Riedel Communications announced the appointment of Marco Kraft as Head of Sales for Germany. In his new role, Kraft will manage the company’s sales and rental businesses serving the German broadcast and AV markets, reporting directly to Jens Miedek, Sales Director at Riedel. More
STATS has announced the appointment of Lisa Ackerman as Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Ackerman will work to develop and expand customer relations with STATS’ partners across the portfolio. More
ESPN and The R&A, the organizer of The Open Championship, have reached a three-year renewal for rights on all means and media throughout Latin America, including Brazil and the Caribbean, for golf’s oldest major, it was announced by Tim Bunnell, senior vice president of production, programming, marketing and advertising sales, ESPN International. The new agreement […] More
Boston’s WGBH-TV recently completed a significant upgrade of its production infrastructure with new equipment from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand. The station installed two new routers, a new router control system, and new multiviewers to improve production capabilities and enhance the efficiency of its workflow. WGBH is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station that […] More
Altitude Sports & Entertainment has chosen Octopus Newsroom as its technology partner to enhance production efficiency. A multi-seat Octopus 8 newsroom computer software suite has been installed at Altitude’s Network Operations Center in Centennial, Colorado. More
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced that Major League Baseball (MLB) has chosen AWS as its official provider for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning workloads. In extending its long-standing relationship, MLB will use AWS machine learning services to continue development of Statcast — the tracking technology that runs on AWS to analyze […] More
Ratings roundup is a rundown of rating news from the past week and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s edition, the 2018 MLB Home Run Derby was won by Bryce Harper, the MLB All-Star game was won by the American League after an extra-inning affair, the final numbers […] More
Audio-Technica has recognized West Chester, PA-based firm Lienau AV Associates with its Samurai Award for the 2017/2018 fiscal year, for representing Audio-Technica in the territory of Metro New York City. This is the second year in a row the company has been recognized with this award, having previously won last year for covering the territory […] More
Avid announced it has won the 2018 Microsoft US Partner Award for the communications and media industry. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. More
xG Technology announced that its IMT Vislink business has entered into a reseller partnership with Houston, Texas-based Broadcast Technical Services (BTS). IMT Vislink and BTS will collaborate on the sale, integration, service, and support of IMT Vislink’s wireless camera systems, including the HCAM 4K UHD transmitter, MicroLite 2 midmarket system, and the miniaturized IMTDragonFly, in […] More
