Broadcast Focus

Grégoire Polad from ACT joins me to explain what we can do to support the media industries as the EU positions itself to ban broadasters and streaming media companies from using geoblocking when streaming copyrighted media. What will this do to business models and will it actually be a net negative for consumers? Review the evidence and contact your MEP if you feel strongly about this ahead of a v...

Aaron Nuytemans tells us how we can have an impact on the future of broadcast as part of explains the legacy of the Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production project. Aaron outlines how the project, which included such names as Tinkerlist, ITN and YLE amongst others was able to create news shows totally independent of the gallery allowing you to switch between on-prem galleries and cloud galleries si...

Muki takes us through her sessions at MPTS (The 2024 Media Production and Technology Show) covering #AI #GenAI, #StateOfTheNation, #NewsProduction, #EmergingTechnologies, #Media #supplychain and – of course – the IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme! Muki's sessions: https://www.mediaproductionshow.com/programme?&sortby=publishedDate%20asc&searchTerm=Muki&searchgroup=34B50930-20...

From 0 to a career in 3 years? That's the task of undergrads so who better to advise us on getting going in the industry than 3rd year Solent University student, Sophie Humphrey. Sophie shares her take on how students are able to get started freelancing whilst still at uni and transition into the industry.

Paul Markham talks about how we've gone from Marconi's first radio experiments to TV at scale based on software workflows. Now we've built our industry on the shoulders of giants (like IT), Paul tells us about the london-based meetup Cloud Native Media. Find out more at http://cnm.live Subscribe to the Cloud Native Media YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cloudnativemedia

Gerard Phillips from Arista joins me to talk about how he got into broadcast and how technology has moved on in the intervening time. Touching on defence projects, his time at Snell + Wilcox grappling with FPGAs and ASICs to uncompressed video, Gerard's journey helps us understand the reason software-defined products are so important and gives us an insight to recruitment today.

For the first time, our industry has a comprehensive report on the state of diversity, equity and inclusion. Polly and I discuss both the good and the bad news from the report. If you want to read it yourself, you can get it from Rise: https://risewib.com/survey/