Rogers Media Builds UHD Master Control With SAM March 17^th 2016 - 01:00 PM

Last year Rogers Media CEO, Guy Lawrence, announced that the company were to debut baseball in 4K and HDR, starting with 81 MLB home games of the Toronto Blue Jays. Rogers own the team, with home base at the Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada, formerly the SkyDome. The Canadian media company, part…

LATV Streamlines Playout with OASYS March 7^th 2016 - 05:00 PM

LA-based media company will no longer double-up on master control operations as they move to a single OASYS playout platform.

Broadpeak Teams Up with NexStreaming to Improve OTT Multiscreen Experience February 25^th 2016 - 09:00 AM

French video delivery technology vendor Broadpeak has partnered with South Korean mobile software company NexStreaming over OTT multiscreen delivery. Broadpeak’s BkS350 origin server, BkS400 video cache server, and BkA100 analytics tool have been integrated with the NexStreaming NexPlayer SDK to assemble an end-to-end package optimized for quality of experience (Q…

Etere ETX CIB Integrates 4K February 17^th 2016 - 06:00 PM

Etere channel-in-a-box ETX customers receive a free upgrade to 4K.

B4U Television Network Migrates Global Operations to Amagi’s Cloud-Based Broadcast Platform February 15^th 2016 - 05:00 PM

The B4U Television Network has chosen Amagi’s CLOUDPORT 2.0 channel playout platform for its global operations. The Amag next-generation cloud-based solution provides B4U with increased flexibility, efficiency and protection against future obsolescence.

Trilogy Supports All-IP Live Broadcast Production February 9^th 2016 - 01:00 PM

Trilogy is trumpeting its role as one of a group of industry partners who supported the European Broadcast Union (EBU) and Belgian public broadcaster VRT’s remote production of a live music concert on 15 January. This used IP across the entire production chain, demonstrating, it says, the capabilities and the b…

Is Cloud Playout Ready For Primetime? Pixel Power Has A View January 25^th 2016 - 08:30 AM

The decision to move to the cloud, therefore, is not technical. It is a business decision. What are the relative costs, in terms of capital expenditure, operational expenditure and the availability of suitable support staff? What service level agreement can you get from a cloud provider? How practical and reliable…

Navigating the Shift Toward IP-Based Playout January 22^nd 2016 - 07:00 AM

The pressure to reduce the TCO of today’s SDI broadcast infrastructures makes an all IP infrastructure solution appealing. But to reach that goal, a facility needs to leverage existing technology with new software-based media processing applications on COTS servers. Here are some suggested steps.

Imagine Expands Partnership With HP Enterprise For Large-Scale IP-Based Deployments January 21^st 2016 - 05:05 PM

In April of 2015, Imagine Communications made news by announcing a new joint technology distribution agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the commercial division of the major computer (and printers) maker, targeting large multi-distribution accounts in both the media/entertainment and corporate video space. It lent certain credibility to Imagine’s d…

KITV Improves On-Air Workflow and Looks With Vizrt’s Viz Opus January 12^th 2016 - 04:00 PM

KITV in Honolulu, Hawaii recently completed a station-wide migration to full HD newsgathering and production based on a full complement of automated news content creation technology and systems from Vizrt.

Electricity: Part 3 - AC Systems May 27^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Here we look at alternating current (AC) systems and how generating AC often requires an intermediate step of converting to DC to improve the efficiencies of AC generators.

Broadcaster D2C Requirements For The 2020s - Part 2 May 24^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The first part of this article explained the set of requirements that appear in the most modern OTT Services from broadcasters launching their own App-based services in the 2020s. Here we inspect those requirements in the two broad areas of Content Monetization and Content Delivery.

Information: Part 2 - Gaussian Distribution May 23^rd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Information can never be separated from its nemesis, which is uncertainty. The former is only possible by limiting the latter.

IP Security For Broadcasters: Part 8 - RADIUS Network Access May 17^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Maintaining controlled access is critical for any secure network, especially when working with high-value media in broadcast environments.

Broadcaster D2C Requirements For The 2020s - Part 1 May 12^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Most national broadcasters in developed countries have app-based OTT services, many of which have been in place for over a decade. Less-developed national broadcasters still rely on YouTube, Social Media platforms, or their own websites to deliver OTT content to their audience.

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