Broadcasting & Cable News

NUGEN Audio Seamlessly Integrated for First South American Show Using Dolby Atmos

April 28, 2019

SAO PAOLO, APRIL 24, 2019 – As a sound designer, re-recording mixer and partner at Panela Productions, Marcelo Cyro takes pride in telling stories with sound. When Cyro and his team were given the task of mixing Netflix’s Super Drags, the first show in South America to use Dolby Atmos, he turned to ...

Speedcast Strengthens Team With Appointment of Barrie Woolston as Senior Vice President

April 28, 2019

LONDON — April 24, 2019 — Speedcast International Limited (ASX: SDA), the world's most trusted provider of remote communication and IT solutions, announced today that Barrie Woolston has been appointed senior vice president of the company's Media and Broadcast team. In his new role at Speedcast, ...

VITEC's EZ TV IPTV & Digital Signage Solution Captivates Fans at Northwestern University's New Arena

April 28, 2019

ATLANTA — April 23, 2019 — VITEC, a worldwide leader in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, today announced that its multi-award-winning EZ TV IPTV & Digital Signage Solution for Sports Venues was successfully installed in the Welsh-Ryan Arena at Northwestern University (NU). As ...

Digital Nirvana Announces Metadator 2.0, an Automatic, Intelligent Metadata Generator Integrated With Avid Interplay

April 28, 2019

FREMONT, Calif. — April 24, 2019 — Digital Nirvana, a provider of leading-edge media monitoring and metadata generation services, today introduced Metadator 2.0, a secure, scalable software-as-a-service platform for Avid® users that automates the process of metadata generation for production, ...

Facebook Expects to Pay Up to $5B for FTC Settlement

April 28, 2019

Facebook signaled Wednesday that it expects to have to pay at least $3 billion to settle an Federal Trade Commission investigation into whether it violated a 2011 consent degree related to its data privacy practices. That came in its first quarter 2019 financial results. The FTC has been expected ...

SCTE•ISBE Expands Training Portfolio with Carrier Ethernet, Fiber Structured Cabling Courses

April 28, 2019

April 24, 2019 (Exton, PA)—The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), today announced new training partnerships with that will expand learning and development capabilities in the areas of Carrier Ethernet and ...

RED Releases R3D® SDK For NVIDIA CUDA-Accelerated Workflow

April 28, 2019

RED Digital Cinema released its RED R3D SDK and accompanying REDCINE-X PRO software with accelerated decode and debayering on NVIDIA CUDA platforms. By offloading the compute-intensive decoding and debayering of RED R3D files onto one or more NVIDIA GPUs, real-time playback, edit and color grade of ...

PwC: Media Merger Activity Quiets Down in First Quarter

April 28, 2019

After a busy year in 2018, merger and acquisition activity in the media and telecommunications sector was quiet in the first quarter, according to a report by PwC. Deals worth $6.7 billion were announced during the quarter, down 82% in the first quarter. The volume of deals was down 36%, with just ...

OpenAP 2.0 Creates Market for Buying Advanced TV Ads

April 28, 2019

Following the withdrawal of AT&T from the OpenAP targeted advertising consortium, the remaining partners unveiled OpenAP 2.0. While the original OpenAP offered standardized audience segments, OpenAP 2.0 also provides a centralized premium video marketplace and automated workflow for buying ...