Broadcasting & Cable News

AIMS Introduces Updated IP Standards Roadmap, Adding the JT-NM Tech Stack

September 01, 2019

BOTHELL, Wash. — Aug. 27, 2019 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today released a significant update to the AIMS roadmap for a standards-based approach to applying IP technologies in broadcast operations. The latest roadmap includes an important addition: JT-NM TR-1001-1, also known as ...

‘Outlander’ Back on Starz Feb. 16

September 01, 2019

Season five of Outlander turns up on Starz Feb. 16. Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan are in the cast. There are 12 episodes. Season five is in production in Scotland. It will see the Frasers fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie must find a way to defend ...

Nexstar-AT&T Blackout Ends After Two Month Standoff

September 01, 2019

Nexstar Media Group and AT&T said they reached a deal that will end a two-month blackout of the broadcaster’s stations to AT&T’s pay-TV customers. The retransmission consent deal covers about 97 markets and customers of DirecTV, AT&T TV Now and U-verse TV. The two companies said they ...

IBC 2019: Pioneering visual storytelling brands Vizrt, NewTek™ and NDI® unite under single purpose

September 01, 2019

Vizrt, NewTek™ and NDI® come to IBC 2019 (stand 7.B01) under the umbrella brand of Vizrt Group – uniting three pioneering visual storytelling brands under a single purpose – to help customers deliver more stories, better told. The Vizrt group of brands will enable customers to master the ...

Sky UK Integrates GrayMeta Iris Media Platform

September 01, 2019

London, August 30, 2019: GrayMeta, an AI powered metadata company that delivers enterprise efficiency and monetizes assets, announced today the integration of its Iris Media Platform by Sky UK across their ultra-high definition (UHD) content workflows to drive quality control. Sky UK, a ...

V-Nova announces first implementation of upcoming standard MPEG-5 Part 2 (LCEVC) as part of its P+ SDK

September 01, 2019

• P+ includes the industry’s first highly optimized implementations for encoding and decoding the forthcoming MPEG-5 Part 2, low-complexity enhancement video coding (LCEVC) standard • LCEVC is codec agnostic and offers higher compression efficiency to any video distribution workflow, whilst ...

Announcing Enhancements To Its Suite Of Quality Control Solutions To Meet Today’s Advanced File QC Needs

September 01, 2019

Venera Technologies announces major enhancements to its Quality Control solutions that the company will showcase at the upcoming IBC 2019 show in Amsterdam (September 13 – 17, 2019). Venera takes pride in not only continuing to provide the fastest, easiest to use and most versatile set of QC ...

Weather Channel Hurricane Segment Sponsored by State Farm

September 01, 2019

With Hurricane Dorian approaching Florida, the Weather Channel Friday will air a segment on preparing for the storm that’s sponsored by State Farm and uses immersive mixed reality technology. Weather Channel has been using immersive mixed reality technology to show viewers how severe weather events ...

Soccer Fields Become Deadly Places to Score Goals in Two Olympusat Original Movies

September 01, 2019

Olympusat, Inc., the TV and media industry leader specializing in Spanish-language TV networks presents Gran Cine, a contemporary Spanish-language movie network offering a wide range of originally produced and recently released blockbusters from México, Latin America, and the U.S., 24 hours a day ...