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Executives from Sinclair, Fox Television Stations, NBCUniversal Local, Bitcentral and Imagine Communications will discuss the sticky process of determining what stays on-premises and what functions should best move to the cloud in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar on Aug. 10. Register here.
By TVNewsCheck Staff | July 5, 2023
On the long road to fully cloud-based news production, broadcast technologists continue to wrangle over what should stay on-premises versus migrating to the cloud. Tech leaders from Sinclair, Fox Television Stations, NBCUniversal Local, Bitcentral and Imagine Communications will share their own criteria and how those moves have played out in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar, “Hybrid Cloud Strategies,” on Aug. 10 at 1 p.m. ET.
The discussion will examine station groups’ progress in moving live news to the cloud along with the differences in cloud adoption between networks and local stations. It will also consider how to leverage the cloud for both network and local station operations.
“Given the current state of technology, the key question is what makes sense to keep on prem and what broadcast functions make sense to move to public or private cloud,” said TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp. “This panel will confront those questions directly drawing from their immediate experience.”
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Sam Peterson, Chief Operating Officer, Bitcentral — As chief operating officer, Peterson has direct control of the organization’s operations in accordance with Bitcentral’s strategic objectives and business plans. Peterson is a career broadcast professional with more than 32 years of experience including over 20 years in various leadership roles at large, industry-leading corporations.
He has held positions spanning product management, marketing, direct sales and sales engineering. His broad experience spans all aspects of media production and distribution including automation, master control and playout, news gathering and production, post-production, signal management and live production. He has successfully overseen the integration of several products from international acquisitions into the North American market.
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