Global Content Protection Tech Provider Expands Leadership Team

Friend MTS, a provider of content protection services to media companies across the globe, is welcoming a new EVP/Americas and General Counsel to its executive team. The individual taking the executive VP role will be based in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A Digigram IP Codec Centralizes Signals Studio Side

With input signals that can be analog, digital or RAVENNA, and output signals that can be either analog and/or digital, the IQOYA X/LINK-MPX includes a feature set that enables reliable transmission of the MPX signal over managed or unmanaged networks.

Tightening The News Production Process, From Ingest to Delivery

Introducing Nexio NewsCraft, marketed as a all-in-one news production tool that enables organizations to work smarter and more efficiently ― ensuring every news story gets to air quickly no matter where operators are located.

A Virtual Studio Interview, Bridged by a Quicklink

Quicklink Studio (ST55) has been used to assist in a production of a virtual studio interview between a high-profile, top European football manager based in a studio in London, and an interviewer based in a second studio in Dublin. For the production, Quicklink Studio (ST55) was used to provide a conversation between two studios and Master Control.

A New Integration of the Vantage Media Processing Platform

Telestream, the provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement products for the production and distribution of video, has announced a new integration of the Vantage Media Processing Platform within BroadView’s OnDemand software to provide advanced transcoding and automated media workflows.

Evrideo to Offer Cloud-Based Localization Products

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the localization industry, has signed an API partnership with broadcast channel management service provider Evrideo.

TSG Inaugurates New Baton Rouge HQ

With 36,000 square feet of interior floor space, the building is almost six times larger than the company’s previous headquarters. The new building’s warehouse and staging area, complete with tractor trailer loading zones and multiple forklifts, can accommodate equipment needs for larger projects.

CIS: NTP’s New Brazil, North American Sales Partner

The partnership includes the NTP Technology Penta and DAD product lines with a focus on Broadcast and Entertainment.

Tightrope Expands Cablecast Platform with Software Upgrade

Headlining the list of new features in Cablecast version 7.3 is dynamic audio normalization. Available on Cablecast VIO video servers, the function allows users to set a target loudness level to which all audio playout will automatically be adjusted in real time.

An Erie Upgrade, Thanks To NFinity Move

It is the owner of the PBS station serving northwestern Pennsylvania, and the licensee of the NPR station with matching call letters that signify, "We Question and Learn." An upgrade to the stations' broadcast facility was necessary, with the need for additional content recording and playback channels an acute one. The new playout channels are in place

A Media Asset Management Tool Gains Cloud Cover

Independent Prague-headquartered automation systems producer Aveco has unveiled a media asset management (MAM) tool designed for cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premises use.

Enhanced & Extended VOD and Live Monitoring Tools, From Telestream

Telestream has released new enhancements to its IQ family of monitoring products and systems, a move the company says answers the need for enhanced VOD and Live monitoring capabilities for content owners, aggregators, CDN operators and subscription service providers.

Orban Reorganizes PCn1600 Sales

Orban Labs, the maker of audio processing systems for AM, FM, DAB+, HD Radio, television and Internet broadcasting, is "reorganizing" sales of its PCn1600 audio processing software. Translation: years of exclusivity have ended for two entities that had exclusive sales licenses. 

New Firmware for Tieline Gateway and Gateway 4 Codecs

“This is a significant release which supports features like NMOS, and up to 8 channels of phase-locked multi-channel IP audio, which will excite broadcast engineers,” said Charlie Gawley, VP of Sales for the APAC/EMEA regions.

Evertz Opens a DreamCatcher Training Center

As a provider of hardware and software-based live production workflow tools, Evertz says this will assist the company in offering broadcasters and content providers a new resource to assist in the creation of "high quality content at unprecedented speeds."