TSL Professional Products launched the TallyMan VP (Virtual Panel) with touchscreen at the 2012 NAB Show.

Designed to simplify control of multiple router I/Os, the intuitive user interface is engineered to be more in tune with the needs of creative operators, thereby streamlining production workflow. more

GlobeCast Americas has announced the appointment of Edward “Eddie” Ferraro as the company’s new North American head of sales.

In his new position, Ferraro will be responsible for overseeing all permanent and contribution sales activities for GlobeCast across North America. more

Actus Digital has announced a technology partnership with German-based NEWBASE to produce an end-to-end, integrated media monitoring, clipping and analysis workflow.

The combined solution features NEWBASE Press Production technology, which is used to find and evaluate news and ads from print, e-paper and Internet-media, and Actus’ Web-based media monitoring and management platform. The integration offers broadcasters an end-to-end media monitoring solution with advanced integration. more

Damon Stewart has joined Broadcast Pix as the company’s western region sales manager.

Stewart has spent more than 15 years working in the professional video industry, including 10 years at Apple in several management positions. For three years, he managed Apple’s pro video and film value-added reseller channel for the western United States. Most recently, he worked at Advanced Digital Video in Roseville, CA, where he provided video production consulting to several California state agencies. Stewart will be based in Roseville, CA.

The TV industry had reason to cheer in 2011, with ad spending climbing 4.5 percent for the year, according to the latest figures from The Nielsen Company.

The final installment of Nielsen’s “Advertising & Audiences Report” for 2011, reported that TV took the lion’s share of ad dollars. more

The management committee of the Future of Broadcast Television (FoBTV) Initiative, formed in Las Vegas during the 2012 NAB Show, April 25 announced its leadership team.

Mark Richer has been elected FoBTV chairman. Richer is president of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, one of the 13 global technology and standards organizations that founded the FoBTV Initiative. Phil Laven, chairman of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project, was named FoBTV vice chairman. more

The NAB expressed disappointment with the FCC’s decision April 27 to require broadcasters to place their political file online.

“NAB respectfully disagrees with today’s FCC decision, and we’re disappointed that the commission rejected compromise proposals proffered by broadcasters that would have brought greater transparency to political ad buying,” NAB Executive VP of Communications Dennis Wharton said in a statement on the association’s website. more

Haivision introduced its KulaByte 4.0 software for efficient high-quality cloud transcoding at the 2012 NAB Show.

KulaByte is a software-based live H.264 video transcoder that delivers high-quality RTMP Dynamic Streaming for Flash video and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for iOS devices. Now available for both Linux and Windows, KulaByte 4.0 delivers significant gains in transcoding performance. more

Fast Forward Video (FFV) unveiled the sideKick HD, a multi-format, straight-to-edit, camera-mountable digital video recorder (DVR) at the 2012 NAB Show.

Designed to ease production workflows and satisfy the demands of both producers and post-production editors, the sideKick HD enables users to get the most out of their camcorders without compromising on quality.

The new sideKick HD offers high-quality image recording in a camera-mountable form factor. more

BBC R&D and Xilinx demonstrated Stagebox, a prototype camera-back device, at the 2012 NAB Show that enables the transport of professional quality video over Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks.

The BBC R&D Stagebox can be attached to the back of any broadcast-quality camera. Due to the integration of more system functionality onto a Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA), expensive and cumbersome SDI/audio/talkback and ancillary cabling can be replaced with a single network cable (fiber or Cat6). The small form factor device expands the reach of video networks to remote production sites and studios using IP networks. more