How many times have you told your teenager not to text and drive? What would you say about livestreaming to Facebook Live and driving -at 185 mph? If you were the parents of 19-year-old racecar driver Devin O’Connell, you would probably say something like: “Good thinking, son.” When O’Connell takes to the track at Claremont […]
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Remote Revolution: IP Transport Is Key To Reducing Production Costs, Says Paul Shen
This summer I had a chance to sit down with Jimmy Goodmon Jr. in his office at Capitol Broadcasting in Raleigh, N.C., for a face-to-face interview on ATSC 3.0. During the Q&A, Goodmon revealed WRAL planned to begin offering HighSchoolOT Live — an NFL Red Zone-like over-the-top service to viewers of Friday night high school football […]
TVU Networks Announces ‘Campaign Contribution’
TVU Networks today announced it would once again make a significant campaign contribution effort -not a financial donation to a candidate, but rather contribution technology and services to assist broadcasters covering the 2016 campaign season and election. The company will provide broadcasters worldwide covering the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign video contribution services and products from in […]
TVU Networks, Unilumin Form Strategic Partnership
TVU Networks and Unilumin Group, a Shenzhen, China-based manufacturer of large LED displays for a variety of applications ranging from control rooms to venue displays, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership to serve joint customers in the broadcast and other industries worldwide. TVU Networks is well known in the broadcast industry as a […]
Avid, Dejero, TVUNetworks Join AIMS
Avid, Dejero and TVU Networks have joined the Alliance for IP Media Solutions, AIMS. Avid has a long history of enabling file-based workflows in the television industry. Over the past few years, it has promoted its Avid Everywhere solution based on its MediaCentral platform. Joining AIMS helps position Avid for the unfolding role IP transport and switching are […]
Super Technology For The Super Bowl
Every year at about this time, I begin to receive press releases from broadcast technology vendors eager to trumpet the fact their particular piece of gear or software contributed to the production of the game. While my feature article today focused on what technology is new and important for the production of Super Bowl 50 […]
TVUPack Delivers Ski Championship Live Shots
Broadcasters deployed TVU Networks’ TVUPack IP video transmission systems to deliver live video from the recently completed 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colo., the company announced today. The TVUPack mobile cellular uplink delivered live shots from various venues at the championships and throughout the town of Vail. TVU Networks was […]
VISLINK Ships AirStream 2.0
VISLINK today said its next-generation portable AirStream 2.0 cellular transmitter is now available. Airstream 2.0 offers 50% improved 4G LTE performance and one-touch-to-air functionality, the company said. The product has TVU Grid interface capabilities. When a VISLINK receiver ingests AirStream 2.0 transmissions, they are distributed to the TVU Grid providing point-to-point and point-to-multipoint content distribution. […]
Nexstar Deploys TVU Networks IP Newsgathering
Nexstar Broadcasting Group is deploying TVU Networks’ IP newsgathering transmitters and IP switching, routing and distribution technology, called TVU Grid IP. The announcement comes a little more than a month after Blake Russell, Nexstar SVP of station operations, said the station group was moving forward with adopting IP newsgathering technology during a presentation at the […]
Frontline, TVU Networks Partner on IP News Trucks
Frontline Communications and TVU Networks will unveil a new IP newsgathering vehicle that combines cellular, microwave and satellite technologies for contribution Aug. 7 at the Texas Association of Broadcasters in Austin, Texas. The technology package, called the Frontline IPVS, or IP Video Solution, has at its heart the TVU MLink rack-mountable IP uplink transmitter. The […]