Broadcasting & Cable News

Digital Nirvana Introduces Trance

October 13, 2019

Visit Digital Nirvana at the 2019 NAB Show New York, Booth N369 FREMONT, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2019 — Digital Nirvana, a provider of next-generation media-monitoring and metadata generation services, today introduced Trance — an enterprise-level, cloud-based closed captioning and metadata enhancement ...

NEW RTÉ AND ACORN MEDIA ENTERPRISES COMEDY DRAMA “THE SOUTH WESTERLIES” ROLLS INTO PRODUCTION

October 13, 2019

The new co-production stars: Orla Brady (American Horror Story, Mistresses,) Eileen Walsh (Catastrophe, Women on the Verge, Can’t Cope Won’t Cope), Ger Ryan (Little Dog, Rialto, Raw), Lily Nichol (MJ, Handymen), Steve Wall (Vikings, An Klondike, Rebellion), Kevin J. Ryan (Copper, Guilt), Patrick ...

Wildlife Cinematographer Steve Lumpkin Adopts Sonnet Solo10G to Accelerate Postproduction

October 13, 2019

IRVINE, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2019 — Renowned wildlife cinematographer Steve Lumpkin has chosen Sonnet's Solo10G™ Thunderbolt™ 3 Edition 10GbE adapter to accelerate and streamline postproduction workflows for his Endless Treasures of Botswana project. The Solo10G played an integral role in Lumpkin's ...

Primetime Ratings: Football Falls on Fox

October 13, 2019

Fox won Thursday prime Nielsens by a mile, with football setting the winning pace despite dropping from last week. Thursday Night Football led Fox to a 3.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In a distant second was ABC at 0.9/4. Giants-Patriots took up Fox’s prime. Last ...

FTC Chair Naming New Competition Bureau Chief

October 13, 2019

Federal Trade Commission chairman Joe Simons has said he intends to name Ian Conner as the new head of the commission's Competition Bureau. Conner is currently the deputy director of the bureau, a post he has held since September 2017, appointed by then chairman Maureen Ohlhausen as acting ...

Videon Products at 2019 NAB Show New York

October 13, 2019

At the 2019 NAB Show New York, Videon will showcase its award-winning EdgeCaster edge compute encoder. The EdgeCaster is the industry's first HTTP CMAF streaming encoder to include multiple-bit-rate outputs in support of ultra-low-latency streaming solutions for broadcast, pro AV, and a multitude ...

Leader Electronics' ZEN Series Supports Sony's 'SR Live Metadata' Decode and Display as a Standard Function

October 13, 2019

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Oct. 11, 2019 — Leader Electronics Corporation, a global producer of high-performance test and measurement solutions, has enhanced its ZEN series waveform monitors and rasterizers with the ability to decode and display the SR Live Metadata packet proposed by Sony Imaging Products ...

SportsEngine Promotes Sales, Marketing Execs

October 13, 2019

SportsEngine, the NBC Sports Group company, said it has promoted two executives who become part of its Minneapolis-based leadership team. Brett MacKinnon was named senior VP of sales and Jody Vogelaar was named senior VP of marketing and content. MacKinnon joined SportsEngine in 2013 and will ...

Creative Technology increases its PHABRIX Qx Test and Measurement inventory for Live Events

October 13, 2019

PHABRIX, a worldwide leader in test and measurement solutions, is pleased to confirm that Creative Technology, an NEP Live Events company, has purchased a fourth Qx rasterizer for the company’s new portable production unit (PPU). Creative Technology (CT) covers a wide variety of live events across ...