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What is Blockchain?

Blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies, can
be defined as a digital, immutable and decentralized
ledger that chronologically records transactions in near real-time.

Consolidation & Alliances: An Outlook

As we recently argued in our NAB 2019 Special Report, the rise of online streaming has induced traditional media companies to seek for scale to compete with the deep pockets and global reach of their new rivals.

Global economic growth is stabilizing at a subdued level due to high uncertainty stemming from trade tensions between the US and China. After strong growth peaking at close to 4% in 2017 and at 3.8% in early 2018, global economic activity slowed notably to 3.2% in the second half of 2018, reflecting a confluence of factors affecting major economies.

At NAB, Rohde & Schwarz announced its first fully virtualized broadcast product – PRISMON.cloud. In this article, Dr. Alexander Hackmann, Senior Business Development Manager at Rohde & Schwarz, explains the strategic importance of this product to a company that has 70 years’ heritage as a hardware-based broadcast solution provider. Furthermore, he explains how a long-term Rohde & Schwarz customer, MX1, played a central role in the product’s development.

With Industry 4.0 in full swing, changing market dynamics driven by the digital revolution are fundamentally rewriting the business operations for broadcast and media organisations, affecting their technology choices and working practices forever.

Within the broadcast and media industries, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace: they happen for various reasons and are driven by a range of factors. Last month saw Telestream acquire Tektronix Video in a very specific combination: it brings together two like-minded companies and seeks to build on their strong bases. In this article, Telestream’s CEO, Scott Puopolo, explains what this integration means to the new expanded company and its customers.

We caught up with Codemill co-founder and CEO, Rickard Lönneborg and Johan Bergström, Sales, to find out what drives this dynamic, young Swedish company that recently joined the IABM family as a Silver member.

Back in the day broadcasting was very different – or was it?Certainly fewer channels, initially no color and of course no Internet streaming. With only a handful of channels, it was the broadcasters who decided what we watched and with only one screen in the house, television was a communal family affair. Much of that early television and radio experience was enabled by a Cambridge based technology company called Pye and the television division named Pye TVT.

The end-user panel session was undoubtedly the highlight of the IABM Voice of the Customer event, held on the Sunday prior to the opening of NAB Show 2019, producing some great insights for technology vendors. You can view the full video of the session on the IABM website; what follows is a summary of the key points. The panellists were:

North America: NAB-in-Review

From my perspective, NAB continues to reflect the major transformations taking place in the broadcast, media and entertainment industry. Over 200 companies on the NAB site had ‘1st Time’ flags displayed by their names, newly joining the NAB exhibitor ranks along with the well-established industry providers.

ConnecTechAsia 2019 is upon us

ConnecTechAsia in Singapore this June is the rebranding and umbrella name for BroadcastAsia and CommunicAsia. The organizers have added NXTAsia, which includes the latest of technologies as per the organizers’ explanation “…comprehensive array of disruptive technologies and emerging solutions”.

Earlier in the year, the EMEA Members’ Council reached its second anniversary, and as members serve for a term of two years, we held elections to choose the members of the Council for the next two years. So positive was the response in terms of candidates and member companies wanting to get involved there was enough interest and momentum to launch a Members’ Council specifically for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) in addition to the EMEA Members’ Council

IABM further expands its regional representation initiative

We have just announced the line-up for the newly formed DACH Members’ Council. The formation of the new Council was driven by the result of the recent EMEA Members’ Council elections. So positive was the response in terms of the number of candidates and companies wanting to get involved, it was clear that an additional Members’ Council specifically for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) would be welcomed.

MENA Region Update from Hassan Ghoul Director of MEA, IABM

We spoke to IABM members Marquis Broadcast and Limecraft to discover what the state of play is in the Produce segment of the BaM Content Chain® and what we can expect to see over the coming months and years.

In a world currently dominated by discussions around the transition from point-to-point connections of video and audio to network connections over IP, we may have overlooked that this is not the end game but rather a stepping stone to something bigger.

• Georg Lenzen, VP of Product, Make.TV
• Martin Monzel, Key Account Manager, Make.TV

Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud, which won ‘NAB Show 2019 Product of the Year’, enables newsrooms to remain at the forefront of breaking news. In this session you will learn about why leading news broadcasters like Al Jazeera are building newsrooms in the cloud. They will explore how smart newsrooms allow for cost efficient and timely development of hyper-local news acquisition, enabling citizen journalists to enhance the network’s live or near-live coverage of local happenings, enriching broadcasts and providing a wider range of angles and perspectives at the scene.

Steven Soenens, VP Product Marketing, Skyline Communications

In this session, the challenges of running linear workflows on containers are explained, as well as the impact on the workflows. The session uses illustrations of Kubernetes based media functions.