboarding Manager for its new Adthos Platform. It's an individual with some 30 years of industry experience and has, by his own admission, held just about every radio station role within that time.