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TV TechnologyVideoFCC Releases More Details on Nationwide EAS Test WASHINGTON —The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has issued a public notice reminding broadcasters and others that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a nationwide…

TV TechnologyVideoNEP Americas Adds IP-Based Flypack Kits to Production Lineup PITTSBURGH —NEP Americas, part of NEP Group, has expanded its end-to-end solutions for media companies with new scalable, IP-based flypack production kits deployed from the U.S.

TV TechnologyVideoVITEC to Retire Datapath Brand VITEC will retire the Datapath corporate brand next year, bringing its product portfolio under the VITEC brand.

TV TechnologyVideoGravity Media’s OB Rethink Delivers for Gravel Cycling Championship SYDNEY —When the remote location of a world championship cycling meet challenged the traditional outside broadcast model, Gravity Media developed a custom solution to facilitate Beyond Productions’…

TV TechnologyVideoLG Ad Solutions Names Abhijit Pol SVP, Product and Engineering MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. —Abhijit Pol has joined connected TV firm LG Ad Solutions as senior vice president of product engineering.

TV TechnologyVideoJoseph Hopkins Joins Telestream as Chief Revenue Officer NEVADA CITY, Calif. —Joseph Hopkins has joined media workflow and measurement technologies provider Telestream as chief revenue officer.

TV TechnologyVideoNBC News Wins Midterm Elections Ratings Race In the battle for news supremacy covering the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections, NBC News was the clear winner, with 6.8 million viewers during its primetime broadcasts, according to Nielsen.

TV TechnologyVideoGatesAir Adds New Capabilities to AirWatch365 Managed Service CINCINNATI— GatesAir has added a series of new monitoring, reporting and network architecture enhancements to its AirWatch365 managed service shaped by real-world experience across an expanding U.S.

TV TechnologyVideoNomono Brings Speech-Enhancement Pipeline to Broadcasters Norwegian audio technology company Nomono has introduced an alpha API and MCP server that opens the audio enhancement pipeline behind its Nomono Studio to broadcasters, production companies, and…

TV TechnologyVideoRoku Introduces Roku Outcomes to Optimize Ad Delivery SAN JOSE, Calif. — Roku has unveiled Roku Outcomes, a machine learning-powered tool that enables marketers to target ads toward specific consumer actions, bringing the discipline they use for search…

TV TechnologyVideoRTÉ Combines Calrec Type R, ST 2110 for World Cup Commentary RTÉ, Ireland’s national public-service broadcaster, rethought how it would approach mixing commentary for the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament, June 11–July 19, choosing to combine Calrec’s Type R…

TV TechnologyVideoHearing Scheduled for FCC Commissioner Thumann Severs' Nomination The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee announced on Tuesday that it will hold a hearing on the nomination of Republican Danielle Thumann Severs to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, Nov.

TV TechnologyVideoMaxxKonnect Acquires FCCInfo.com The MaxxKonnect Group has acquired FCCInfo.com , a popular industry data resource, from Cavell, Mertz & Associates. A sample search screen in FCCInfo.com.

TV TechnologyVideoNetflix Deploys Beta ‘AI Discover’ Feature Netflix has announced “AI Discover,” a new tab on the streamer’s TV app which is currently being deployed in beta mode to select viewers.

TV TechnologyVideoGov. Newsom Proposes Expanding Film and TV Tax Credit to $1B California Governor Gavin Newsom this week proposed expanding the state’s current Film and Television Tax Credit Program from $750 million to at least $1 billion, and making it the nation’s largest…

TV TechnologyVideoCanon Brings PTZ and Multicamera Setup, Control and Management into a Single Platform Canon has introduced Camera Control Centre, a new free software application that brings setup, control and management together in a single platform for PTZ and multi-camera productions.

TV TechnologyVideoRethink: SRT Is ‘De Facto’ Standard Among Open Internet Transport Protocols When it comes to the current market for streaming standards, SRT remains king, according to a new report from Rethink TV.

TV TechnologyVideoCheddar Turns to Playbox Neo for Playout WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —Around-the-clock news outlet Cheddar has moved to the cloud with the assistance of Playbox Neo .

TV TechnologyVideoGravity Media SMARThead Makes Its NYC Marathon Debut NEW YORK — Gravity Media ’s SMARThead robotic camera technology made its New York City Marathon debut Nov. 1.

TV TechnologyVideoLPTV Advocates Continue to Push for Voluntary 1.0 Shutdown Low-power TV broadcasters told the Federal Communications Commission that while they support a transition from ATSC 1.0 to 3.0, they don’t support Sinclair’s push for a coordinated, nationwide…

TV TechnologyVideoJaime Eskridge Named GM of Gray’s WLFI in Lafayette, Ind. ATLANTA — Gray Media has named Jamie Eskridge as general manager of WLFI, the station group’s CBS affiliate in Lafayette, Ind.

TV TechnologyVideoSinclair Taps Jennifer Lopez to Lead Boise, Idaho, Stations BOISE, Idaho — Sinclair has elevated Jennifer Lopez as vice president and general manager of KBOI, KYUU and KNIN here.

TV TechnologyVideoATSC 3.0 Through the Market-Driven Innovation Cycle Executive Summary ATSC 3.0 represents a monumental leap in terrestrial broadcasting capabilities, establishing a flexible, IP-based foundation for next-generation media and data services.

TV TechnologyVideoAWARN: Request to Shut Off ATSC 3.0 Protection Is ‘Inappropriate’ WASHINGTON —The Advanced Warning and Response Network Alliance has told the FCC that Silicondust’s suggestion to disable ATSC 3.0 content security before and during the Nov.

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo