Streaming Media

In this interview, New York Public Radio (NYPR) president and CEO Christy Tanner discusses her long and varied career in media, from her early days in the pre-digital era working for the Associated Press (AP) to the ways that she worked to optimize growth and influence at streaming organizations such as CBS Interactive and to raise the profile of women's sports at Swerve TV.

If technology removes repetitive work, reduces travel, or allows teams to do more with the same resources, that's progress. But efficiency and innovation aren't always the same thing. The question that really interests me is: as sports streamers, what can we now do that we couldn't do before?

The companies covered here have substantially leveraged AI or incorporated it into their currently shipping tech. The representatives I spoke to discuss some very interesting approaches for what essentially is image interpretation, including detecting if content has been tampered with using AI, local AI processing, and automated clip generation such as vertical formatting.

Even as technology trade shows like IBC, which opens at RAI Amsterdam just as this issue goes to press, atomize those experiences by industry rather than packaging them for popular consumption, they promise "see the world of tomorrow" excitement without the nationalistic and imperialistic baggage associated with it at many of the world's fairs of the 19th and 20th century.

While total cost of ownership spans an encyclopedic number of operational touchpoints, managing a video P&L ultimately comes down to making targeted, high-impact architectural choices.