Tech Roundup

Data, insights, and consulting company Kantar is partnering with Pulse Labs, which provides measurement, analytics, and testing tools for marketing and product teams, to generate new understanding into consumer usage of voice assistants.

More than 50 leading-edge companies will exhibit for the first time at the 2019 NAB Show New York, held October 16-17 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where attendees can explore new products and technologies through in-depth exhibits and experiential demonstrations.

An individual well known in the broadcast television industry as a sales professional with over 27 years’ experience in developing and maintaining client relationships is joining a digital broadcast automation provider. He'll represent the company in the Northeast region.

Orban Labs, known for its audio processing products for radio, television and digital audio and visual services, is holding another series of SBE Teleconferences with company founder Bob Orban.

At IBC2019, Harmonic will demonstrate real-world deployments of its unified OTT and broadcast delivery solutions. A variety of deployment strategies will be showcased, including cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, to demonstrate how service providers, broadcasters and content owners originate and distribute video channels smarter, faster and simpler.

Broadcast facility management software maker Xytech is heading to IBC 2019 in Amsterdam, and it is putting a spotlight on "several major updates" to its MediaPulse product line

A Montréal-based designer of value-added connectivity solutions for the pro AV and broadcast markets has added a Seattle-based Regional Sales Manager to serve the U.S. West Coast.

The AWARN Alliance is a voluntary, international coalition of media, consumer electronics, and B2B technology firms and trade associations that have come together to utilize Next Generation Televisions, based on the ATSC 3.0 standard, for advanced emergency alerting, news, and information.

A full-day program tailored for radio station engineers and technologists has been added to the slate of events scheduled for late September at the 2019 Radio Show in Dallas. Introducing Tech Tuesday, scheduled for September 24.

Utah Scientific has promoted three longtime employees while welcoming a field service engineer. This sees Randy Rose rise to the position of Director of Sales Engineering at the maker of routing switchers, master control switchers, and related control software.

GatesAir says the expanded portfolio, getting a public view for the first time at IBC2019, is a direct result of the company’s recent acquisition of ONEtastic, operating forward as GatesAir S.r.l. in Brescia, Italy.

A "new approach to dynamics control and pre-emphasis management" is fueling the arrival of the X5 FM audio processor from Wheatstone, which is getting its official rollout at the annual IBC conference in Amsterdam.

DAD Disaster Recovery (DAD-DR), a cloud-based companion to ENCO's DAD radio automation system, is now ready for deployment, providing stations with the ability to take over program ad ad playout on a moment's notice.

Eurofins Digital Testing, known for its end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, is now offering software solutions to help studios, post-production companies, broadcasters and distributors adopt the Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF), aimed at streamlining associated workflows and reducing costs.

NVerzion, a Salt Lake City-based maker of digital broadcasting and television station automation tools, is now offering a new time delay server that provides discrete dual channels of Serial-Digital or High-Definition video, with up to 16 embedded audio channels, in one 3 RU rack mount chassis.