News Operations

Blackmagic Design has announced that The Daily Aus, one of Australia’s leading social first news services, is completing daily news stories for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and various podcast channels using Blackmagic Design cameras, switchers and DaVinci Resolve. The Daily Aus is one of the world’s first news services producing...

Autocue has announced a radical shakeup of its range of prompters designed to ensure speed, simplicity, and sustainability. The Autocue range now comprises three distinct series of teleprompters, each with unique features and advantages. The Explorer Series provides comprehensive prompting packages with simple HDMI teleprompters and professional prompting software suitable...

at the recently held NAB Show, Brompton Technology demonstrated TrueLight for the first time. Driven by the new Tessera G1, the receiver card enables full calibration of the pixels and control of the light spectrum emitted by an LED panel with a broader spectral output, by utilising extra emitters...

During NAB, Zero Density recently announced ZD | Virtual Studio, a new software bundle that lowers the barrier of entry into virtual production. ZD | Virtual Studio is made up of real-time keying and graphics control applications that make it easy for anyone to create photoreal virtual sets. With ZD...

At NAB 2023, Avid is presenting its tech preview demo of Avid | Stream IO, a new flexible software-based platform for production ingest and playout delivered through the convenience of subscription. With a flexible architecture that can be configured to ingest or play out IP streams and SDI streams, Avid...

Today Zero Density has announced ZD | OAG, an on-air graphics solution that gives broadcasters all the software and hardware they need to leverage Unreal Engine for any production including news, entertainment, elections and more. Featuring the latest Ada generation NVIDIA GPU and Zero Density graphics software, ZD |...

Brainstorm is demonstrating the latest version of its renowned InfinitySet, the company’s most advanced virtual set and XR/AR solution, at NAB (booth N2639). With Version 5.2, InfinitySet receives a number of advanced features designed to enhance virtual production (VP) and XR workflows, streamlining users’ ability to boost their content...

CueScript debuts a new cloud-based service, CueTALK Cloud, at NAB 2023 (booth C4421). This new cloud offering is designed to allow CueScripts’ prompting software CueiT- and CueTALK-enabled devices, which feature the latest in IP connectivity, to communicate over Wi-Fi. This brings an enhanced level of flexibility to users working...

nxtedition has successfully integrated OpenAI Whisper, a cutting-edge speech-to-text artificial intelligence, into its standard platform. Through the user-friendly nxtedition interface, OpenAI can transcribe and translate content in real-time as needed, utilising either nxtedition’s private cloud hardware or public cloud-based infrastructure. As a result, the time and cost of accessing...

AccuWeather recently announced the introduction of WeatherShow Enhancer, a newly developed software and hardware display system built on AccuWeather’s popular StoryTeller+ Touchscreen System. The Enhancer will immediately give you a distinct and superior look through significantly increased special effects. It will multiply the capabilities of your current weather system...

nxtedition, the developer of microservices-based production environments, makes its debut at NAB 2023 (booth C1819) where it says it will demonstrate that the workflow of the future is available today. According to the company, visitors to the show will see just how easy nxtedition makes it to access an entire...

Cradlepoint recently announced the R2100 Series 5G Ruggedised Router, adding to Cradlepoint’s growing 5G Wireless WAN portfolio. Built for vehicle and IoT networks, the sleek exterior-mounted solution provides mass transit, public safety, and other organisations that require a high-bandwidth IoT or mobile router with the latest cellular performance in...

PlayBox Neo announces a further expansion to the software connectivity of its television channel branding and studio playout servers with support now provided for the Arion newsroom system from SNews Broadcast Solutions. SNews has long experience in developing software-based newsroom production systems for an international clientele. "This is the latest...

disguise has released Porta 2.1, an update to its integrated software solution that lets users easily manage Unreal Engine graphics directly within their existing workflows – now with their latest News Room Computer System (NRCS) integration through MOS protocol. With its new NRCS integration, Porta 2.1 users can control real-time...

Reporting data-driven stories means following a process. That's according to Mike Reilly and Samantha Sunne, authors of Data + Journalism, a book which takes you from A to Z, from acquiring data to scraping, cleaning, analysing, writing and visualising data. The book also addresses how to share data and build...

Avid today has updates to its MediaCentral workflow platform, including the new MediaCentral | Acquire IP-based ingest scheduler, along with remote collaboration and improved hybrid working support. These innovative capabilities empower media companies to accelerate production on premises and in the cloud. The introduction of MediaCentral | Acquire adds...

disguise, the technology platform enabling live experiences and virtual productions, has reengineered its learning program to a new offering named disguise Learn. disguise Learn’s new in-classroom and online courses provide an improved experience offering dedicated learning pathways for virtual production, extended reality, broadcast graphics, location-based experiences and live events...

Flowics recently announced a new technology partnership with Harmonic. The two companies are enabling customers to add state-of-the-art graphics created in the Flowics platform into video feeds streaming on channels originating from Harmonic's VOS360 cloud SaaS platform and industry-leading Spectrum X Advanced Media Server. The VOS360 platform simplifies all stages...

GlobalM and Matrox Video recently announced that BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, worked with GlobalM’s cloud-based SRT distribution platform to stream Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. Using the GlobalM SRT distribution network, BBC Studios delivered live feeds to its international rights holders, providing global BBC...

Vizrt has announced the release of Viz Mosart 5.1, the latest update to its broadcast studio automation solution, unlocking switcher-less workflows through the new Engine Switcher for Viz Mosart. Drawing on the power of Viz Engine, Engine Switcher unlocks the automated production of graphics-centric content and automated scene-based switching...