Sony has purchased master control, playout and automation specialist Crispin Corp. of Raleigh, N.C., the company announced at its NAB Show booth during a press conference. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. “You heard today that everything from ingest to collaboration all the way out to distribution, we have different products for that on AWS […]
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For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP
Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of television. At the core of the service offering is IP transport and virtualization of functions traditionally done with standalone black boxes running proprietary software in equipment racks. Shortly before IBC […]
Imagine Communications Tops 25 IP-Based Deployments
Imagine Communications has completed more than 25 IP-based live production and playout installations, the company said Thursday. ”This important milestone marks how far we have come since unveiling our vision at IBC 2013 for a software-based technology transformation of the media and entertainment industry,” said Charlie Vogt, CEO of Imagine Communications. According to the company, deployments […]
WETP Deploys NVerzion Automation System
WETP, the public broadcaster in Knoxville, Tenn., has replaced its automation setup with a new system from NVerzion. The station is using NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions, CLASS, for master control, playout and media asset management operations. WETP bought the system from Heartland Video Systems to support its main HD channel and two subchannels. […]
Imagine Communications, HP Deepen Relationship
Imagine Communications and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are taking their relationship to a new, deeper level to offer television broadcasters and other content distributors HPE server, storage and network solutions optimized for, and integrated with, Imagine’s playout, networking, distribution and ad management product portfolio, Imagine announced today. The relationship, which expands on an agreement to […]
Follow Me As I Tweet From IBC 2015
Be sure to follow me this week and through Sept. 15 on Twitter, in my Playout blog and elsewhere on the TVNewsCheck website for the latest from IBC 2015 in Amsterdam. I will be attending multiple sessions and keynotes as well as swinging by many of the most important exhibits and special features on the […]
Sinclair Selects Grass Valley To Transition Playout
Sinclair Broadcast Group has chosen Grass Valley’s iTX integrated playout platform, GV STRATUS Playout and infrastructure products to modernize its playout operation, Grass Valley said today. Sinclair is transitioning playout at six stations. Four of those are already on air with iTX. According to the Grass Valley press release announcing the move, the broadcast group also […]
Vector 3 To Feature 4K Playout At NAB
Vector 3 will launch its range of 4K playout solutions at the 2015 NAB Show in April, the company has announced. The company also will show its range of workflow management products. Vector 3’s 4K and HD playout products are designed with redundancy management and optimized workflow automation tools, which help operators when managing multiple […]
Grass Valley Will Show Cloud-based Playout at BroadcastAsia
At BroadcastAsia next week in Singapore, Grass Valley will show GV Stratus, a new playout technology that combines cloud computing with an on-site solid-state play out server — all on a single card. This cloud-enabled Software as a Service (SaaS) technology enables facilities to regionalize channel content and begin playout in minutes. “This ingenious approach […]
Playout, Version 2.0 of the Blog
To Playout readers: Now that we are past the NAB 2014 season and the crush of new product announcements that accompany it, it’s time for the Playout blog to evolve further. We want it to become a technology community for our readers — a sort of catch-all community newspaper for broadcasters, if you will. Our […]