NEWSTECHFORUM 2023

From Remote News Producers To Camera-To-Cloud Workflows, Broadcasters Chase Agility In Studio And Field

Tech leaders from CNBC, Fox Television Stations, Gray Television and Sinclair told a NewsTECHForum audience earlier this week that flexibility and speed are driving their implementation of a range of new technology, from LED displays and AR graphics to more expansive remote production and use of the cloud.

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Hybridity, AI Top Tech Trends For ’24

Top executives from Tubi, Tegna, Sinclair, Cisco and Lawo told a TVNewsCheck webinar Tuesday that hybrid technology architectures and business models would be a major dynamic in 2024, along with an expanding and promising use of generative AI that also compels great caution. To watch the video of the full webinar, click here.

M2A Media Expands North American Team

M2A Media, a provider of cloud-based live video solutions, is enlarging its team in North America with the appointment of two hires. Rob Levesque joins M2A Media in the newly […]

Blackbird’s Elevate.io Moves Into Early Access Phase

Blackbird plc, a technology licensor, developer and seller of cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, announces that its new creator SaaS product, Elevate.io, has moved into its early access testing phase. […]

Haivision Partners With Grabyo For Live Multi-Camera Cloud Production Solution

Haivision, a global provider of real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, today announced its partnership with Grabyo to bring broadcasters a fully integrated solution for contributing low latency, multi-camera […]

Amagi To Acquire Tellyo’s Business

Amagi, a global provider of cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of Tellyo, a real-time live […]

EditShare Implements Cloud Remote Working For AMP Creative

EditShare, a technology provider that enables storytellers to create and manage collaborative media workflows, has provided the migration path to the cloud for AMP Creative. With offices in Dallas and Seattle, AMP […]

TV2025

Cloud Migration Needs Enterprise-Wide Effort

Moving on-prem operations requires involvement from all parts of the company, not just engineering and IT, said tech leaders at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 conference last week.

Dalet Introduces Upgrade Program To Cloud Platform

Dalet has rolled out a “competitive upgrade program” that it says provides media-rich organizations with an accelerated digital transformation path to “greater operational efficiency and resilience” on the Dalet Flex […]

NAB Show New York: Chyron To Show Innovation in News, Sports And Cloud Production

Chyron today announced that the company will highlight recent innovation across news, sports, and cloud production at NAB Show New York (Oct. 24-26, Javits Center) at Booth 443. Sharing products […]

NAB Show New York: Amagi to Showcase Pioneering Cloud Solutions

Amagi, a global provider of cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV (CTV), will be at NAB Show New York (Oct. 24-26, Javits Center), where the company will demonstrate […]

NAB Show New York: Matrox Video to Highlight Remote, Cloud & Local Solutions

Technology innovator Matrox Video today announced its slate of products for the NAB Show New York (Oct. 24-26, Javits Center). In Booth 559, Matrox Video will demonstrate technology that enables customers to […]

Vizrt Completes AWS FTR Process For Viz One Bringing MAM To The Cloud

Vizrt, a provider of real-time graphics, live production and media asset management (MAM) solutions for content creators, has completed the AWS FTR process for Viz One. It said: “Achieving FTR […]

NAB Show New York: TVU Networks to Showcase 5G Cellular Transmission, Remote Production, Cloud-Based Broadcast Solutions

TVU Networks, a provider of cloud-based workflow solutions for live content production and distribution, will show a lineup of cloud and on-prem solutions at NAB Show New York on Oct. […]

Net Insight Sets Reseller Partnership With Diversified

Net Insight, an open video transport and media cloud technology, has entered a reseller partnership with Diversified. This collaboration, the company says, is anticipated to amplify Net Insight’s footprint across […]

Synacor Helps Streamers Enter Passwordless Era With Cloud ID Passkey Connect

Synacor today announced Cloud ID Passkey Connect to end password headaches for consumers, and help service providers and content owners cut down on one of the most frequent and costly […]

IBC: swXtch.io’s cloudSwXtch Updates To Offer Functionality, Performance For Multi-Cloud Networking

swXtch.io, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IEX Group, returns to IBC (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam) with the goal of helping media and entertainment companies migrate high-volume media workflows to the cloud. One […]

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Riding The Cloud At KTDO

NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo outlet in El Paso is the latest to move to the public cloud for newscast production.

IBC: Grass Valley To Demo Cloud-Native Playout X

Grass Valley, a provider of solutions for live production, will be demonstrating its full-featured, cloud-first playout solution, Playout X, at IBC, (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam, Stand 9-A01). Playout X is […]

TV2025: Cloud Strategies For Media Groups

Technology leaders from Sinclair, Allen Media Group, Perspective Media Group and more share their latest thinking on designing and implementing cloud workflows for station groups, networks and other media organizations at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future Conference at the NAB New York Show on Oct. 25. Register here.

IBC: Everviz To Make Its Debut Appearance At This Year’s Show

Everviz, a provider of a cloud-based solution for creating data visualizations, says it is “excited to announce that IBC (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam) will be the company’s inaugural participation in the industry-leading […]

IBC: Ateliere To Showcase Key Operational Cost Savings, Content Monetization, New Business Continuity Solutions

Ateliere Creative Technologies, a cloud-native content supply chain management and distribution platform, invites attendees IBC (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam) to learn how its solutions “enable businesses to cut operational expenses, […]

Al Jazeera Extends Relationship With Avid

Media and entertainment technology provider Avid extended its agreement with long-time customer and global media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN), with a deal that will transition the network’s production operation […]

Virgin Media Unveils New FAST Channels Powered By Amagi And 24i

Amagi, a global provider of cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, in collaboration with 24i, a video streaming user experience expert, today announced that U.K. telecoms, media and […]

TMT Insights Launches Media Operations Division To Drive Cloud and Digital Initiatives

TMT Insights, which specializes in professional services and software development for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, is accelerating business transformation initiatives with the formation of a new division, Media […]

IBC: Imagine Offering Integrated Ground-to-Cloud Signal Routing With Magellan Connect

Imagine Communications “completes a critical connection for cloud/ground hybrid workflows” with the introduction of Magellan Connect, a cloud-routing extension of its Magellan Control System. “A first-of-its-kind offering, Magellan Connect creates an end-to-end routing […]

IBC: Chyron Focus On Sports To Showcase Innovation Across Prime Platform And Chyron Live Cloud Production

Chyron today announced that its focus on sports solutions at IBC 2023 (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam) will feature innovations across its product line, most notably within Prime — Chyron’s software […]

TECH THURSDAY

Broadcasters Rethink Cloud With Hybrid Approach

Leaders from NBCUniversal Local, Fox Television Stations, Sinclair, Imagine and Bitcentral told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week the industry conversation has shifted from “moving” to the cloud to leveraging its technology.

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Hubbing Persists Despite Cloud Pressure

Most engineers feel the cloud isn’t quite ready to handle the dynamic nature and complex timing requirements of local stations, which frequently go live, and concerns linger over centralizing their content in cloud storage in case of connectivity failures or other emergencies. Pictured: Encompass provides multichannel playout services from its operations centers in Atlanta, London and Singapore.

IBC: BHV Featuring Expanded Design & Engineering Services Portfolio, Upgraded Chip Solution

BHV, provider of turnkey engineering services, will be back at IBC (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam, Stand 10.A20) with its expanded portfolio of design and manufacturing services for hardware, firmware, desktop, […]

FCC Launches Technical Inquiry Into Using AI And Other Tools To Manage Spectrum

Following a recent workshop on the potential impact of AI on the communications sector, The FCC has voted to launch a Notice of Inquiry into non-federal spectrum usage and explore how new data sources, methods and technologies like AI would allow the agency to better manage increasingly congested commercial spectrum. This NOI will explore how new tools can promote effective spectrum management and identify new opportunities for innovation, the FCC said.

OPEN MIKE BY ROSIE PONGRACZ

Is Streaming To Blame For Cloud’s Sustainability Problem?

We need to explore greener, more efficient alternatives to cloud storage for video streaming, whose global emissions are rising dramatically.

IBC: Manifold Cloud Set For European Debut

Manifold Technologies, provider of service-oriented software solutions for Tier-1 live productions, is introducing Manifold Cloud to the European market at IBC 2023, Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam. Manifold Cloud, initially presented at NAB […]

LiveU’s IP-Video EcoSystem Drives Viewership Expansion, Monetization For European League Of Football

LiveU IP-video EcoSystem solutions are enabling a full cloud production for European League of Football (ELF) coverage, streaming up to six live games per game day to ELF’s digital platform. […]

OPEN MIKE BY BRENDON MILLS

Transitioning From Ground To Cloud For Playout

Cloud-based playout hasn’t fully arrived with the speed the broadcast industry initially predicted. That doesn’t mean that it will never get here.

IBC: TVU Networks To Demo Its Latest Cloud & On-Prem Remote Production Solutions

TVU Networks, a provider of cloud-based workflow solutions for live content creation and distribution, today announced its lineup of cloud and on-prem solutions to be demonstrated at IBC 2023, Sept. […]

TVN Webinar: Developing The Best Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Executives from Sinclair, Fox Television Stations, NBCUniversal Local, Bitcentral and Imagine Communications will discuss the sticky process of determining what stays on-premises and what functions should best move to the cloud in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar on Aug. 10. Register here.

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Inch By Inch, Broadcasters’ Cloud Production Expands

Executives from Warner Bros. Discovery, Sinclair, Tegna, Ross Video and TAG shared the latest in how they’re using the cloud to gain new flexibility and efficiency, from unlocking AI’s progress to “decomposing” news workflows and building “digital backlots,” in a TVNewsCheck webinar last week.

Dalet Completes AWS Foundational Technical Review For Dalet Flex And Joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program

Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program and completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) for Dalet Flex, the cloud-native media […]

TVN Webinar: Advances In Live Playout In The Cloud

Executives from Paramount, Sinclair, Graham Media, Grass Valley and swXtch.io will discuss advances in linear playout for live sports and news in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar on July 20. Register here.