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Sinclair’s Ernie Ensign says while there are numerous long-term upshots to adopting cloud switching, the group is cautiously taking its time with multiple proofs-of-concept for at least another year. Meanwhile, at least one vendor is pursuing a dramatically different approach to cloud switching. Above, Vizrt’s NDI-native cloud switcher, Viz Vectar Plus, can deal with any kind of incoming IP stream and transcode it to NDI for live switching.

Broadcasters have already made significant progress in moving key parts of their operation to the cloud, including playout and archiving, and several large groups are eyeing live production as a logical next step. But top executives speaking at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 conference last week said that in general, they weren’t interested in simply moving the same […]

Vizrt, a provider of software-defined visual storytelling, has named Jon Raidel the company’s new global lead for its Live Production in the Cloud offering.

Raidel has nearly two decades as a technical director in sports broadcasting for the NFL Network and NBA