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Distribution has always been carried as a fixed cost, a line item managed down rather than a platform that earns. Moving to IP changes that math. Uplinks, edge storage and dish permitting come off the balance sheet, and ad insertion moves into the cloud where localization becomes a revenue conversation instead of an engineering one.

A key provider of streaming, digital, data, graphics and officiating products and services for media, entertainment, and sports has announced a series of key senior leadership moves that it believes will enable it to extend its market leadership and impact in the Americas and Europe.

At IBC2026, Softron released the "M|8IP" — a bundle combines Macnica's 100GbE MEP100 SmartNIC with eight licenses of Softron MovieRecorder 5. This, they say, offers broadcasters and media professionals a ready-to-deploy platform for moving real-time video, audio and metadata between macOS applications and standards-based IP networks.

Delaware-headquartered AudioScience Inc. has expanded its partnership with MaxxKonnect, making the Josh Bohn-led entity the exclusive worldwide source for the AudioScience ASI2816 Streaming Radio Tuner, marketed by MaxxKonnect as the "RMT416."

It is designed to remove the infrastructure and networking complexity behind live media workflows, and it enjoyed its world premiere at the recent IBC2026 conference in Amsterdam. Introducing abbe, an AI-based broadcast engineer — courtesy of swXtch.io.

Wade Rathke said filings from 14 states were part of "a network of support"

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In a move the Baltimore-headquartered company says is emblematic of its increased news investment, Sinclair Inc. is immediately expanding its nationally distributed news program to time slots at a dozen TV stations where, until now, syndicated fare had been airing.

For NBA fans in Central Florida, the Magic Kingdom expands beyond Walt Disney World, thanks to such individuals as Jalen Suggs and Franz Wagner. Cox Media Group recognizes this, and thanks to its television partnership with the team is rebranding one of its two broadcast stations in the Orlando DMA in honor of the team.

The owner of a Class B AM serving the capital of the state of Washington and nearby cities west of Tacoma has agreed to acquire a Class A FM from a company that was forced to sell all of its assets per a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

 Rob Bonta shared that the agreement with the company led by CEO David Ellison "includes court enforceable guardrails to resolve the antitrust issues at the center of our case, protect competition and consumer choice, and provide for the production of significantly more films and a minimum of $1.5 billion in additional investment in domestic film production."