This session is pitched to the ambitious engineer or technician in today’s broadcast and media production environment aiming at a management role or knowledge acquisition in practical and beneficial topics. Gone are the days of sizable tech or engineering staff in most facilities. Today’s techs carry broad and crisp general expertise and are typically not masters or experts in any one field. Rather than focusing strictly on media IP tech, this year we present topics related to real-world challenges in maintaining and building media facilities: More hands on and practical training with an intensive bent to latest technical trends and technologies and their inherent efficiency gains.

Topics today:

• Dynamic Media Facilities
• Media Format Convergence
• Loudness and Dialog Intelligibility
• HD Radio Update
• Telecom Circuits and Links for Broadcast and Media Facilities
• AI Trends in Programmatic Ad Insertion
• Astonishing Growth of NDI in Media
• The Various Flavors of HDR
• Myriad Uses of AI in media
• Time and PTP Wait for No One: Hybrid Facilities Top Challenges