OTTAWA, Canada—Ross Video, celebrating its 50th anniversary, will show its latest product innovations with a focus on their value and impact on customer and partner collaboration during the 2024 NAB Show, April 13-17, in Las Vegas.

The company will feature how it is enabling organizations from diverse industries to deliver video experiences and create live productions in the cloud, the virtual studio, the newsroom or anywhere else, it said.

"We are thrilled to be returning to NAB Show as part of our milestone 50th-year celebrations," said Jeff Moore, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Ross Video.  “The event gives us the perfect stage to demonstrate our enduring passion for developing cutting-edge, reliable solutions that solve real-world challenges for our customers. We’re looking forward to welcoming attendees to our booth to see how Ross continues to shape the technology landscape across live production."

See Ross Video in NAB Show booth SL2005.

NAB Show attendees can schedule a meeting with Ross Video at the event online. 

More information is available on the company’s website.

WASHINGTON—PBS is celebrating its golden anniversary this week, as the public media provider first began operations 50 years ago.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting established PBS in 1969. PBS’ first broadcast was “The French Chef” with Julia Child. Today, PBS has 330 member stations serving all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa, offering more than 1,200 hours a year of programming to fulfill its mission of educating, inspiring, entertaining and expressing a diversity of perspectives.

PBS touchstones in its first 50 years have included “Sesame Street,” “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” "Cosmos," “Washington Week” and “Masterpiece Theater.”

This year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, PBS has been a key educational resource for educators and families with school closures. According to CPB, PBS serves 3.1 million American homes that do not have access to cable or the internet. PBS has also offered programming in response to incidents like the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, including films and specials focused on race relations in America, as well as providing resources to educators to share with their students.

“In the 50 years since CPB established PBS, the organizations have worked together to provide a valuable service to the American people and to ensure that public television maintains the highest standards of quality, accessible to all,” said Pat Harrison, president and CEO of CPB.

PBS invites people to share their memories of the broadcasters’ first 50 years by using hashtag #PBS50.

EXTON, Penn.—Today is a big day for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The group, which develops standards, educational resources and other programs for major cable operators around the world, held a reception for employees and guests to mark the anniversary.

SCTE President and CEO Mark Dzuban offered remarks at the reception, and the office of Pennsylvania State Rep. Danielle Friel-Otten presented the society with a proclamation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of Representatives to mark the anniversary.

“The small band of charter members has grown into the largest applied science organization in the industry,” Dzuban wrote in a memo to employees, chapter members, board members and other supporters.

The society dates back to 1969. It was founded to advance the science of cable television.

Some 20,000 cable technology executives and professionals make up today’s SCTE membership. Since its founding, SCTE has trained more than 21,000 people and awarded over 65,000 certifications to 40,000 cable industry professionals.

“Our engineering and educational expertise has won an Emmy Award, secured the first of what will be many patents and created an L&D breakthrough in the CORTEX Expert Development System. Together with our corporate and individual members and our partners at NCTA and CableLabs, we are driving future success in energy management, business resiliency and the industry’s new focus on 10G,” said Dzuban.

ALAMEDA, CALIF.—A lot has changed in 50 years for the broadcast industry and during that time Clear-Com has been around to help consumers meet those changes. The California-based company is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018 and has a couple of things planned to recognize those who helped them reach this point, both staff and customers. Current Clear-Com President Bob Boster shared some of those plans with TV Technology.

With the 2018 NAB Show quickly approaching, Clear-Com will use its booth on the show floor to serve as a quick stop for people to recognize the company and staff. Two staff members in particular will hopefully be present: Charlie Butten and Bob Cohen. Butten is Clear-Com’s founding technologist, while Cohen was described as Butten’s “counter point” by Boster in the company's founding. Boster confirmed that Button would be in attendance, though as of our interview it was not confirmed if Cohen would also be present. The pair are slated to be in the booth on Monday, April 9, to meet with visitors.

Also taking place at the end of the day on Monday is a planned toast to Clear-Com. In addition, there will be social media-based opportunities to recognize Clear-Com’s history preceding and throughout the NAB Show with pictures or videos. Similar activities will take place later in the year during InfoComm and IBC.

Outside of these events, Boster says it will be business as usual for Clear-Com at the NAB Show, where it will show new products and seek to inform attendees about its offerings.

About a week after the show on April 18, Clear-Com will officially turn 50, though Boster says there will not be any official kind of celebration. Instead, he expects and hopes that all of Clear-Com’s offices will acknowledge and celebrate its birthday through social media or other ways.

Looking back at the company’s history, Boster believes that Clear-Com has had a range of impact across different industries. “It was probably almost a decade in before Clear-Com really discovered its application in the broadcast market,” he said. Other areas of focus included live performance and live event, as well as working with military, government and aerospace sectors.

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Now, as the company sets out toward the future, Boster says the vision remains the same as it has the last few years, which is a “high-degree of investment in new technology with a focus on IP, a focus on wireless.” He also stressed the importance of maintaining the level of customer service that he believes has been integral in Clear-Com’s success to this point.

Clear-Com will be located at booth C6908.