Flomenco: The Next Generation of Media Workflows
Ryan McKeague is the founder and CEO of Flomenco, one of three winners of the 2025 PILOT Innovation Challenge.In today’s media landscape, teams face growing pressure to create, adapt and deliver content faster, often with fewer resources. Yet many are still stuck with fragmented tools, manual processes and disconnected data that limit their agility.Flomenco was built to change that.As a 2025 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge winner, Flomenco was proud to introduce an expansion of our product into an AI-powered media automation platform that simplifies operations, accelerates workflows and helps teams get more value from their media
Networked IP Microphones: Future-Proof Your Broadcast from Stereo to Immersive
Broadcast infrastructures have gone IP-first: cameras plug into network switches, video routers run in software and production engines live on Ethernet. Yet audio capture still relies on analog cables, patch bays and rack gear. The traditional chain (mic → cable → preamp → A/D → network interface) delivers stereo in a handful of locations today, but it cannot scale to immersive formats or hard-to-reach placements without rewiring every time you add channels or change layouts. Viewers now take surround sound for granted - Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats are built into modern TVs, soundbars and headsets. Flat stereo feels outdated, and legacy workflows simply cannot keep pace.
Technology Innovation Awards Presented to Southwest Research Institute and latakoo
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and latakoo won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2025 NAB Show. SwRI won for their demonstration of “BEAMoCap: Biomechanical Evaluation and Animation Motion Capture” and latakoo won for their demonstration of "Generative Video Codec."
NAB Best Paper Award Winner: Digital-Only Boosters for HD Radio Single Frequency Networks
The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to independent consultant Alan Jurison and Xperi's Jeff Baird and Mike Raide for their paper, “Digital-Only Boosters for HD Radio Single Frequency Networks.”
NAB and IEEE:BTS Present 2025 Best Student Paper Award
The NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to Mohammad Ghasempour, a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria for the paper titled, “Two-Pass Encoding for Live Video Streaming.”
Out-of-This-World Broadcast: LIVE from Space at the 2025 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference at NAB Show
The NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference, part of NAB Show taking place April 5-9, 2025, is blasting off with a keynote session that’s literally out of this world! Conference attendees will engage in a live 4K UHD conversation with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, showcasing new live UHD switching and routing capability at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.