
Tom Butts
Tom has covered the broadcast technology market for the past 25 years, including three years handling member communications for the National Association of Broadcasters followed by a year as editor of Video Technology News and DTV Business executive newsletters for Phillips Publishing. In 1999 he launched digitalbroadcasting.com for internet B2B portal Verticalnet. He is also a charter member of the CTA's Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Since 2001, he has been editor-in-chief of TV Tech (www.tvtech.com), the leading source of news and information on broadcast and related media technology and is a frequent contributor and moderator to the brand’s Tech Leadership events.
Latest articles by Tom Butts

Avid Accelerates Move to Cloud Production With AWS Agreement
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Collaboration will simplify deployment, reduce costs, increase flexibility, and enable real-time collaboration for production teams

Meet Rich Welsh, SMPTE’s New President
By Tom Butts published
SUMMIT New leader seeks to bring in new talent to 100+ year-old standards organization

Station Group Asks FCC to Allow LPTVs to Move to An All Datacasting Model
By Tom Butts published
Requests commission approve 5G Broadcast for LPTV

DOGE Grills Public Broadcasters on Capitol Hill
By Tom Butts published
'PBS is one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry'

GatesAir to Debut ASTC 3.0 Modulator for LPTV at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
New FPGA design innovation brings down the cost of ATSC 3.0 modulation, increases processing power for GatesAir’s low-power UHF transmitters

Avid Discusses New Leadership, NAB Show Plans
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Avid and Wolftech to debut seamless, digital-first newsroom integration and AI-driven workflows to accelerate storytelling

Leader to Unveil NDI Checker at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW NDI Checker can display a full list of NDI signals in the implementation, give clear access to all the technical parameters of any individual signal, provide a confidence monitor and create an event log

Miami Gets New ABC Affiliate
By Tom Butts published
WSVN to add ABC programming to subchannel while WPLG, Berkshire Hathaway Media's only local TV station and long time ABC affiliate, will go independent

Rohde & Schwarz to Focus on ATSC 3.0 at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Company will also demo its new transmitter monitoring service

2025 NAB Show: Mediaproxy to Debut Monwall Server to Expand Interactive Multiviewing
By Tom Butts published
Company will also introduce cloud licensing

Telestream Upgrades Vantage, Test Tools for 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
Company plans to showcase enhancements to Vantage platform and upgraded test and measurement tools

MediaKind Appoints New CTO and SVP Product & Marketing
By Tom Butts published
Cory Zachman has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer and Shahar Bar appointed SVP, Product & Marketing.

Bridge Technologies Adds AV Sync Generator to VB440 Suite
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Bridge’s AV Sync Generator represents the potential for automated correction in the future

LTN to Highlight Features of its Video-First network at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Company will demonstrate new ways to monetize live content, unlock ad revenue, and reach global audiences

Dream Chip to Debut World’s Smallest Global Shutter Broadcast Camera at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW AtomTwo camera is just slightly smaller than a ping pong ball

BEIT at NAB Show to Feature Live Chat with the International Space Station
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Five-day Broadcast Engineering and IT conferences to explore AI, cloud virtualization, streaming and NextGen TV

Summit: Scripps Sports Carves Out its Unique Niche in Sports TV
By Tom Butts published
In an interview during the Tech Leadership Summit, Scripps Sports President Brian Lawlor discusses how the growing interest in women's sports has impacted the new sports network

Ajit Pai Appointed President of CTIA
By Tom Butts published
Former FCC chairman succeeds former FCC commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker to head up association

Gray to Broadcast Select St. Louis Cardinals' Games on KMOV
By Tom Butts published
Games will be simulcast with FanDuel Sports Network

Amazon Prime Testing AI-Translated Closed Captioning
By Tom Butts published
AI-aided pilot program will take a hybrid approach to dubbing in which localization professionals collaborate with AI to ensure quality control

BIA: Digital to Push Local Ad Revenue Up 6.1% in 2025
By Tom Butts published
“Local advertising is showing resilience, despite the ongoing changes in the economic landscape"

Evergent Expands Monetization Platform with New AI Tools at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
New platform capabilities and 97% churn prediction accuracy transform revenue, retention and multiservice growth for global media businesses

Ateliere Offers $29.7M to Acquire Codemill
By Tom Butts last updated
Companies would combine media workflow, content management platforms, powered by AI
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