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NAB Committees Focus on the Technologies that Drive Broadcasting

By |February 7, 2022|Blog|

NAB’s Technology department is always busy with the work of the association, whether it be helping to plan the next NAB technical conference or webcast or working to develop new technical standards and recommendations focused [...]

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PILOT Opens Window for 2022 Innovation Challenge Applications

By |January 4, 2022|News|

PILOT is now accepting submissions for the PILOT Innovation Challenge through 5 p.m. ET on January 31. The program will provide mentorship and promotion to winning proposals, along with an opportunity to demonstrate their products at NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 23-27, 2022. 

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Broadcast Technology Predictions: Looking Ahead at 2022

By |December 20, 2021|Blog|

We wanted to know what technologists in our industry are excited about and expect (or hope) to see in 2022, so we asked the NAB Technology staff and a few other luminaries in the industry if they had anything to share. They did.  This compilation of predictions is our way to wrap up 2021 by looking forward to 2022.

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PILOT Launches New NEXTGEN TV Fellowship, Introduces 2021 Fellows

By |December 14, 2021|News|

PILOT has launched the PILOT NEXTGEN TV Fellowship program with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The fellowship will focus on exploring capabilities of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard and developing a concept for a NEXTGEN TV product or service. The fellowship will conclude with fellows presenting their projects at the 2022 NAB Show in April in Las Vegas. The 2021-2022 fellows are current Howard University students Mikaela Mosley and Sulaiman Bastien.

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2021 Innovation Challenge Winner: Beam Dynamics

By |September 2, 2021|Blog|

BeamON™ from BEAM Dynamics is a product intelligence platform for broadcast stations. The platform bridges the communication barrier between product owners and manufacturers to help broadcast studios reduce costly downtime on set and extend equipment life cycles.

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2021 Innovation Challenge Winner: Northeastern University

By |September 2, 2021|Blog|

A picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, then animation is worth tens of thousands of words. Innovation Challenge winning Northeastern University has done research on just how valuable animations are for getting [...]

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PILOT Announces Winners of the 2021 Innovation Challenge

By |August 31, 2021|News|

PILOT has announced two winners of the 2021 PILOT Innovation Challenge. Winners will receive relevant mentorship, feedback, travel support and exhibit space at the 2021 NAB Show, held October 9-13 in Las Vegas. This year's winners are "BeamOn" from Beam Dynamics and "Reinventing Local TV News: Prioritizing Animation and Graphics" from Northeastern University.

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NAB Announces Winners of 2021 Technology Awards

By |June 17, 2021|News|

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) revealed the 2021 winners of the NAB Engineering Achievement Awards for Radio and Television, the Service to Broadcast Engineering Award, and the Digital Leadership Award. The winners were announced and celebrated during a special event hosted exclusively on NAB Amplify on June 17.

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PILOT Opening Application Window for 2021 Innovation Challenge

By |June 7, 2021|News|

PILOT will be accepting submissions for the PILOT Innovation Challenge through 5 p.m. ET on July 9. The program will provide mentorship and promotion to winning proposals, along with an opportunity to demonstrate their products at NAB Show in Las Vegas, October 9-13, 2021.

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NAB to Present Engineering Achievement and Digital Leadership Awards at NAB Amplify Event

By |June 1, 2021|News|

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will host a special event June 17th at 2 p.m. EDT on NAB Amplify to announce and celebrate the 2021 recipients of the NAB Engineering Achievement Awards and Digital Leadership Award.The special session titled “The Future of Media and NAB Technology Awards” kicks off with a keynote conversation with Mike Chapman, a partner and Americas Media Lead at Kearney, a management consulting firm specializing in corporate and growth strategy and business transformation. Chapman will discuss the future of media, including trends to watch, with Sam Matheny, executive vice president and chief technology officer of NAB.

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