TV TECH

Half of March’s top stories represent topics that TVT is particularly well known for: NextGen TV and NAB. The future of television is still a popular subject and very few other outlets followed up on the report when it came out.

Readers have great interest in FCC matters right now. While that may not translate directly to product sales, it demonstrates how engaged TVT and RW readers are with industry regulation and that they are turning to us as an important source of information in uncertain times. Carr’s deregulatory initiative is huge news to our industry, especially in line with NAB’s push for updating ownership rules, which has been at the top of their DC to do list for decades and seems to have an advocate in Carr.

Industry Reacts To Future of Television Initiative Report

ESPN Men’s Tournament Challenge Sets New Record with 24.4 Million Brackets

FCC Chairman Carr Launches Massive Deregulation Initiative

ATSC To Showcase NextGen TV Progress at 2025 NAB Show

TVBE

The most popular article was on Ateliere’s plan to acquire Codemill. Elsewhere, our readers were interested in a news story about a new film studio planned for West London, and one on the development of a multimodal AI solution for broadcast graphics automation. I will be meeting the company behind it at NAB to find out more.

Ateliere Creative Technologies offers $29 million to acquire Codemill

Approval for new West London studios at landmark venue

First multimodal, agentic solution for broadcast graphics automation unveiled

Five years on: the impact of Covid on the broadcast industry

At least 10 takes per episode, and that drone shot: Netflix reveals secrets of Adolescence

RADIO WORLD

This month our readers were keenly engaged with coverage of the many surprising developments happening around federal regulation and policy, as the Trump administration moved to shut down US international broadcasting, review existing rules for possible deletion, and investigate stations and networks that it considered unfair or engaged in DEI practices.

“Rather Brash”: Jeff White on the USAGM Shutdowns

NAB: FCC’s 60 Minutes Investigation Is Unconstitutional

What’s Up With the “Delete Delete” Initiative

BEIT Session to Offer Insight into AM Viability

Other trends impacting broadcasters:

● FCC Chairman Carr’s continued efforts to promote the Trump agenda, including attacks on broadcaster bias and efforts to eradicate DEI.
● Broadcasters and exhibitors prepare for the 2025 NAB Show
● Sports continues to be enormously popular, with four out of the top 20 sports related, half of those were about March Madness.
● One story that did make the Top 20 was one I wrote and posted on March 31 about a proposal to the FCC that LPTV stations be allowed to move to an all datacasting model and drop actual TV programming. The fact that this made the top 20 list and was live for less than 24 hours illustrates how important this news was.