Vanishing Chat Provider Buys WorldNow for $45 Million

TV TECHNOLOGY NEWSBYTES   Trouble seeing this email?       Serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets     TODAY'S TOP STORIES - 07.30.15     Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because your reality is finally better than your dreams." ~ Theodor Seuss Geisel On this Day: In 1991, Luciano Pavarotti gave a free concert in London's Hyde Park.   Vanishing Chat Provider Buys WorldNow for $45 Million Frankly, maker of a disappearing chat app, is buying WorldNow, the online and mobile news content platform used by CBS, Fox, ABC and other major broadcast groups across the country, for $45 million in a stock and cash transaction. Assessing Storage Management ~ by Karl Paulsen In an ideal world, the storage manager or IT admin would like to find and optimize their system to operate as a single storage platform. History has shown that is just not feasible. NASCAR's Brickyard 400 Becomes NBCSN's Most-Watched Telecast All cylinders were firing in terms of viewers for NBC Sports Network's telecast of NASCAR Sprint Cup's Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 26, as the race became the network's most-watched telecast. Registration Now Open for Government Video Expo & National Drone Show NewBay Media has opened registration for the 2015 Government Video Expo and National Drone Show scheduled for Dec. 1-3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. more news »     NEWS & TECHNOLOGY     INT'L: Harmonic Electra X3 Used for Japan's First 4K Channel SIGNAL: Qligent Integrates Mulitchannel Visualization for Vision Platform OTT: Imagine Dragons Use Telestream Wirecast for Live Streaming PRODUCTION: Rushworks Adds Remo Lite Integrated PTZ Remote Production System IBC2015: Broadstream to Premiere New Time Delay Server at IBC   Industry Roundup     AT&T to 'Light Up' FM Chips in Android Phones (Radio World) FCC Suspends Comment Deadline on Reserving UHF Channel for Unlicensed Use, Wireless Mics (CommLawBlog) House Republicans: FCC Process, Policy Concerns Intensify (B&C) Stanford Students Teach Robots to Play Ping-pong, Land a Drone (IEEE Spectrum) Harmonic Q2 a Mixed Bag (Multichannel News)   TV Technology Resource Center White Papers     "Myth and Reality of Auto-Correction in File-based Workflows" from Interra Systems attempts to shed light on auto-QC tools. "Video Dropouts and the Challenges they Pose to Video Quality Assessment" from Interra Systems explores various kinds of video dropouts, the source of these errors, and the challenges encountered in detection of these errors. "High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage. "Using Cloud Playout to Simplify Your Disaster Recovery Plans" from Imagine Communications describes how using its Cloud Disaster Recovery system can provide private or public cloud-based disaster recovery for broadcast and video playout operations. "Controlling and Monitoring Studio Displays" from Orad describes the implementation of the Orad TD Control studio display in The Weather Channel's new Atlanta studio. TV Technology and Broadcast Engineering Publish IP Transition Study with Grass Valley The results indicated a strong current level of IP technology deployment and a trend toward increasing utilization.   News Expertise Opinions Equipment Show News Resources Subscribe   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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