By John Clark|May 15, 2020|Blog|
While we were not able to gather in Las Vegas for NAB Show this year, we remain committed to providing the resources, education and discussions that keep us connected. Now all NAB Show Express is available on demand. We invite you explore and watch the sessions curated by the NAB Technology staff for NAB Show Express, which are be available on-demand. Registration is free for these sessions.
By John Clark|April 27, 2020|Blog|
Since 2016, the Digital Futures Conference at NAB Show has brought together bright minds to discuss strategies for leveraging current opportunities for increasing engagement and earning more revenue in a multi-platform world. Those strategies have [...]
By John Clark|March 26, 2020|Blog|
The newscast must go on … but from a different place. I wish I knew the number of basements, closets and living rooms that have been converted to production studios these past few weeks. As [...]
By John Clark|February 27, 2020|Blog|
The development phase of the 2019 PILOT Innovation Challenge is complete. The winning teams have built their prototypes in response to the challenge prompt: Build an AI character that can have conversations with individual viewers, [...]
By John Clark|November 5, 2019|Blog|
Innovation. It’s a simple word with quite a bit of implication. Just mentioning “innovation” in a conversation jumpstarts thoughts about new technology, creative thinking and disruption to rolling eyes at just the sound of what [...]
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|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|December 14, 2016|Blog, Innovation Challenge 2017|
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 [...]
