All broadcasting articles – Page 6
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Industry TrendsNew industry group helping ‘colleagues, families and friends’ in Ukraine
With backing from broadcast vendors and integrators, Support for Ukraine Media Professionals is already identifying employment opportunities for refugees and assisting those still in the war-hit country.
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Video
IBC Accelerators 2021: AI Bias detection
With hundreds of thousands of hours of content being produced by, and for newsrooms daily, the quest to automate many labour-intensive and laborious physical tasks within production workflows continues to challenge broadcasters and news agencies.
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Industry Trends
‘Skyrocketing’ interest leads to bold broadcast plans for Women’s Cricket World Cup
Currently taking place in New Zealand, the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup is the 12th edition of the tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and promises to offer more diverse, more informative and just more coverage than ever before.
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News
Creative studio to train university students in virtual production as industry demand grows
Final Pixel Academy and the University of Greenwich have partnered to offer a Virtual Production (VP) Skills Course to third-year film and TV students to help address a skills gap in the sector.
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Industry Trends
Gender Diversity in Broadcast Technology: How are Vendors and Organisations Responding?
A lack of gender diversity continues to be a problem in the field of broadcast engineering. In part one of this article, we focused on the working environment for women employed by broadcasters, but what are vendors and industry organisations doing to address this imbalance?
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News
SMPTE opens call for papers for 2022 annual technical conference
Technical paper proposals can now be submitted for SMPTE’s Media Technology Summit, formerly the Annual Technical Conference. SMPTE is also accepting proposals for participation in the Storytellers series.
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News
Entertainment and tech firms pull out of Russia
Netflix and Avid have become the latest entertainment companies to stop doing business in Russia as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
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Rise launches annual mentoring schemes, adding north and central Europe, as well as ANZ to its expanding global locations
Rise, an advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, has launched its mentoring schemes for 2022-2023.
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Industry Trends
IWD: Gender diversity in broadcast technology: More needs to be done
International Women’s Day: Technology has a reputation for being solely the domain of white men, and broadcast engineering is no exception. In fact, historically, it has had less gender diversity than other technology industries. But in this era of increasing focus on diversity, how is broadcasting doing?
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News
Serious Fraud Office opens criminal investigation into Arena TV collapse
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has begun a criminal investigation into Arena Television, the outside broadcast firm that collapsed into administration last year.
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Versa expands Manchester studio footprint
TV and film studio business Versa Studios has opened Versa ABC, a 5,000 sq ft ‘studio in the sky’ overlooking Manchester City centre.
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Industry Trends
Global supply chain worsens outlook for vast majority of broadcast kit suppliers
86% of vendors report impact on financial sustainability if shortages and high prices exist for another 12 months, reports IABM, exclusively revealed by IBC.
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Daily News
Veset achieves ISO certification
Cloud native linear channel management platform Veset has received certification in two areas of information security: ISO27001 and ISO27017.
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Industry Trends
Super Bowl LVI: How NBC is preparing for Super Gold Sunday
The Super Bowl is usually the biggest day in the US broadcast calendar but this year it touches down in the middle of 2,800 hours of Beijing Winter Olympics coverage, so what will NBC do to make it standout?
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News
Grupo Televisa and Univision complete $4.8bn deal
Spanish-language media giants Grupo Televisa and Univision have closed their $4.8 billion merger.
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News
BBC Three returns to broadcast TV
BBC Three returns as a broadcast channel this week – nearly six years after it moved online.
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News
Dawn Airey named interim chair of Channel 4
Broadcasting veteran Dawn Airey has been appointed as Channel 4’s interim chair, replacing Charles Gurassa who departs on 27 January 2022.
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News
Comment: Imagine Communications’ John Mailhot explains why HDR is a genuine game-changer
While bringing UHD and HDR into production is hardly without its challenges, the results can often be fantastic, says Imagine Communications’ CTO, Networking & Infrastructure, John Mailhot.
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News
Collapsed Arena TV kit to be auctioned off
Over 3,000 items, from outside broadcasting trucks to cameras, lenses and hundreds of kilometres of cabling, are to be auctioned off following the collapse into administration of Arena TV.
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News
BBC boss: licence fee is vital to success of UK creative industries
BBC director general Tim Davie has marked the start of the corporation’s centenary year with a strong defence of the BBC licence fee, arguing that its funding mechanism allows it to take risks and to play a crucial role helping the UK creative industries to thrive.
