posted by Deborah D. McAdams

Tanya Van Pool has been named vice president of Research for the National Association of Broadcasters.

Pasternack has hired Tim Galla as the company’s product manager for Active RF Components.

Red Digital Cinema and Surfer Magazine have come together to announce the official launch of Redirect Surf 2015.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers opened registration for the SMPTE Forum 2015, “Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age: A European Perspective.”

The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced the final schedule for the 2015 HPA Tech Retreat, Feb. 9-13. The Tech Retreat offers four days of sessions, demonstrations and events.

Televisión Canaria, the broadcasting authority for Spain’s Canary Islands, has migrated its entire archive from LTO tape to an ALTO all-disk storage system from Disk Archive Corp.

Bitcentral is expanding its product reach into the Latin American market, including Mexico, Central and South America.

Advanced Systems Group announced Tim Gross joined the technical team effective Nov. 3.

Broadcast Pix announced Chuck Williamson was named western region sales manager, effective Jan. 1.

ATG Danmon announced the completion of a tape- and file-based ingest, transcoding and quality-control technology providing file preparation for Arqiva.

Bitcentral announced that Michael Petersen has been appointed to vice president of product management.

Digigram announced that Seoul, Korea-based Buddhist Television Network has built a new Internet radio service on the Iqoya Link/LEaudio-over-IP transport system.

ESPN is setting up camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., the tony suburb near the University of Phoenix Stadium, where the Seahawks and the Patriots will battle it out for the title of Super Bowl champ.

Forbidden Technologies announced that it is restructuring its North American business to move from a direct to an indirect sales and support model.

Tightrope Media Systems recently promoted five-year company veteran Kelli Smith to director of broadcast sales, and hired Richard Turner as digital signage regional sales manager.

Orad released a new version of its Social Media Hub platform.