Michael Depp

An uneasy broadcast industry laid its cards on the table with vendors in Amsterdam, pushing budget-consciousness to the forefront, along with an immediate need to extract revenue and efficiencies from their technologies.

At a conference last week focused on CTV monetization, questions of common currency, workflows and the right deliverables yielded few consensus answers. (Michael Depp photo)

No meteorologists have yet been fired from Allen Media Group’s local stations as plans to lean on The Weather Channel’s coverage and technology are evolving, according to a source close to the company.

Sky’s Carys Hughes and Matrox Video’s Catherine Koutsaris will be celebrated as rising stars at TVNewsCheck’s 14th annual Women in Technology Awards at the NAB Show in Las Vegas.

The broadcast convention played out against a backdrop of whipsawing markets as vendors braced for more volatility ahead.

Weather veteran Amy Freeze has taken the news media’s nascent use of AI to another level, building avatars that can predict the weather as well as read it.

DENVER, Colo. — As Adam Lewinson would have it, the age of TV monoculture is now permanently in the rearview mirror. “We’ve gone from the era of peak TV to the era of personalized TV,” Lewinson, Tubi chief content officer, told an audience at the StreamTV Show here last week. “People are watching what’s in their own fandom.” Lewinson said viewers are now ranging between two poles: endless, primarily short-form user-generated content, and premium, paywalled long-form content from uber-streamers like Netflix. For Tubi, the goal is to sit squarely on the equator. To do that, Lewinson said Tubi must hyper-scale …

Devoncroft: Stalled Cloud, AI Surge Mark Broadcast Tech’s Next Stage

CEOs from Ross Video, Amagi and Bitmovin told attendees at Thursday’s Devoncroft Summit that 2025 has been marked by uncertainty but business was still growing.

IP, cloud and AI dominated vendors’ conversations once again, but worries for the industry’s future at large were never far from the surface.