SALT LAKE CITY—At the 2025 NAB Show, April 6-9 in Las Vegas, NVerzion—a provider of broadcast automation and video content management—will show its Web Hybrid Utility, a new solution that redefines broadcast automation by seamlessly blending remote accessibility with NVerzion’s trusted on-premise control.

As the industry moves toward cloud-based operations and remote workflows, NVerzion’s Web Hybrid Utility provides broadcasters with unparalleled flexibility and control. This intuitive web-based platform allows users to manage multiple channels, oversee playout automation, schedule events, and handle media assets—all from any location with an internet connection.

By eliminating traditional software limitations, the Web Hybrid Utility ensures that broadcasters are no longer confined to on-site workstations. With its secure, browser-based access, broadcasters can adapt, scale, and streamline operations without compromising reliability or security.

NVerzion’s web-based control system allows users to securely access and manage automation functions from any device with an internet connection. It seamlessly integrates with NVerzion’s NFinity Video Server and NVerzion’s automation systems, creating a unified and efficient workflow. Featuring an intuitive, browser-based GUI, it eliminates software limitations while enabling remote monitoring, event scheduling, and media management.

Designed with a hybrid approach, it combines real-time remote access with robust on premise support to maximize efficiency, adaptability, and security. Scalable for both local stations and national networks, the system grows with operational demands, ensuring seamless expansion.

Advanced encryption and fail-safe mechanisms enhance security and reliability, maintaining uninterrupted operation. Additionally, its centralized broadcast management consolidates master control, acquisition, and prep into a single, streamlined platform for optimal performance.

“NVerzion has always been at the forefront of broadcast automation,” said Reed Haslam, NVerzion’s Sales Manager. “With the Web Hybrid Utility, we’re giving broadcasters the freedom and flexibility to manage their content anytime, anywhere—without compromising security or efficiency. This hybrid approach is the next step in making broadcast operations more adaptable, scalable, and responsive to modern challenges.”

NVerzion will be showcasing Web Hybrid Utility at booth W3700 in the West Hall of the LVCC.

EUREKA, CA. — KVIQ, the CBS affiliate serving Humboldt County, Calif., has streamlined its workflow with a four-channel NVerzion NFinity broadcast video server with Source Switch technology.

KVIQ wanted to streamline its switching between live and recorded content with a non-hardware solution. NFinity’s Source Switch, a software solution that does not require an external router to change playout sources, offered the functionality KVIQ desired.

The feature allows live switching to any recorded content or full-screen bulletin and provides for simple transitions. The station will use Source Switch to monitor SCTE-35 triggers for the switch.

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The station added the new NFinity video server and an automation workstation devoted to sister station KIEM. The NFinity will be used as the primary playout server for both stations.

Beside live events, NFinity will be used for all regular programming, including syndicated and network shows. NFinity interfaces with KVIQ’s network storage, satellite feed and existing NVerzion automation.

It centralizes various functions, simplifying the station’s workflow. KVIQ will use NFinity’s graphic overlay and EAS capabilities as well as the built-in NFinityView QC tool for quality assurance and quick edits.

“The new recording feature allows linear programming to be automatically segmented. The system watches for a black slate and automatically inserts a marker,” said Danny Fogle, KVIQ VP of operations. “This reduces editing and segmenting time required by master control.”

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KPTS is a public broadcaster serving Wichita, Kan., and its environs since 1970. A PBS affiliate from its founding, KPTS carries all the beloved national programs one expects in addition to producing its own locally popular content — like the round-table discussion “Kansas Week,” and a local news program with an uplifting message, “Positively Kansas.”

NVerzion worked with station personnel to craft a solution to replace end-of-life automation and video servers. The goal was a system that would address their core needs while maintaining flexibility for future expansion.

This new solution turned out to be an ambitious one for the station, consisting of three new NFinity broadcast video servers and a comprehensive NVerzion automation system, with four workstations running NVerzion control and automation software.

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KPTS decided to go with NVerzion equipment for its flexibility and numerous options; all delivered at competitive prices with world-class customer service, according to the station.

According to station staff, the servers’ ability to handle audio sensing and mapping, graphics/bugs, EAS, and that it allows local content playback along with live pass-thru for each of their three channels, was an unbeatable package.

This new NVerzion workflow will be used as the primary on-air broadcast system. They will have automation running three playlists, and the NFinity servers performing record and playback — from local content with live pass-thru — with graphics, bugs and EAS. NFinity also gives production staff the ability to remotely play spots during production.

Jessica Rye, KPTS Broadcast Engineer, identified some major improvements over the existing system: “The automation interfaces with the new Myers BXF traffic system, whereas our outdated system did not. The servers have proven to have enough capabilities to handle more than just record and playback ... and the ability to use it as a channel with the option to switch between live and recorded content ... NVerzion’s Automation system has been a solid foundation with consistency, functionality, and reliability.”

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SALT LAKE CITY—Utah Scientific and NVerzion have officially announced a partnership that will see the two companies integrate their respective product lines, including automation, video servers, master control switchers and video/audio routers, to facilitate a master control environment.

The duo will offer three special packages that will be called Uinta. These packages merge the companies offerings—automation and video servers for NVerzion, master control and routing for Utah Scientific—to address PEG, low-power and full-power markets. Uinta packages can be integrated into existing infrastructures.

The partnership covers all media markets worldwide. The Uinta packages are now available.

SALT LAKE CITY—In an effort to support its two cable channels and student news channel, Lewis University in Chicago has installed the NVerzion NFinity broadcast video server.

The university installed the four channel NFinity server as two in and two out. The unit is controlled with onboard automation, receives files from their editing workstations and will now act as the main ingest and playout server for all Lewis’ video content.

Included in the NVerzion package is the company’s new Source Switch technology. Source Switch enables simple transitions between video content and full page graphics with background audio.

ORLANDO, FLA.—A new multichannel broadcast automation system from NVerzion is streamlining the workflow of two ZGS Communications-owned Telemundo affiliates in Florida, the automation company announced today.

The automation system for each station, WTMO-CD in Orlando and WRMD-CD in Tampa, was designed to be functionally identical, the company said. Management of ZGS Communications emphasized its desire for operational uniformity across multiple channels before installation of the new system. The NVerzion automation system controls a 360 Maxx video server and Sigma Technology Systems 64x64 HD routing switcher.

The new automation system, which is tightly integrated with the existing Marketron traffic system, is used for commercial insertion. The interface of the new automation system and traffic system provides increased stability and reliability, the company said. The system receives cue tones from the network to trigger the start of each break and interfaces with the Evertz Namedropper for station IDs. NVerzion also customized its router control software to support manual operation, which is used by the stations for local broadcast news and entertainment.

According to Gary Faller, regional broadcast IT engineer for the ZGS stations in Florida, the NVerzion installation also provides for multiple trigger outputs and relies on the company’s NControl automation playlist manager.

More information is available on the NVerzion website.

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y.—NVerzion is the latest company to become a Digital Alert Systems (DAS) EAS-NET partner by integrating the DAS EAS-Net communications software with its CloudNine video server platform.

NVerzion joins many other broadcast technology vendors, including Evertz Microsystems, Utah Scientific and Florical, as EAS-Net partners, said Bill Robertson, VP, business development at DAS, Nov. 7 during a telephone interview.

The NVerzion implementation of EAS-Net software gives users of the NVerzion CloudNine video server a direct IP link with the DAS DASDEC emergency messaging platform. No separate audio wiring is necessary, assuring high-quality audio alerting is delivered to the server along with Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) data, he said.

The integration makes it possible for broadcasters and cablecasters using the CloudNine server to meet their mandated EAS/CAP responsibilities from a traditional master control room or other playout environment, the company said.

NVerzion has integrated the DAS EAS/CAP messaging capabilities directly with NVerzion’s graphics overlay and audio playback systems. “It’s not an upstream keyer or a downstream keyer [in the CloudNine server],” said NVerzion President Scott Murphy in a phone interview. “We call it an inter-stream keyer.”

Stations are required to broadcast emergency alerts in text form and as audio, said DAS’s Robertson. “The way NVerzion did it is to provide a background color to represent the severity of the alert.”

NVerzion’s implementation inspects the essence of an incoming alert message and without creating a delay triggers a background color that’s appropriate to the emergency warning to be broadcast—for instance, green for a test, yellow for a watch and red for a warning, said Robertson.

“They [NVerzion] have gone beyond the basic ‘throw a crawl up there’ by understanding the essence of the alert and representing it on screen for viewers in a colorful way,” he added.

The CloudNine server with the EAS/CAP messaging integration is especially well-suited for broadcast operations on tight budgets, such as digital subchannels, Murphy added.

More information is available on the NVerzion website and the DAS website.

SALT LAKE CITY—Syndicated television distributor PMI-TV serves the Pittsburg area and recently needed to replace its aging video server system after the manufacturer discontinued support; it did so with NVerzion’s CloudNine broadcast video servers.

Key for PMI was installing new video servers that could coexist with its current automation system, so NVerzion designed a system with the CloudNine servers that would not disturb PMI’s workflow. With the CloudNine’s ability to offer direct playback of file formats like MXF, GXF and MOV without transcoding, the servers can interface directly with network components.

The CloudNine servers will also allow for capturing master content from tape and then export the file over their network. The video servers interface with the central storage system, allowing for transfer without using the editing workstations.

NVerzion worked with PMI prior to the installation to design the specifics of the system.

SALT LAKE CITY–Indiana University ‘s WTIU-TV has upgraded its production workflow by adopting NVerzion CLASS, using the platform for automation, storage management and recording and file delivery.

The PBS affiliate airs four digital channels reaching 29 counties across west and south central Indiana, in addition to producing content for local, regional, and national programs. To manage its extensive responsibilities, WTIU said it needed a workflow system that streamlined operations and simplified tasks. The station also needed a system compatible with its current infrastructure.

“Recently, our automation system reached its end of life, and we needed a new platform that supports legacy third-party equipment with minimal complexity,” said George Hopstetter, director of operations and engineering at WTIU-TV. The station’s Grass Valley K2 Central video server, Utah Scientific UTAH-400 Series router, Sony IMX and HDCAM video recorders, ChyronHego Channel Box and Myers ProTrack traffic system all co-exist on the CLASS platform.

Jim Peacher

SALT LAKE CITY—Digital broadcast tools and station automation provider NVerzion has announced the appointment of Jim Peacher to the position of business development manager for the company’s CloudNine video server. He will oversee the product’s market growth and look to open up additional distribution channels.

Peacher joins the NVerzion team from LPC Consulting, where he worked as a sales and marketing consultant. He has also previously held sales leadership positions with Crispin, Florical Systems, Clear-Com and ASC/Leitch Technology.

Peacher will be based out of Woodland, Calif. He will report directly to Scott Murphy, NVerzion president.

SALT LAKE CITY—Digital broadcasting and television station automation provider NVerzion has announced that an upgraded version of its Component Level Automation System Solutions is on its way to the Palm Beach County School District in Florida. The system is meant to improve workflow efficiency for the district’s television station, The Education Network.

T.E.N. controls playlists and servers for playback across its four core channels, which air online, over-the-air and on cable, to broadcast news, live events, meetings and professional development programming. The CLASS system features hardware and software components to provide a flexible and scalable automation system, according to NVerzion. These include NControl on-air playlists, NGest professional dubbing and recording software, NPoint video preparation software for segmenting and trimming, NBase SQL media database manager, and EMC-Router Ethernet machine control.

The CLASS system enables the school district to control third-party equipment. It can also eliminate single point of failures within the broadcaster’s file-based workflow.

The Palm Beach County School District uses T.E.N. to deliver programming to more than 800,000 cable and online viewers, including 185 schools and 165,000 students, per NVerzion’s press release.

SALT LAKE CITY—Peoria TV has made the transition to a file-based, HD workflow with the help from NVerzion and its automation and video server systems. NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions platform and CloudNine cloud-based video server was installed by Peoria TV, a government access channel run by the City of Peoria, Ariz. The two systems are able to streamline tasks for the station, such as recording, HD upconversion, scheduling, playback, and data transfers.

In preparation of migrating to an all-HD workflow, Peoria TV copied its SD files to the CloudNine server, upconverting the files to 1080i. With the video server, the station can also simultaneously record and play out new audio and video content, as well as legacy content, without worrying about file format compatibilities.

The CLASS system is built on an open architecture that allows Peoria TV to control third-party equipment. The automation system helps guarantee the station’s on-air presentation by eliminating any single point of failure with the broadcaster’s file-based workflow. CLASS’ scalability allows it to add more features in the future.

NVerzion is a provider of digital broadcast automation tools that streamline workflows from acquisition to distribution and playout of content.

SALT LAKE CITY—It’s out with the old and in with the new as the East Tennessee PBS Station, WETP-TV, has announced that it is replacing its previous automation system with NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions. The CLASS system handles master control, playout and media asset management operations and offers integration with third-party equipment.

WETP will use the CLASS system to support its main HD channel and two subchannels. Hardware and software components are included with the automation system, including NControl on-air playlists, NGest professional dubbing and recording software, NPoint video preparation software for segmenting and trimming, NBase SQL media database manager, NView database viewer, NCommand machine status and control, NConvert traffic interface, NTime time-driven event scheduling, EMC Ethernet Machine Control.

In addition to control of third-party equipment from companies like Harmonic and Sony, WETP’s CLASS system also features an NVerzion TeraStore nearline storage archive system that controls the station’s active storage system. It also comes with a creative protocol interface module (CPIM) that supports BXF format for internal communications and workflow efficiencies, providing a two-way communication between traffic and automation with real-time updates.

The CLASS system will also allow for the addition of more features and infrastructure upgrades as needed. This includes the support of additional channels and subchannels.

WETP-TV is a PBS member station that covers East Tennessee, Southern Kentucky, Southeast Virginia and Western North Carolina.

NVerzion is a provider of digital broadcast automation tools, located in Salt Lake City.

SALT LAKE CITY—Eureka, Calif.’s CBS TV station, KVIQ-TV, recently added the NVerzion Content Level Automation System Solutions, which includes the CloudNine cloud-based video server, to speed up its file-based workflow and content delivery process.

The CloudNine video server allows KVIQ to simultaneously record and play out audio and video content from third-party commercial and program-delivery systems, as well as update metadata. Using an active loop-through input, the CloudNine monitors the CBS network feed. CBS also provides a VANC trigger that CloudNine detects to start the automation playlist for commercial insertion playout. CloudNine also helps roll out commercials and create ad overlays, including bugs, banners, bulletin boards, crawls, text, and simple animation.

In addition to the CloudNine, NVerzion’s CLASS includes multiple hardware and software components. Among the additional components are the NControl on-air playlists, NGest professional dubbing and recording software, NPoint video presentation software for segmenting and trimming, NBase SQL media database manager, NTime time-driven event scheduling, NConvert manual and automated traffic interface, NCompass dynamic FTP manager, and EMC-Router Ethernet machine control.

The CLASS system aids in the acquisition, prep, and playout operations of KVIQ, as well as enables the broadcaster to control third-party equipment. CLASS also eliminates any single point of failure within the broadcasters’ file-based workflow. KVIQ has the ability to add more features and support additional channels or subchannels to CLASS.

SALT LAKE CITY – KSMQ-TV, the PBS station in Austin, Minn., has recently acquired a NVerzion Component Level Automation System Solutions to help its transition from SD to HD. With CLASS, KSMQ is able to speed up its operations and improve on-air presentation.

KSMQ’s CLASS system includes a variety of hardware and software applications, including NControl on-air playlists; NGest professional dubbing and recording software; NPoint video preparation software; NGenius intelligent storage browser, which is able to manage data via an on-site 40TB Microsoft Windows NAS system; and more.

CLASS also allows KSMQ to control third-party equipment and interfaces with KSMQ’s existing nearline storage system as a Windows shared environment. It also eliminates any single point of failure within the station’s file-based workflow for the integrity of on-air presentation. The station is now able to perform upgrades as the need arises and support additional channels and subchannels.

NVerzion is a digital broadcast automation tool provider based in Salt Lake City.