Hosted by Russell Trafford-Jones · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Russell Trafford-Jones hosts Broadcast Focus, a technology show with 32 episodes published.
Nathan Dane, the mastermind behind https://NathanMediaServices.co.uk, helps us discover the inner workings and historical significance of the BBC's iconic Ceefax service. Nathan shares his journey from piecing together t
Behind the Scenes of Teletext: Subtitles, Data Broadcasting, and More Former BBC engineer Peter Wietzel joins Russell Trafford-Jones in this episode of Broadcast Focus as they delve into the intricacies of Teletext cover
Peter Weizel spent many years in the BBC working on Teletext and even wrote part of the standards so who better to continue guiding us on our journey into the first digital broadcasting on TV. Teletext is a pioneering pr
Rise Mentor and Fractional CMO Georgiana Verdonk explains all aspects of mentoring, showing it's great for all stages of your career! We look at why it makes sense, why companies should offer it, and how to get your own
Peter Weizel spent many years in the BBC working on Teletext and even wrote part of the standards so we go on a journey into the first digital broadcasting on TV. Teletext is a pioneering pre-internet information distrib
Carrie Wootten explains the Global Media & Entertainment Manifesto. She delves in to what it is and how businesses and individuals can help. Revolving around reducing the skills shortage and increasing diversity, this mu
Andy Rayner updates us on what's new in this new specification helping move video and media into and around the cloud. This is a break away from the traditional model where all video is sent one frame after another, so t
Lee Hunt, Director at InSync Technology, talks about how he got into broadcast and how he was able to keep pushing his skills forward to match the new technologies that just kept on arriving! Now Director at InSync, a co
For years Zambia, post independence had only three radio stations all run by the state. This changed when Phil Haggar came on the scene in the 80s. Backed by a philanthropic businessman, Phil worked to train people from
Romain Bouqueau (founder and CEO of MotionSpell) and Allan McLennan (CEO of PADEM Media Group) talk about the business case for GPAC and how it has found a home in Meta and Netflix. We take a look at Motion Spell's new w
Publisher of The Flint, Neil Howman talks about how The Flint came about, how companies within the media sector are dealing with becoming more sustainable, creating sustainable SaaS platforms and there's a nod to an upco
Co-Directory of Radio TechCon, Aradhna Tayal Leach explains what makes Radio TechCon special. We look at some previous years' talks and find out what this year has to offer! Tickets: https://radiotechcon.com
Editorial Director of The Flint, and formerly with Albert, Neal Romanek talks about Albert and DIMPACT discussing how they work and ultimately discussing the how as a global industry we can have a joined up approach to a
Lisa Collins, co-founder of the MTSS (Media Tech Sustainability Series) joins me to look at some of the surprising - and not so surprising - numbers from Sony's report on sustainability. Report: https://pro.sony/ue_US/ev
With decades of experience volunteering his technical know-how in Community Radio in the Netherlands, Valentijn Siebrands explains how publicly-funded and commercial community radio works in NL. We compare it to the UK a
I dive deep with Romain Bouqueau, founder and CEO of MotionSpell and a pioneer in open-source streaming technology to find out about the power of GPAC, the secret sauce behind Netflix’s lightning-fast video delivery. We
It was great to have Andy Rayner, Director, Video Services Forum (VSF), with me to discuss why we need Ground-Cloud-Cloud-Ground (GCCG), what it is and its uses. As media companies move exlusively to software, we talk ab
Wren Wood and is father run MobilePhoneMuseum.com – We have a great chat about the technologies behind mobile telephony as well how the shapes of mobile phones have changed.
There are no small plans when it comes to Univision. Finding musical acts from around Universities in the UK and bringing them together for a Eurovision-style show is a large ask, but exactly what the students at the Uni
For 14 years Manoto TV broadcast from London internationally – including into Iran. Graham Collins was intimately involved with designing and implementing much of the technology there tells us about his time with the cha
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