Tech Roundup

The Nexstar Digital arm of the largest local television broadcaster in the United States has entered into a multi-year agreement with Comcast's FreeWheel to use its Strata platform. The new agreement provides advertisers and agency partners easy access to Nexstar’s premium digital inventory and the ability to send orders electronically directly in their Strata workflow.

Broadcast Pix is welcoming a new Sales Manager for Latin America. He will be based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is charged with helping grow the company's business in the region.

In what Cumulus Media national radio arm Westwood One is calling a "historic first," a job recruitment website saw a boost in ad recall and brand awareness through its use of smart speaker pre-roll advertising. Here's some data that could help your stations achieve similar ROI for your digital and terrestrial radio clients.

On Wednesday at 8am Eastern, the Lawo "lounge" will open for a virtual session featuring "real life stories of remote radio workflows." Here's how you can sign up to participate in this event.

nablet offers a suite of XAVC components including smart rendering for ultra-fast stitching, AVID AMA plugins, and analytics at the container and essence level. It also offers a variety of codecs and related component SDKs which are used by many prominent companies.

While Dielectric expects that many broadcasters will have most critical components in place — notably stations that upgraded RF systems during repack — the transition requires a thorough evaluation of RF systems to ensure readiness for all that the ATSC 3.0 standard offers, the company notes.

Among the companies participating in the alliance focused on ATSC 3.0 next-generation TV technology are BitRouter, DigIt Signage Technologies, Digital Alert Systems, Enensys Technologies, Hitachi-Comark, Triveni Digital and Verance.

With deployments of ATSC 3.0-enabled NEXTGEN TV host stations ramping up, the technical team behind the Phoenix Model Market project is offering a series of seven free webinars every other Wednesday throughout this summer to television broadcasters. 

Camille Jayne, who held the role since March 2017, will retire as President of Bitcentral at the end of June. Jayne's successor has just been named by the broadcast workflow company.

Interested in enhancing digital monetization and recording capabilities in your radio station's streaming workflows? A Thursday webinar will offer an overview of GatesAir's new Intraplex contact closure to metadata feature, and learn how to configure it into a Intraplex unit using StreamGuys' SGrecast. Use cases will be a highlight of the webinar.

OTT video application management, creation and delivery is getting a speed boost, as a new framework within Applicaster's SaaS app development platform Zapp is now available for use.

Findings from a survey conducted by Veritone in collaboration with Future Media Entertainment Group suggest a majority of television companies are "embracing" AI and view the technology as "a competitive necessity." Word of the study's findings excited investors, as Veritone stock soared by nearly 10% on roughly twice its average volume. 

Vertical Bridge REIT, the privately held owner and operator of communications infrastructure and locations across the U.S., confirmed Monday that it has successfully issued the notes in a private asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction.

There is a change in command at the maker of monitoring, visualization and delivery analytics tools to broadcast media known as Qligent. The Melbourne, Fla.-based company on Monday revealed that its President/CEO since 2014 is transitioning to the role of Executive Chairman of its board of directors. 

The U.S. Sales and Marketing Manager for Music Products at Solid State Logic has been named to a National Sales position at the manufacturer of audio consoles and creative tools for broadcast media.