By John Clark|September 17, 2019|Blog|
We’re changing things up a bit for the fourth annual PILOT Innovation Challenge. This year, we’re funding a team to develop a prototype in response to a more specific challenge prompt: Build an AI character [...]
By John Clark|October 11, 2018|Blog|
I'm pleased to welcome three leading global technology companies to PILOT. AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company; Facebook Journalism Project; and Xperi have joined PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters. [...]
By John Clark|August 22, 2018|Blog, Innovation Challenge|
In our third Innovation Challenge, we’re looking for creative ideas for ways broadcasters and other local media could serve communities. And as the saying goes, “ideas are cheap, execution is everything.” That’s why we’ll award [...]
By John Clark|June 21, 2017|Innovation Challenge 2017, Blog, Innovation Challenge|
The link between the PILOT Innovation Challenge participants and judges is established through the judging criteria. Having a common understanding of what is expected in entries and how to evaluate them is critical. Many of the [...]
By John Clark|May 17, 2017|Blog|
NAB’s Skip Pizzi was awarded the Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) during the 2017 Next Gen TV Conference in Washington, DC., on May 17."Skip is an outstanding leader," said ATSC President Mark Richer, "whose remarkable technical and management skills; enthusiasm and commitment has helped to facilitate the rapid development of the next generation television standard.”
By John Clark|April 23, 2017|Innovation Challenge 2017, Blog|
What’s next? It’s a simple question with infinite, complex answers. I don’t know of any industry that doesn’t wrestle with how to answer it. The broadcast industry is no different and it's why we are continuously exploring new [...]
By John Clark|December 14, 2016|Innovation Challenge 2017, Blog|
Local broadcasters play a vital role in our communities. They work to deliver the news, weather, emergency information and entertainment people rely on each day. According to a 2016 Pew Research Center report, broadcast remains [...]
By John Clark|August 22, 2016|Blog, Innovation Challenge|
The PILOT Innovation Challenge is a call to all entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and creative thinkers for ideas that answer the question: How might local television and radio broadcasters engage their communities with next generation content on [...]
By John Clark|August 1, 2016|Blog, Innovation Challenge|
“What is next-generation content?” That’s the biggest question we’ve received since launching the PILOT Innovation Challenge. It’s a good question with a tricky answer because we don’t want to be prescriptive about the ideas. We’re looking [...]
By John Clark|July 21, 2016|Blog|
What’s the best way to pitch a story to a media organization? That was the question of the hour during a recent workshop we conducted in partnership with 1776 for 20 of their startups. [...]
