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TVU and the television truck that stayed home
TVU made the camera mobile. Its next problem is more stubborn: making the rest of live television move without taking an army of engineers along.
Geoff Stedman Makes the Invisible Machinery of Television Make Sense
For more than two decades, the SDVI chief marketing officer has translated servers, storage, and cloud workflows into a language executives can act on. His favorite word may be “builder.” His best material is what happens after the building begins.
INVIDI Put Digital Ad Logic Inside Television - Now It Has to Make Every Screen Behave
The Princeton ad-tech company made the old television set act a little more like the internet without turning the viewer into the product. Its next trick is harder: carrying that precision across streaming, live sports and hundreds of millions of boxes that are not even online.
The Internet Used to Break Live TV. LTN Built a Business Making Sure It Doesn’t.
Broadcasters spent decades trusting satellites because the public internet dropped packets at the worst possible moment. LTN’s wager was that a managed IP network could be cheaper, more flexible and just as dependable - and the shrinking supply of satellite spectrum is making that wager look timely.
Jacob Braunstein
Jacob Braunstein is the co-founder and CEO of LiveControl, a Santa Monica company that turns any venue into a professional live-video studio using PTZ robotic cameras run by a remote team of producers. He invented the remote-camera system at the core of the platform, which now produces thousands of streamed events each month for churches, schools, theaters, government bodies and memorial services. Braunstein was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and has raised roughly $33 million, including a $30 million Series A led by Coatue Management in 2021.
SDVI Corporation
SDVI Corporation builds Rally, a cloud-native media supply chain management platform that helps television networks, studios, and content distributors receive, process, package, and deliver media at scale. Founded in 2013 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the Emmy-winning company lets media operations teams orchestrate complex content workflows in the public cloud, replacing fixed, on-premise infrastructure with elastic, software-defined supply chains.
Dan Albritton
Dan Albritton is the CEO and co-founder of Megaphone TV, the company he calls the world's first Participation Entertainment Studio. Trained as a biomedical engineer at Columbia and as an interaction designer at NYU's ITP, he works in the seam between television production and game design - building the live polls, trivia, contests, and interactive on-air graphics that let viewers tap their phones and steer a broadcast in real time. Before Megaphone he co-founded iminlikewithyou, the studio that became OMGPOP and was later acquired by Zynga. Megaphone TV has earned an Emmy Award and multiple nominations, and its software appears in 24 of the top 25 US broadcast markets and on streamers worldwide.
Lawrence Kaplan
Lawrence 'Larry' Kaplan is the President and CEO of SDVI Corporation, the Emmy Award-winning cloud-native media supply chain platform company he co-founded in 2013. A broadcast industry veteran with over 40 years of experience, Kaplan previously founded Omneon Video Networks — the dominant provider of broadcast video servers — which was acquired by Harmonic Inc. for $307 million in 2010. Before that, he spent 18 years at Tektronix and led Sony's broadcast division. At SDVI, Kaplan has built the flagship Rally platform, which powers the media supply chains of Fox, Sky, Warner Bros. Discovery, A+E Networks, Comcast, and other leading media organizations worldwide.