WASHINGTON—The 2020 NAB Show is set to welcome comedian Jim Gaffigan for a performance at the first-ever NAB Show Sunday Kick Off event. With the annual conference shifting its start date from the traditional Monday to Sunday (April 19),...
HOBOKEN, N.J.—Broadband usage continues to climb with median monthly use this year expected to exceed 250 GB for the first time, according to a new report from OpenVault. According to the report, “Broadband Industry Report (OBVI) 4Q...
NEW YORK—There are more streaming options than ever, and American viewers seem to be responding to them as evidence in the latest edition of Nielsen’s Total Audience Report. In OTT-capable homes, viewers are spending 19% of their TV time...
WASHINGTON—The White House released its proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget on Monday, Feb. 10, and the FCC has followed suit by releasing its requested budget to conduct its operations. The commission is seeking $481.59 million to conduct...
VAN NUYS, Calif.—PSSI Global Services was responsible for the set-up for an at-home transmission for NASCAR’s Rolex 24 event from Daytona Beach, Fla., to NASCAR headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. PSSI utilized 32 video paths and 150 audio...
WASHINGTON—The proposed fiscal year 2021 budget from President Donald Trump calls for the elimination of federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over a two-year period—a bit of news that has become somewhat of an...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—It would be hard to imagine a more basic subject in the television industry than cable and connectors, as such components have been a behind-the-scenes necessity since the first camera was pointed at the first subject....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Black News Channel, the nation’s only African-American news network, launched today, Feb. 10, from its state-of-the-art network operations center in Tallahassee, Fla., and bureaus around the country. “The launch of...
WESTWOOD, Mass.—Telestream has announced the hire of Benjamin Desbois as a senior vice president and as the company’s new chief sales officer, effective immediately. Desbois joins Telestream after most recently working for Avid...
SAN FRANCISCO—Broadcasters are joining the Reddit community, as a new partnership between Reddit and Tagboard will make Reddit content available for use on broadcast channels. Reddit says that this is the first time it has done...
On Tuesday night, a big swath of the country will be tuned into the results of the New Hampshire primary to see how the field of 2020 Democratic presidential nominees continues to progress. One family that will be tuned in is the...
BURLINGTON, Mass.—In what the company describes as an expansion of its total customer success strategy, Avid has announced that it has created the new role of chief customer experience officer (CCXO) and has appointed Kathy-Anne McManus...
NEW YORK—ViacomCBS is expected to give a boost to the CBS All Access streaming service, with reports expecting the details of that plan to be announced by the company’s Feb. 20 earnings call. CBS All Access, which was the first streaming...
WASHINGTON—Early in the ATSC 3.0 development process it became readily apparent that for prevention of content piracy or unsanctioned signal retransmission, and to enable the capability to run auxiliary subscription services, the...
WASHINGTON—FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has laid out his plan for how the C-band will be used to spur 5G development, announcing his plans to conduct a public auction of 280 MHz of the spectrum with a potential launch date of Dec. 8. Pai...
WASHINGTON—The votes have been tallied for America's Public Television Stations’ new board leaders and members, and APTS has announced that Molly Phillips of Iowa PBS has been elected to the position of board chair. Phillips is the...
GRASS VALLEY, Calif.—To help manage its live streaming quality and workload, Cornell University Athletics has added AJA’s HELO H.264 streaming and recording devices as new members of the Big Red team. With Cornell charged with streaming...
WASHINGTON—Sinclair Broadcast Group has joined the Pearl TV station consortium, taking the number of major TV group members to nine and extending the Pearl member station count to more than 750 stations—nearly half of all U.S. broadcast...
LONDON—Adult commercial impact of linear TV saw a decline of 4.4% in 2019, but if these trends in advertising reach continue it could result in a 21% drop from recent numbers by 2025, according to marketing and media consultancy...
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.—The HPA Tech Retreat turns 25 this year, though there is an asterisk or two when it comes to nailing down its age. The industry-gathering event started in 1995 with the International Teleproduction Society serving as...
This week, Grass Valley announced that they are being acquired by Black Dragon Capital, a venture capital firm headed up by Louis Hernandez Jr., former CEO of Avid. TV Technology Editor in Chief Tom Butts sat down with Hernandez and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google Fiber TV is fading away, as Google Fiber has announced that it will stop offering its linear TV product to new customers in favor of promoting online TV resources, including a new deal that allows customers...
WASHINGTON—FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has presented a new proposal that would provide additional opportunities for unlicensed white space devices to deliver wireless broadband services in the spectrum previously marked for broadcast...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—As a former designer of facilities for creating high-end television productions, I never cease to be amazed by the technological transformation that has overtaken this area of the television ecosystem. Not that long ago,...
WATERLOO, Ontario—CBC/Radio-Canada (CBC) has renewed a multi-year agreement with Dejero to be the broadcaster’s primary field contribution solutions provider and to assist with its transition to IP workflows, the company announced....
BURBANK, Calif.—In less than three months since its initial launch on Nov. 12, 2019, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger revealed that the Disney+ streaming service has 28.6 million subscribers as of Feb. 3. The Disney+ streaming service...
Are you attending and/or exhibiting at the 2020 NAB Show? Yes, April and the annual NAB Show are just around the corner, and we’re doing our best to help you prepare. Along with registering to attend the show and making your hotel and...
LONDON—As demands for 4K sports broadcasts increases, Tata Communications has announced that it has developed a 100G media backbone that is designed to assist with growing bandwidth demands. This new infrastructure from Tata...
LAS VEGAS—Ten startups have been tapped as the first batch of companies that will participate in Sprockit’s program at the 2020 NAB Show. Sprockit is a global marketplace that aims to help connect top startups and Fortune 500 companies...
NEW YORK—Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers drew an estimated 102 million viewers, an uptick from 2019’s Super Bowl LIII, but that rising tide did not lift all boats. According to TVT’s sister...
FOSTER CITY, Calif.—Baby Yoda and other new streaming content increased the amount of time that viewers spent streaming in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the latest report from global streaming media intelligence company...
MONTREAL—Grass Valley has announced that venture capital company Black Dragon Capital is acquiring GV from Belden Inc. The deal, which will be finalized during Q1 2020, will transfer full control of all Grass Valley assets to Black...
WASHINGTON—The future of C-band spectrum will begin to be laid on Thursday, Feb. 6, as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is set to announce his plans for the expected C-band auction that aims to create space for the development of 5G. Pai is...
We all enjoy audio books, but have you ever tried watching your favorite television program muted? Audio is a very important ingredient of any audio visual media. It is that one ingredient that brings the entire content to life;...
NEW YORK—Reported pay-TV numbers among some of the biggest providers—Comcast, AT&T, Charter Communications and Verizon; Dish Network and Atlice USA are still unreported—in the fourth quarter of 2019 were not strong. However, growth...
NEVADA CITY, Calif.—Telestream has announced a leadership change, as Scott Puopolo is stepping down from his role as CEO and Dan Castles, an original founder of Telestream, is taking over that position. Puopolo had served as Telestream’s...
ALLENDALE, N.J.—Of the thousands of cameras on hand to capture Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, a pair of cameras used the latest Telemetrics robotic camera control system technology to capture and...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Global broadcast service provider SoundView Broadcasting recently acquired a PlayBox Neo multichannel playout system to work in its New York City headquarters. PlayBox Neo Multi-Backup Manager is designed for...
WASHINGTON—NAB’s PILOT wants to help broadcasters help students forward their careers in radio and television engineering this summer via its technology internship grant program, announcing that it is now accepting applications to help...
WASHINGTON—Insinuating a connection between Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, National Public Radio wants to see an end to low-power television Channel 6 stations from using analog FM radio services and has asked the FCC to refuse future...
SEATTLE—Heading into a new decade, Amazon announced that its Prime subscription service, which includes access to its Amazon Prime Video platform, has surpassed the milestone of 150 million subscribers around the world. Those numbers...
PHILADELPHIA—With CBSN Philly, Philadelphia becomes the sixth market in the U.S. to have its own local direct-to-consumer streaming news service from CBS Television and CBS Interactive. CBSN Philly officially launched on Jan. 30....
WASHINGTON—Cable and satellite operators won’t be required to lick any more stamps when it comes to sending out certain required notices to TV stations, as the FCC has unanimously voted to allow MVPDs to send notices as emails rather...
LAS VEGAS—Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and more are setting up shop on the show floor of the 2020 NAB Show, as part of a new special area called The Streaming Experience. NAB has officially announced The Streaming Experience, a...
WASHINGTON—A conversational agent for broadcasters from Michigan State University and WKAR Public Media and a chatbot API for music stations from the University of Minnesota are this year’s winners of the PILOT Innovation Challenge, the...
CHELMSFORD, Mass.—Graham Sharp has been elected to the Broadcast Pix Board of Directors, following his engagement with the company in August 2019 as CEO. Sharp has more than 30 years of executive management experience in the media...
WASHINGTON—Digital media supply chains are helping to meet consumers’ demand for content from anywhere at any time on any device. But what do you need to know about this next-generation media supply chain. TV Technology covers that in...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—OwnZones Entertainment Technologies has integrated its OwnZones Connect cloud-native video supply chain platform with Netflix Backlot to enable studios and post-production houses to deliver IMF packages to the...
ONTARIO—This year could be the break-out year for “shoppable TV,” which allows viewers to immediately purchase products seen on their favorite TV programs, right in the comfort of their living rooms. The proof: Shoppable advertising...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.—While Disney+ has already proved immensely popular among consumers, its continued success, and the emergence of other subscription-based services, are key behind ABI Research’s projection that by 2024 the OTT video...