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Rethinking Audio Capture in Broadcast: IP and Cloud-Enabled Workflows for Flexible Coverage

Clinton Hall — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:15:36 +0000

Broadcast audio is rapidly evolving from fixed, hardware-heavy infrastructures to flexible, IP- and cloud-enabled workflows. Today’s engineers are expected to cover more content, respond faster, and deliver greater precision — often with fewer resources, less space, and tighter budgets.

This session explores how networked audio, cloud-based management, digitally steerable coverage, and integrated DSP are being deployed across live entertainment, award shows, talk formats, and unscripted programming. By shifting key control, monitoring, and configuration tasks into the cloud, production teams can simplify system management while improving visibility and consistency across venues and shows.

In recent live broadcasts and capture sessions, digital microphone arrays formed the foundation of the audience capture strategy, delivering increased spatial detail while significantly reducing the total number of deployed microphones, cabling, and rack hardware. These same approaches translate directly to panel discussions and reality formats, where speed, flexibility, and repeatability are critical.

Gain practical insight from real-world productions into how IP- and cloud-enabled solutions reduce on-site equipment requirements, save rack space, lower transportation and logistics costs, and streamline system deployment and management — from initial setup through final delivery.

Speakers:
Ben Escobedo, Account Executive, Shure
Matt Forgey, Manager of Market Development, Shure

Location: VideoNext Theater

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Transmission System Troubleshooting

Clinton Hall — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:21 +0000

There’s nothing worse than being caught blind by a problem with your transmission system, especially if it takes you off air. In this session, Steve Wilde of American Amplifier Technologies will share insights designed to help you stay on top of the most critical part of your broadcast air chain, as well as introduce tools that used to be unobtainium, but are now available to keep you in front of transmission system problems.

Speaker: Stephen Wilde, Chief Executive Officer, American Amplifier Technologies

Location: Tech Chat Theater

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Unifying News Production: From Silos to Synergy, Unlocking Fast Unified Workflows, Transparent TCO, and Remote News Production w

Clinton Hall — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:06 +0000

The modern newsroom, both at the network and station group level, operates in a constant state of motion – where speed, collaboration, and efficiency define success. Yet many media companies still rely on fragmented, siloed content management systems across production, media, and digital assets, limiting their ability to successfully engage with their audience, collaborate remotely, and better capitalize on their content.

This session explores how a convergent media fabric, accelerated by cloud and AI, enables a fundamentally new approach to news production. Through the tight, API driven integration of VIA MAP and CUEZ, we demonstrate how media companies can transition from disconnected workflows to a unified environment where content, metadata, and teams operate fast and seamlessly together.

At the core of this transformation lie three key pillars. First, unified workflows: by consolidating ingest, AI-powered content discovery, editing, playout, and multi-platform distribution into a single environment, teams eliminate inefficiencies, reduce duplication, and accelerate engagement, leading to increased brand value. Second, transparent total cost of ownership (TCO): by leveraging flexible deployment models across on-prem, cloud, or hybrid infrastructures, organizations gain clear operational visibility and optimized resource usage, leading to predictable costs. Third, remote workflows: enabling journalists, editors, and producers to collaborate from anywhere and across station groups, accessing the same media and tools in real time without compromising performance or control, to create a truly coherent newsroom.

Through practical examples, including breaking news scenarios, we will illustrate how AI-driven metadata enrichment, real-time collaboration, and cloud scalability transform raw content into actionable, searchable assets, empowering faster storytelling, maximizing content impact, and enabling modern newsrooms to be first to reach their audience.

Join us to discover how combining VIA MAP and CUEZ creates a future-ready newsroom where operational efficiency meets editorial agility, enabling organizations to move faster, work smarter, and unlock measurable business value.

Speakers:

Michael Shore, SVP Customer Advisory Services, EVS
Jens De Maere, CEO, Cuez

Location: Tech Chat Theater

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Future-proof your newsroom with OpenMedia Evolve

Clinton Hall — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:04 +0000

Choosing your newsroom computer system (NRCS) is one of the most complex decisions facing broadcasters. News runs 24/7, reliability is non-negotiable, and even minor disruptions can impact output, operations, and audience trust.
In a landscape where speed in delivering content defines competitiveness, newsrooms must operate seamlessly across technology, workflows and people.

As one of Europe’s largest newsroom technology providers, at CGI we support broadcasters like the BBC to reach more than 400 million viewers each week. With decades of experience and expertise as a trusted digital partner, we can help you plan and deliver newsroom transformation at scale.

Join our presentation to discover OpenMedia Evolve, the next generation of our newsroom platform. Built to modernize on your terms, it unifies digital and linear workflows in a single intelligent platform. Combined with our strong partnership approach and hands-on support. OpenMedia Evolve provides the stability and security needed for faster, accurate and impactful content delivery.

During the session, you will learn how to:

Manage modernization without disrupting live operations
Balance innovation with stability and editorial continuity
Lead change across news and technical teams
Drive agile operations powered by AI and a story-centric focus

If you work in a newsroom, broadcast, or digital environment and want to drive real change, this session is for you.

Speaker: Florian Fraas, Business Development Lead, OpenMedia, CGI

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Scaling Broadcast Content Supply Chains with Cloud and AI

Clinton Hall — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:23:55 +0000

Learn how a cloud native media supply chain enables broadcasters to ingest, process, and distribute commercials, syndicated programming, and promos at national scale at lower cost than on premise systems. This session describes how hundreds of linear and non-linear channels, each with its own business case and technical standards, are supported from a single platform. It also covers deep operational monitoring and near real time business metrics, including cost and time to process each file, and how generative and agentic AI can be conditionally applied to produce reports, analyze content, and identify operational trends within a Broadcast as a Service (BaaS) model.

Speakers:

Ali Amoli, Principal Industry Specialist, Media and Entertainment, Amazon Web Services
Mike Palmer, AVP Media Management, Sinclair
Matt Wildes, Sr Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Location: AWS Theater

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The Evolving Paradigm of Broadcast News

Clinton Hall — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:06 +0000

As audience expectations, technology, and business models shift beneath the surface of traditional television, broadcast news finds itself in the midst of one of the most consequential transformations in its history. From local stations re-defining relevance to national brands adapting to digital first audiences, this conversation brings together experts with deep operational, editorial, and strategic insight into where broadcast journalism stands — and where it’s headed.

Discussion will explore:

How broadcast news organizations are balancing legacy linear reach with digital audience behaviors
The strategic impact of consolidation, local news scale, and regulatory change on content and distribution
The role of emerging technologies — from NextGen TV to integrated streaming platforms — in shaping news delivery
How trust, credibility, and evolving definitions of “newsworthiness” are influencing programming decisions
What business models and partnerships will sustain broadcast news in the decade ahead

With Perry Sook, Chairman & CEO of Nexstar Media Group, and Deborah Norville, veteran broadcast journalist and former long-time anchor of Inside Edition, this panel marries executive leadership and newsroom experience to unpack the future of broadcast news in a converging media ecosystem.

Speakers:

Deborah Norville, Veteran Broadcast Journalist, CBS Media Ventures
Perry Sook, Chairman and CEO, Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

Location: Media and Entertainment Theater

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The Cost of Bearing Witness: Journalist Safety in a Polarized America

Clinton Hall — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:05 +0000

As political polarization deepens and tensions in public spaces escalate, journalists increasingly face legal, physical, and professional risks simply for doing their jobs. Recent high-profile incidents involving reporters working in public settings have raised urgent questions about press freedom, law enforcement boundaries, and the safety of journalists on the ground.

This conversation moves beyond individual incidents to examine the broader implications for local and national journalism. How are reporters navigating public demonstrations, protests, and volatile civic moments? What protections exist — and where are they failing? How should newsrooms prepare journalists for these environments, and what responsibility do institutions have to defend press access and safety?

Featuring journalists who have experienced these pressures firsthand, alongside newsroom leadership, this session offers a grounded, thoughtful examination of what it now means to report in public — and what’s at stake for democracy when that work becomes increasingly precarious.

Moderator: John Berman, Achor/Correspondent , CNN

Speakers:

Mohamed Moawad, Managing Editor, Al Jazeera Channel
Eric Rasmussen, Investigative Reporter, KSTP
Mara Gassmann, Senior Staff Attorney, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Location: Media and Entertainment Theater

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The Traffic Collapse Is Real — Now What? Life After Facebook, X & Google Referrals

Clinton Hall — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:03 +0000

Social platforms are pulling back from news, search is changing fast, and referral traffic is more volatile than ever. This session looks at what’s actually working now: newsletters, podcasts, apps, direct subscriptions, SEO rethinks, and community-first strategies — and what publishers should stop chasing. This session examines both distribution strategies and the evolving policy environment that could shape the future of news discovery.

Moderator: Lachlan Cartwright, Founder, Breaker Media

Speakers:

Anna Dubenko, Director of Newsroom Audience, The New York Times
Will Payne, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The New York Post Media Group
Mohamed Moawad, Managing Editor, Al Jazeera Channel

Location: Media and Entertainment Theater

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