Broadcast/Cable

Explore the evolving broadcast industry with insights from Taylor Riese, Signiant VP of Strategic Sales. Discover how broadcasters are adapting to shifting revenue streams, global content production, and the rise of efficiency-focused solutions in 2024

“It truly simplifies a lot of our day-to-day work. It has streamlined every transfer and everything compared to FTP.”

“We’ve worked together in ways that we didn’t deem possible. We’ve known the tech can do this all along, but it’s never been tested at scale in the way that it has. That gives us such a positive platform to build on. I’d be really sad if we didn’t continue to grow those areas.”

“There’s a real fundamental life-change for people, which will be part of the workplace as well, which will mean everybody doing things completely differently. There are some quite profound changes that are coming about because of this. Not all of them are bad. They’re just different, and they’ll change our lives.”

National public broadcaster, RTV Slovenia, upgrades its Olympics workflow with Signiant.

As production teams look to do more with fewer people on site, traditional file transfer methods present significant challenges causing broadcasters to find alternatives.

“5G removes all the limitations we had with the things you have to plug in. Less gear and no limitation on where you can be,” Sahara says. “As long as you’re somewhere in the network, somewhere you can get a signal, you can do what you need to do. And that’s the freedom that 5G will enable.”

The industry is certain to go through even more dynamic transformations once live production resumes in full, but until then, the journey that live sports has embarked on and the creativity and tenacity the industry has demonstrated continues to captivate.

8K has a lot to offer, and 2020 will likely add uses to the conversation. As it stands, 8K’s efficacy is heavily intertwined with the nature of individual projects and the requirements of the deliverables in question, and understanding the key strengths and current limitations of the format will be essential to its efficient and cost-effective implementation.

Live production is one of the best examples of how dynamic M&E can be. Live events are unpredictable and fluid, and with that thrill come unique challenges.

For decades, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has been used in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry to move files between servers and for distributing them around the world. And for just as long, cybersecurity experts have been warning of its potential threat to network security, intellectual property and privacy. Nevertheless, FTP has persisted.

Media coverage for a major sports event, from the live action to archives, requires layers of technology and talent at every stage. Signiant’s secure, accelerated file transfer solutions come into play as soon as recording begins and are used throughout the life of media files.