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 questions we get about the challenge are related to criteria. When ideas are submitted that answer the challenge prompt, “What [...]
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.”
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 ways to serve audiences. The PILOT Innovation Challenge is designed to inspire and further enhance this ideation process. We’re calling on [...]
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 a dominant source of news for U.S. adults. However, younger adults – those under age 30 – are relying on [...]
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 any device, whether big, small or moving? We are challenging people to think about new ways to address that question, [...]
“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 for ideas around content that engages people, and “next-generation” is our means of suggesting a constraint toward the future. The delivery and [...]
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. You can watch the full workshop above We joined 1776 last year not only to connect with startup [...]
It's difficult to predict the power of a new idea in its infancy, but all good things are born from simple ideas. That’s why we’re launching our first-ever PILOT Innovation Challenge. We want to hear any and all ideas for engaging our communities. We’re issuing the Innovation Challenge because we see opportunity. How might local television [...]
Create teams of four people from different local media companies with varying job responsibilities and ask them to create a new, financially sustainable product in 36 hours and you might be surprised by the results. Of course, the likelihood of the team creating something industry-shattering is unlikely. But ask them to focus on their customer [...]
TV news app aggregates and curates videos from a wide variety of credible sources, provides a continuous and personalized headline news channel for consumers -- Incubated at Stanford’s StartX accelerator, Haystack TV launched in 2014 and is now available on multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Android TV, Apple TV and Chromecast. The app features high [...]
