Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 767, Volume 15, #39 for April 24, 2024
Here are some things you might want to know about:
LOOKING BACK AT THE NAB SHOW 2024
According to the NAB, the stats were interesting. Approximately 61,000 attendees, with over half the attendees (54%)at this year’s Spring Show were there for their first time. Over one quarter came from overseas, representing 163 countries. Some 1300 exhibitors included over 200 showing off some form of AI tech and learning tools, which also were featured in over 150 sessions. If that were not enough, the whole show started with a Welcome Address featuring Ameca, an AI powered humanoid robot.
YES, IT WAS AI’S YEAR
Sure, programs, especially diagnostic ones, have been incorporating more and more AI in recent years. Nautel’s “Phone Home” was not the first, but an early example of how a transmitter can communicate to the factor about needed parts, even before the engineer knows what he has to do. With literally thousands of new products and new technologies, AI is starting to become a partner with the engineer in diagnosing, optimizing, translating, and repairing all sorts of gear and applications. A number of experts urged broadcasters to learn more about how to use AI.
VIDEO MEETS THE RADIO STARS
An interesting use of AI is incorporated in the Insoft Radio Studio, which uses AI to control video cameras to follow the action and permit a number of playback options that can enhance a radio program beyond anything you have seen as yet. The days of the static studio shot may be over.
Tomorrow (Thursday) Alex Bonello from Insoft will be our live presenter on the Virtual Lunch Gathering at 2 PM Eastern/ 11 AM Pacific to discuss why stations might benefit from cameras in the control room and elsewhere in the program chain. This is one your program/production people may well want to see. The link is available by request on www.theBDR.net/TLG/ We will aslo be on youtube live – if you are subscribed to thebdrnet channel, you will get a reminder when the program starts.
