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What was the preliminary registered attendance for the 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas? We have the official number, along with the just-announced dates for the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas.

How's life for the account executive working at a Big Four affiliate in Hawaii, or perhaps at a NBC affiliate in Bowling Green, Ky.? A host of local sales and marketing pros shared some of the latest insights in a Tuesday NAB Show session that put the focus on community connectivity and trust.

The auto insurance category remains a huge one for broadcast and cable television. But, it is not a Gecko or Mayhem that's driving the activity. Rather, spot cable can thank the LiMu Emu and Doug for the dollars.

A multi-year agreement has been reached that provides Nielsen with "precise glass-level viewership data" powered by Inscape Smart TV data. The deal with VIZIO includes a period of exclusivity for data gathered on an expanded roster of 400 local stations that will be processed around the clock by Inscape’s systems.

The company that owns Dielectric and has played a significant role in the voluntary deployment of ATSC 3.0, empowering NEXTGEN TV and the nascent broadcast internet business, is offering to all across the broadcast industry an open-sourced version of its Broadcast App as "a common baseline for hybrid TV."

Broadband iTV, Inc., which considers itself a pioneer of video-on-demand technology, has filed a patent infringement action against a trio of cable television service providers. The action, made Monday with the U.S. International Trade Commission, involves four BBiTV patents.

He's made a name for himself across the industry for his role as SVP of Business Development and Strategy for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, focusing on the NBC Spot On offering. Why would broadcasters want to hear what Shawn Makhjiani has to say? There are dollars in "FAST" channels, he said at the NAB Show.

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.