Robert Kakareka has joined Qligent as the company’s new manager/business development, the company announced. He will focus on developing U.S. sales, customer relationships and market opportunities. Kakareka, who is based in Atlanta, will report to John Shoemaker, the company’s director of sales. He will have responsibility for sales of Qligent’s Vision cloud-based monitoring and compliance […]
Monitoring
Blackmagic Design Offers Summer Special On Video Assists
Blackmagic Design this week announced a special summer promotion on its Video Assist and Video Assist 4K. The promotion cuts the price of the former by $100 to $395 and the latter by $300 to $595. Both products are available worldwide from Blackmagic Design resellers, the company said. The offer is limited to the existing […]
Turner Latin America Turns To The Cloud
Turner Latin America has signed a deal with Prime Focus Technologies to use its Clear Broadcast Cloud for work order and supply chain management as well as end-to-end process monitoring of critical tasks via reports and dashboards, PFT announced today. The Buenos Aires, Argentina-based processing hub of Turner Latin America will be connected with all […]
WATC Automates STL, Off-Air RF Signal Monitoring
WATC, an independent station in Atlanta, has begun automatically monitoring and recording its broadcast signal with Qligent Point, the company announced today. The station is using Qligent Point to monitor its ASI stream from the WATC studios to its transmitter site as well as its off-air RF signal being transmitter, according to Qligent. The Qligent […]
Snell Advanced Media Launches SAM Academy
Snell Advanced Media (SAM) has launched the SAM Academy, part of its new Partner Engagement Program, the company announced today. The academy first training event will be held in February. The SAM Academy is a knowledge source designed for its channel partners, system integrators, resellers, VARs and distributors globally. The academy delivers in-house classes at its U.K. […]
Exclamation Propels TNDV Into Big Truck Market
TNDV, the Nashville, Tenn.-based mobile production facilities provider, is known among the sports and entertainment TV communities as a go-to source for remote productions where six or fewer cameras are needed, says Nic Dugger, owner and president of the company. Since May, however, when the company hit the road with Exclamation, its latest mobile production […]
Witbe Opens Denver Office
Quality of Experience test and monitoring specialist Witbe has opened a new Witbe Center, in Denver, the company said today. The new Denver office will manage the west and central areas of the country. Being headquartered in Denver will position the company closer to the headquarters of some of its major customers, including Charter TWC, […]
New Omega Live Truck Combines HD, 4K Capabilities
Omega Broadcast Group, a sales, equipment rental and production service provider in Austin, Texas, like most broadcasters and other TV professionals, is well aware that today is a time of transition between the well-established, dominant format of HD and the up-and-coming format of 4K. So when the company decided to build its new 40-foot live production […]
WLVT Streamlines Critical Monitoring Functions
WLVT, the public broadcaster serving eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, has streamlined its monitoring workflow. The station, which includes Philadelphia and Reading, Pa., in its coverage area, has transitioned to centralized, software-defined monitoring with the assistance of the Qligent Point system. The new monitoring system has accelerated problem resolution and compliance monitoring, transforming the […]
Mediaproxy Joins AIMS
Mediaproxy, a Melbourne, Australia-based company specializing in broadcast compliance logging, content monitoring and transport stream analysis, has joined the Alliance for IP Media Solutions, AIMS, the alliance said today. Mediaproxy offers products to broadcasters, IPTV, MSOs, cable and satellite providers worldwide. Its product portfolio includes the LogServer platform, which provides 24/7 multichannel recording, live monitoring and […]