Tom Butts

CentralCast expects revenues to surpass $6 million by 2027

BUSINESS Appear's 'Centre of Excellence' includes a purpose-built lab, training and customer support hub

FCC Regulator to take action on broadcast ownership caps, ATSC 1.0 sunset

STANDARDS Association releases guide recommending adoption of Conversion APIs to improve ad measurement performance

SPORTS WBD Sports Europe says its Olympics coverage will be available to all HBO Max customers in Europe, including Italy and Germany for the first time

BUSINESS Combined entity will have more than 6 million subscribers, making it the sixth largest pay TV service in the U.S.

PRODUCT Company also announcing expanded mobile capabilities at Adobe MAX

PEOPLE Former NBC Sports tech exec helped shape the modern era of Olympics TV coverage

To calculate the resolution limit, researchers conducted a study that measured participants’ ability to detect specific features in color and greyscale images on a screen

STANDARDS Partners’ proof-of-concept for next-generation video coding technology positively evaluated by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

NAB SHOW NY New Z-HD6500-S1 4K camera borrows design elements from the company’s Z-HD6500 multiformat HD camera, and has been reinvented as a full-featured native 4K camera

BUSINESS Companies say they will collaborate to ensure continuity for existing customers

SPORTS Partnership will deliver 21 regular-season games in 2025-26

NAB SHOW NY Visitors to Booth 244 will see the latest advancements across the company’s Baton, Orion, Vega and Baton Captions product suites

PRODUCTS Pebble’s systems integration partner, CTI, installed the system for government access channel for Cobb County, Ga.

CleanTap says fake devices can seamlessly access premium ad Inventory, calls for industry-wide reform

Special guests to the Nov. 6 event include special guests NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell and Joel Oxley, President and General Manager of Hubbard Radio’s WTOP

Could this lead to a nationwide rule?

Roku’s premium CTV supply can now be activated through the FreeWheel Streaming Hub with better demand signals, more transparency, and more efficient monetization, the companies said

NEXTGEN TV Commission will act on whether to propose shutting down 1.0 by 2030

FCC Although the doctrine was rescinded under the Reagan Administration, SCOTUS's 1969 'Red Lion' decision needs to be revisited

SPORTS Student Athlete Fairness and Enforcement (SAFE) Act to codify athletes’ rights and protections in law, expand revenue for all schools, support women’s and Olympic sports and ensure continued, free broadcast coverage of college sports

SPORTS Google, network reach long-term agreement across YouTube TV, Peacock, YouTube, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution

BUSINESS The launch of "T-Motion" represents EVS's foray into the media production robotics market

PRODUCTS Latest edition enhances the map creation workflow with high-quality 3D map visuals