U.S. Court Upholds Some Patents in LG ATSC 3.0 Infringement Case
A U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict that LG Electronics willfully infringed Constellation Designs’ patents used in its NextGen TVs, confirming a $1.68 million past‑damages award and a $6.75 per‑TV royalty for future sales. The court affirmed most findings but vacated those related to optimization claims, remanding the case for further review. LG announced it will cease selling NextGen‑enabled televisions after the loss, while other major brands continue to offer ATSC 3.0 models. The patents at issue expire in 2028, limiting long‑term disruption.
NBC Sports’ NBA Playoff Viewership Up 58%
NBC Sports reported that its NBA playoff coverage on NBC and Peacock averaged 4.9 million viewers during the first 13 games, a 58% increase over the same period last year. The surge created the most‑watched comparable playoff window since 1996 and...
Study: Paramount-WBD Deal Signals New Era of Streaming Scale
Parks Associates' latest research indicates that the proposed Paramount‑Warner Bros. Discovery merger would extend the combined company's reach to 57% of U.S. internet households, putting it on a level with Netflix, Google, Amazon and Disney. The study shows the four current...
FCC Proposes to Amend Audible Crawl Rule to Preserve Accessibility
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to amend the Audible Crawl Rule, a regulation that requires broadcasters to provide an audio description of visual emergency information for blind and visually impaired viewers. After eleven years of delays and six postponements,...
CPI Media Deploys QuickLink StudioCall
CPI Media, the production arm of Malta’s Missionary Society of St Paul, has integrated QuickLink StudioCall into its broadcast workflow. The browser‑based solution lets clergy, guests and community members join live productions from anywhere without installing software, while delivering studio‑grade audio...
FCC Approves Station Swaps Between Scripps and Gray Media
The Federal Communications Commission has cleared a series of station swaps between Scripps and Gray Media, first announced in July 2025. The exchanges, valued equally, involve no cash and create new duopolies in several U.S. markets. Licenses moving from Gray...
MLS Innovation Lab Selects AI Partners
Major League Soccer announced the 2026 cohort of its Innovation Lab, selecting five AI‑focused startups to test cutting‑edge solutions in player performance, fan engagement, and media production. The lab, now in its third year, will trial these technologies at high‑profile...
Study: Roku's Low-Cost, Ad-Free Howdy Streamer Hits 1 Million Subs
Roku’s ad‑free streaming service Howdy, priced at $2.99 per month, has surpassed 1 million subscribers since its August 2025 launch. The Antenna study shows the service added roughly 300 K users in its first month and continues to attract over 100 K new subscribers...
Clear-Com Promotes Brian Grahn, Ben Turnwell to Expanded Roles
Clear‑Com announced two senior promotions to broaden its market engagement. Brian Grahn, who joined in 2022, is now market outreach manager for the Americas, focusing on consultant‑driven outreach in themed entertainment and cruise‑line sectors. Ben Turnwell, based in the UK,...
‘ATSC 1.0 Must Go’
At the 2026 NAB Show, Sinclair/ONE Media displayed a bold "ATSC 1.0 Must Go" message, underscoring industry pressure to retire the legacy digital‑TV standard. Proponents argue that only by sunsetting ATSC 1.0 can broadcasters fully exploit ATSC 3.0’s spectrum efficiency and new data services. Meanwhile,...
Analysts: Non-Sports Programming Is Becoming `Irrelevant’ to Broadcast TV Viewership
Analysts at LightShed Partners argue that non‑sports programming has become virtually irrelevant to broadcast TV, citing a 75% drop in primetime viewership over the past 20 years while NFL audiences have risen more than 30%. They note that NFL games...
TV Tech Announces Winners of Best of Show Awards at 2026 NAB Show
TV Tech announced the winners of its Best of Show Awards at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. A panel of engineers and industry experts evaluated more than 70 products on innovation, feature set, perceived value and real‑world application....
Chyron Announces PRIME Translate
Chyron has launched PRIME Translate, an AI‑driven workflow that adds real‑time multilingual translation to live broadcasts. The solution creates hyper‑realistic facial movement, synchronized audio and graphic overlays, enabling one‑to‑many language outputs from a single production. Built on NVIDIA Holoscan and AI...
How AI-Powered Media Asset Management Is Reshaping Broadcast Workflows
Broadcast producers are grappling with unprecedented volumes of high‑resolution media, exposing the limits of legacy Media Asset Management (MAM) systems. AI‑driven tools now auto‑generate metadata, apply speech‑to‑text transcription, and recognize objects, shrinking asset search times from minutes to seconds. These...
Anchor Audio Launches Beacon 3
Anchor Audio unveiled the Beacon 3, the latest portable sound system in its Beacon line, aimed at schools, sports venues, events, and public‑safety applications. The new model offers enhanced sound clarity, a rugged build, Bluetooth streaming and up to four wireless...
Heidi Steffen to Become President of TitanTV
TitanTV announced that chief revenue officer Heidi Steffen will assume the role of president on May 11 2026, succeeding retiring president Mick Rinehart. Steffen is celebrated for her expertise in broadcast metadata quality and has authored a recent industry white paper. CEO Chris Kelly highlighted...
Clear-Com Unveils FreeSpeak Cell
Clear-Com introduced FreeSpeak Cell, a cellular‑based wireless intercom system that runs on LTE and 5G networks. Debuting at the 2026 NAB Show, the solution targets large‑scale productions by leveraging public and private cellular infrastructure instead of traditional RF spectrum. It supports...
Calrec and Grass Valley Unveil ImPulseV and AMPP Integration
Calrec and Grass Valley announced a long‑term partnership to embed Calrec's ImPulseV virtual DSP into Grass Valley's AMPP cloud‑native production platform, debuting the integration at the 2026 NAB Show. The joint solution creates a single software‑defined environment that unifies audio...
Streaming’s Subscription Reset: Why Agentic AI Will Decide the Next Phase of Growth
Netflix’s recent push into live sports illustrates how event‑driven spikes can quickly attract new subscribers, but the real challenge lies in retaining them once the hype fades. Across the streaming sector, churn spikes after marquee events as engagement drops. While...
ATSC Offers ATSC 3.0 Guide to 2026 NAB Show
ATSC is showcasing its next‑generation broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas with a free guide highlighting exhibitors and sessions. The organization will host roughly 30 panels and feature more than 40 member companies, including major players...
Vizrt To Feature Newly Introduced AI Keyer At 2026 NAB Show
Vizrt will debut its AI‑powered Keyer at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, demonstrating a tool that automatically isolates human subjects and inserts AR graphics without green screens. The solution, trained on diverse real‑world footage, works in any lighting condition...
Apex-RF To Launch RAINIER Wireless Camera Transmission System At 2026 NAB Show
Apex‑RF is debuting its RAINIER wireless camera transmission system at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The solution delivers sub‑50 ms latency, 4K 12G SDR/HDR video, and Wi‑Fi 7 mesh networking across 5‑7.3 GHz. RAINIER combines video, camera control, intercom and IP infrastructure into...
2026 NAB Show Exhibitor Insight: LTN
LTN unveiled major upgrades to its global IP video network at the 2026 NAB Show, promising 99.9999% reliability, full‑market reach and up to 60% lower distribution costs as C‑band spectrum repurposing pressures satellite capacity. The enhancements add expanded monitoring, a...
Microsoft Previews 2026 NAB Show Trends, Plans
Microsoft is rebranding its media role at the 2026 NAB Show, shifting from a silent enterprise backbone to a software‑defined broadcasting leader. The company will showcase AI‑driven production tools, including Copilot’s agent‑to‑agent workflows, and emphasize its Azure‑based security stack for...
Wowza Launches Video Intelligence Framework
Wowza announced the general availability of its Video Intelligence Framework, a solution that embeds AI directly into live‑streaming workflows. The framework extracts frames, runs inference, and outputs real‑time metadata, clips, alerts and event signals without separate pipelines. It works alongside...
Clear-Com Introduces Arcadia and Eclipse HX Updates
Clear‑Com unveiled major upgrades to its Arcadia Central Station and the Eclipse HX digital matrix, now running EHX v15 software. The new ARC (Access, Resource, Configuration) architecture decouples hardware from system behavior, turning intercom into a software‑defined platform. Capacity has been expanded...
CentralCast Deploys Harmonic to Deliver Improved Efficiencies for Public Media Stations
Harmonic announced that CentralCast, the master‑control hub for U.S. public‑media stations, has deployed Harmonic’s XOS Advanced Media Processor to serve more than 170 channels. The XOS platform consolidates media‑processing and distribution, delivering 176 transport streams while lowering per‑channel bitrate and...
NAB Show 2026: Sony Announces New Cameras, Virtual Production Tools
Sony unveiled its new R Series system cameras at NAB Show 2026, expanding the HDC‑5000 and HDC‑3000 families with higher dynamic range, modular transmission options, and consistent color matching. The company also rolled out AI‑driven firmware updates for PTZ units...
AJA to Acquire Video Encoding Software Company Comprimato
AJA Video Systems announced an agreement to acquire Comprimato, a specialist in live video encoding and processing software. The acquisition will merge Comprimato’s portfolio—including Live Transcoder, Standards Conversion, the Twenty‑One Encoder, and a JPEG 2000 SDK—into AJA’s Bridge Live IP streaming...
CTS Taps Diversified to Expand Global Playout and Distribution Capabilities
Diversified has teamed with Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) to expand CTS’s global Broadcast Operations Center in Colorado. The upgrade adds a fully IP‑based playout environment built on SMPTE ST 2110, advanced monitoring and centralized network operations. By embedding Diversified engineers on‑site,...
Sports on TV: The Public Already Paid; Why Are Fans Paying Again?
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an antitrust inquiry into the NFL’s television‑rights strategy, questioning whether the league’s bundling and platform‑splitting practices limit competition. At the same time, fans are facing a fragmented streaming ecosystem that can cost $1,000...
WTVision to Unveil R³ Engine Running Natively on macOS at 2026 NAB Show
wTVision will debut its R³ Engine, the first real‑time broadcast graphics renderer built natively for macOS, at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The engine uses Apple’s Metal framework and pairs with Macnica’s MEP100 SmartNIC to provide SMPTE ST 2110‑compatible IP...
Grass Valley Adds Telestream Vantage, Pulse and UP to AMPP
Grass Valley announced that Telestream’s Vantage, Pulse and UP solutions will be integrated into its Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP). The partnership creates a unified, open architecture that lets broadcasters orchestrate, process and monitor live and file‑based workflows across on‑prem,...
Blackmagic to Launch Camera For Live Production on Apple Immersive Video at 2026 NAB Show
Blackmagic Design will debut the URSA Cine Immersive 100G, the first live‑production cinema camera built for Apple Vision Pro, at the NAB 2026 show. The camera uses dual 8K×8K RGBW sensors, 16 stops of dynamic range and 100G Ethernet to stream immersive video...
NAB Show: LiveU to Showcase LU900Q's 'Quantum Leap' In Intelligent Connectivity, Workflows
LiveU unveiled its LU900Q encoding platform at the 2026 NAB Show, positioning it as the company’s first AI‑powered, intelligent production unit. The compact device combines native LiveU IQ, eSIM, 5G modems and a MIMO antenna to deliver 4:2:2 encoding, dual‑camera...
FCC Extends Audible Crawl Rule Waiver for 18 Months
The Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau has granted an 18‑month waiver, extending the pause on the Audible Crawl Rule until November 29, 2027. The rule, adopted in 2013, requires broadcasters to provide an audio description of visual emergency graphics for blind and...
2026 NAB Show Exhibitor Insights: Big Blue Marble
At the 2026 NAB Show, Big Blue Marble highlighted the accelerating convergence of broadcast and streaming into a single delivery ecosystem. Senior Solutions Architect Rene van Koll emphasized adaptive, cloud‑native architectures, multi‑CDN strategies, AI‑driven orchestration and autonomous resilience for live events. The company’s...
SMPTE to Host First-of-Its-Kind ST 2110 IP Media Roadshow at 2026 NAB Show
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) will host a full‑day, in‑person ST 2110 IP Media Roadshow bootcamp at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 21. The program runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and delivers six hands‑on modules...
Corus Taps Appear for IP-First Operations
Corus Entertainment has partnered with Appear to replace its legacy leased‑circuit news contribution network with an IP‑first architecture that uses the SRT protocol. The upgrade leverages Appear’s X Platform and a Skyline Dataminer‑driven orchestration layer to consolidate media processing and...
NAB Show: Kokusai Denki To Feature New, Affordable 4K Broadcast Camera
Kokusai Denki Electric America will unveil the Z‑HD6500‑S1, an affordable native 4K broadcast camera, and the RU‑2500JY remote control panel at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The camera uses a 2/3‑inch UHD sensor and global‑shutter technology, mirroring the...
Zixi To Feature IP-Based Alternative To Satellite Distribution At 2026 NAB Show
Zixi will demonstrate an IP‑based alternative to satellite distribution at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, highlighting how broadcasters can modernize live‑video workflows. The company’s booth and partner stations will showcase centralized orchestration, dynamic market switching, and end‑to‑end IP contribution...
Grass Valley Launches Future Playmakers Program
Grass Valley has introduced the Future Playmakers Program, a global initiative aimed at cultivating the next generation of sports production and media technology professionals. The program offers up to ten annual scholarships, hands‑on training with industry‑standard equipment, and direct collaboration...
Hearst’s WDSU to Air Million Dollar Rodeo Competition
Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans has secured exclusive rights to air the Hondo Rodeo Fest’s three‑night, million‑dollar competition from April 10‑12 at the Caesars Superdome. The event blends high‑stakes rodeo, a multi‑day concert lineup featuring Jason Aldean, Creed and other...
The WNET Group, JIB Launch NHK World-Japan in New York
The WNET Group and Japan International Broadcasting have launched the English‑language NHK World‑Japan channel on WLIW’s digital subchannel 21.3, effective April 1. The service is also being carried by major cable providers such as Optimum, Spectrum, Comcast, Verizon Fios and Astound/RCN...
Elite Media Technologies Selects Interra Systems’ BATON QC Solution
Interra Systems announced that Elite Media Technologies has chosen its BATON file‑based quality‑control platform for its master‑level audio, video and IMF/DCP workflows. Elite highlighted BATON’s automated audio‑video analysis, scalable architecture, and support for both SDR and HDR content as key...
Manifold To Feature Support For 400GbE COTS FPGA Accelerator Cards At 2026 NAB Show
Manifold Technologies will showcase support for 400 GbE commercial‑off‑the‑shelf FPGA accelerator cards at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The manifold CLOUD platform can now harness up to four 400 Gbps cards per server, delivering a total of 4.8 Tbps of media processing....
Ex-FCC Commissioners, Consumer Groups Back FCC in Supreme Court Filing
The Supreme Court will hear a consolidated case on the FCC’s authority to levy civil penalties after the agency fined Verizon, AT&T and T‑Mobile nearly $200 million for exposing customers’ location data. Former FCC chairs Reed Hundt and Tom Wheeler, joined...
Altibox Taps Comcast Technology Solutions for Centralized Video Management
Comcast Technology Solutions has been chosen by Altibox, the Scandinavian IPTV leader, to power its next‑generation Altibox TV service using CTS’s Cloud Video Platform. The cloud‑based solution will handle on‑demand ingest, metadata, rights management and multi‑tenant asset consolidation for subscribers...
2026 NAB Show Exhibitor Insight: Netgear
Netgear’s AV chief CJ Prober says the broadcast industry is shifting from early‑adopter to early‑majority adoption of IP‑based workflows, moving beyond experimental pilots toward operational reality. Most facilities now run hybrid environments where SMPTE ST 2110 IP systems coexist with...
NBC Announces Exclusive Coverage of Sail4th 250 Tall Ships in NYC
NBCUniversal Local’s stations have launched “Our 250,” a 100‑day, multiplatform campaign marking the United States’ 250th anniversary. The initiative culminates on July 4 with six hours of exclusive, bilingual live coverage of the Sail4th 250 maritime celebration in New York Harbor. NBC...