Hollywood of the Middle East
Recently, NAB CTO Sam Matheny and I had a rare opportunity to visit Egypt Media Production City (EMPC), a 700+ acre site that many consider “the Hollywood of the Middle East.” The facility, located just [...]
Innovation Is About People, Not Shiny Objects
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 [...]
Security and Content Protection Are High Priorities for ATSC 3.0
Early in the ATSC 3.0 development process it became readily apparent that for prevention of content piracy or unsanctioned signal retransmission, and to enable the capability to run auxiliary subscription services, the broadcast signal would [...]
Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Sean Branagan is a serial entrepreneur, evangelist for startups and innovation, and educator. He is the Director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University [...]
Mobile Moves Ahead
Reprinted from the September/October 2019 issue of The Financial Manager magazine People like labels. Companies like labels. Industries like labels. In today’s complex world, they simplify things, and allow us to sort them into more [...]
Is That Real? Deepfakes at NAB Show New York
I’m stoked about a session that we have coming up at NAB Show New York. In truth, I’m excited about a bunch of the sessions, but there is one in particular that has me writing [...]
2020 BEIT Conference’s Call for Papers is Open
Technical paper proposals are now being accepted for the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference at the 2020 NAB Show, to be held April 18-22 in Las Vegas, Nev. The NAB Show is the [...]
Third PILOT ATSC 3.0 Interoperability Event – Cleveland, OH
On September 16-19, 2019 PILOT together with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) conducted the third ATSC 3.0 Interop, which focused on implementation of the most recent version of the ATSC 3.0 Next Generation TV specification. [...]
Which AM Station will be Next for All-Digital?
Radio broadcasters from around the country converged on Dallas last week for the 2019 Radio Show, co-produced by NAB and the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). Kicking things off was the first-ever “Tech Tuesday,” a full-day [...]
Broadcasting in an Era of Connected Intelligence
The next 15 years will be more disruptive than the last 15 years. A myriad of connected devices and sensors will share and process information, and new services and business models taking advantage of the [...]