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A broadcast TV company is making changes to its workflows, and Telestream is enabling the shift. An announcement came on Day Two of the 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Amagi, known for its cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has launched at the NAB Show a new and enhanced version of its premium live orchestration platform, Amagi LIVE. The cloud-based product is designed to give content owners the ability to "spin up" channels in minutes or orchestrate broadcast-grade live events on the go.

PILOT, the NAB's innovation wing, has developed a NextGen TV Transmission ID (TxID) table for voluntary use by broadcasters using the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard. The table and TxID codes can be used to identify individual transmissions for testing, measurement, interference identification and other differentiation purposes.

They're presenting what they call their most diverse portfolio of established and emerging broadcast technologies and include such products as fine pitch LED displays for in-camera virtual production to state-of-the-art motion capture offerings for advanced camera tracking.

If you didn't think the Las Vegas Convention Center and various satellite venues were enough for the NAB Show, which made its return to the city on Sunday after a three-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a brand-spanking new conference facility for you to enjoy.

To little surprise, those between the ages of 18 and 24 are more likely than all adults to cut the cord. But, why? And does this signal a goodbye to "traditional TV" — including over-the -air channel consumption?

Sinclair Broadcast Group wholly owned subsidiary Sinclair Television Group has entered into the Fourth Amendment to its “Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.”

The recipients of NATPE’s 18th Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards have been announced. All will receive the prestigious award at a special reception on June 2 at the Beverly Wilshire — the first time they'll be handed out in Southern California.

Category winners will be announced live at the awards ceremony, which will return as an in-person event on June 7. A special one-hour production of the awards ceremony will once again be broadcast nationally on television and radio stations across the country in summer 2022.

The radio and television station group controlled by Apollo Global Management has moved forward with a digital streaming strategy expansion effort. To achieve its goals, Cox Media Group has partnered with a cloud-based SaaS media technology company known for its services for broadcast and Connected TV.

A new "standardized and flexible data framework," in collaboration with some of the industry’s leading data providers, has been brought to market by Xandr — just in time for Upfronts.

TelevisaUnivision has scheduled its Q1 2022 Univision Communications earnings call for 11am Eastern Tuesday morning — just as some 60,000 NAB Show attendees will be starting a jam-packed day in Las Vegas.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) has expanded the existing RFS antenna and combiner infrastructure atop One World Trade Center. This, RFS says, will enable delivery of next generation broadcasting to 7.45 million households across the New York City area.

With days ahead of what Pearl TV, the marketing arm behind NEXTGEN TV, hopes will be a dynamic NAB Show in Las Vegas, the coalition of U.S. broadcast companies transitioning to NEXTGEN TV has partnered with fabless semiconductor company MediaTek in launching a program "that accelerates and streamlines" the path for adoption of NEXTGEN TV.

It's being marketed as "a New TV web platform that brings interactive experiences and streaming content to over-the-air viewers for the first time." And, it comes courtesy of Pearl TV, the Anne Schelle-headed marketing arm of ATSC 3.0 and NEXTGEN TV.