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The North American Broadcasters Association is heading to sunny California for its Annual General meeting, specifically the Los Angeles area.

If authors want to be considered to present a technical paper at the SMPTE 2018 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, they have until May 28 to submit their proposals, according to an official announcement from SMPTE.

The American Cable Association has announced that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will be a keynote speaker at the 25th ACA Summit, which is slated to take place from March 20-22 in Washington, D.C.

Paper proposals are now being accepted for the Fall Technical Forum at SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2018.

With a new focus on acquiring content that was previously relegated to pay TV services, social media and tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google are focusing more on disrupting traditional pay TV, director of USC’s Annenberg School of Media Innovation Lab and author Jonathan Taplin told an audience at the opening keynote of the NCTC Winter Educational Conference.

Behind the CES glitz of bigger and brighter video displays, voice-activated media controls and high-speed wireless delivery, Next Generation TV was taking shape.

Actus Digital will take up a spot in the Innovation Zone at the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat to showcase its latest improvements of its Clip Factory system, which handles broadcast to OTT clip creation and publishing.

The 2018 IEEE Broadcast Symposium is slated to take place Oct. 9-11, but the organization is already accepting submissions for papers to be presented at the event.

Signiant isn’t heading out to Palm Desert just to get some R&R, the company will be there to take part in the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat and showcase updates to its SaaS platform designed for media and entertainment companies.

The America’s Public Television Stations’ annual Public Media Summit will take time this year to honor Mark Richer, ATSC president, with its 2018 EDGE Award for Excellence in Digital Innovation.

With the theme of “Making IP Video Production a Reality,” VidTrans 2018 is pulling out the stops for attendees, among which will be an interoperability demonstration of technologies for transporting uncompressed video and audio over IP, including the AMWA NMOS IS-06 Interop.

Annual gathering will also examine the realities of consumer tech adoption

Five federal policymakers offered their familiar visions of core regulatory issues, including spectrum policy and net neutrality, during CES sessions.

On the second day of CES, at about 11:15 am, the lights flickered and went out in the massive Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center where the sprawling booths of Samsung, LG, Sony, Intel and hundreds more exhibits went dark.

At a CES panel on Tuesday, panelists discussed that even though the media landscape is continuing to evolve, TV remains a major factor, particularly when it comes to advertising.

Celebrating its centenary, Panasonic presented perhaps its most expansive array of new products at CES in years.