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Broadcast Media: The Inside Track

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Artificial Intelligence
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Broadcasting
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Content Authenticity Initiative
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🎙️ Reinventing Broadcast: AI, Content, and the Future of Media The media industry is evolving fast - AI, automation, and digital transformation are reshaping broadcasting and content creation. Join Ben, a broadcast consultant & AI strategist, as he explores: ✅ AI’s impact on media & content ✅ Expert insights & consulting case studies ✅ Practical strategies for staying ahead With a mix of AI-drive... more

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📺 WHAT IS BROADCAST NOW?

Ask a media studies class fifty years ago and you got a tidy list: five mass media — print, outdoor, cinema, radio and television. Broadcast was the last two. One signal, one tower, everyone watching the same thing at the s... more

🤖 In 2018 the industry laughed at Xinhua's stiff digital newsreader - creepy, gimmicky, never going to happen. Eight years on, nobody is laughing. India Today's award-winning AI anchor Sana delivers bulletins several times a day in multiple language... more

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🎙️ Image, text, and now audio have all crossed the line into the genuinely indistinguishable. So the question stops being "can I spot the fake?" and becomes "can I prove where this came from?"

Ben and Raiana get into content provenance — the quiet... more

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🎙️ Everyone's talking about AI agents. Almost nobody's talking about the quiet standard that actually lets them do anything. This episode is about that standard — the Model Context Protocol — and why it matters for broadcast.

🔌 In this episode:

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🎙️ A special field edition of Broadcast Media: The Inside Track, recorded live on the show floor at MPTS 2026, The Media Production and Technology Show at Olympia London.

🔍 Two days. One diagnostic question. Who in broadcast is actually developing... more

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🎙️ Episode preview: Ben heads to MPTS 2026 at Olympia London with a single diagnostic question that cuts through three years of vendor noise and AI fatigue.

🔍 The question? Who in broadcast is actually developing bespoke models. Not buying tools. ... more

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🎙️ Special Personal Episode | Broadcast Media: The Inside Track

Four months into twenty twenty-six. One vision board. Two prophecies that held. A handful of people quietly holding the year up underneath the water.

This is the inside-the-inside-tra... more

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🚀 What does it really take to build and launch a brand new Smart TV product on a brand new national streaming platform — from the very first planning workshop to the moment millions of viewers hit play for the first time?

In this bonus deep-dive ep... more

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Recent Guests

Vinay Gupta
Broadcast industry professional
Episode: MPTS 2026 Field Recordings with Vinay Gupta and Shelly Chambers
Shelly Chambers
Media professional focusing on creator content and AI in media
Episode: MPTS 2026 Field Recordings with Vinay Gupta and Shelly Chambers
Padraig O'Donovan
Founder/CEO of Layercake, broadcast technology expert
Layercake
Episode: AI, Cloud & the Future of Broadcast | Padraig O’Donovan (Layercake)
Teju Mulagada
Technical program manager, growth strategist, and entrepreneur focused on AI-driven innovations in Broadcast Media
Episode: 🎙️ BONUS EPISODE: Multi-Agent AI Transforming Live Broadcast
Michael (Berkeley cohort member)
Berkeley course cohort member and founder
Berkeley cohort / DevStream Labs
Episode: From UC Berkeley to DevStream Labs: Building AI-Powered Products
Bruce (Berkeley cohort member)
Berkeley course lecturer and founder
Berkeley course lecturer; DevStream Labs
Episode: From UC Berkeley to DevStream Labs: Building AI-Powered Products
Rayuse (Berkeley cohort member)
Berkeley cohort member and founder
Berkeley cohort; DevStream Labs
Episode: From UC Berkeley to DevStream Labs: Building AI-Powered Products
Brent (DevStream Labs founder)
Co-founder of DevStream Labs
DevStream Labs
Episode: From UC Berkeley to DevStream Labs: Building AI-Powered Products
Molly (DevStream Labs team)
Team member at DevStream Labs
DevStream Labs
Episode: From UC Berkeley to DevStream Labs: Building AI-Powered Products

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Ben Anchor
Host of Reinventing Broadcast, AI strategist focused on media workflows

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 4 ratings
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    Nice to hear some real people who are working in media, without the hype. Will be recommending.

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Building the Software-Defined Broadcast Facility - with the DMF concept
Q: How do you define 100% software media facility in practice?
It's not about eliminating hardware entirely but about reducing reliance on dedicated hardware and treating processing as software running on commodity servers or in the cloud, with memory-sharing and standardized interfaces enabling flexible, scalable workflows across environments.
Building the Software-Defined Broadcast Facility - with the DMF concept
Q: What are the key technical barriers to DMF adoption?
Interoperability, orchestration, and timing are the main challenges. It's not just about having software; it's about having a consistent platform and mechanism to press go across different vendors, ensuring each piece of software performs its role at the right time within a complex live workflow.
AI and Accessibility: Paul Markham on 25 Years of Broadcast Innovation
Q: So where do we think we're headed in terms of AI and proprietary and open source? Who's going to win out? Which way is it going?
The trend is toward interoperability and open standards that let different tools talk to each other. Open source interoperability is key to plugging AI into workflows without getting locked into a single vendor, enabling broader adoption and faster innovation.
AI and Accessibility: Paul Markham on 25 Years of Broadcast Innovation
Q: And like, when we was there, cloud was the big thing. But now, like, AI is the big thing. And like, sort of speech to text. What's, you know, what's happening in that world right now, Paul?
Speech to text started as a niche capability but has rapidly become foundational in media, with real-time accuracy improving dramatically. While it's not perfect on every content type, for most live and non-live material, AI-assisted subtitling has become practical, and the focus has shifted to integrating these tools into real workflows and addressing content where precision matters most.
🎯 From IBC Networking to Production AI: Amira Labs Special
Q: Kyle, what's your favorite use case at the moment?
The favorite use case centers on broader content understanding, starting with subtitles and captioning and expanding into language identification, translation, and integrating computer vision to build rich metadata for discovery and decisioning.

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The show centers on practical, real-world AI, data, and workflow transformations in broadcasting and media. Episodes explore how AI tools, cloud-native production, and orchestration frameworks are reshaping scheduling, content creation, metadata management, and newsroom operations, with deep dives into provenance, governance, and change management. Guests range from Layercake and UC Berkeley cohorts to industry practitioners, offering hands-on perspectives on building modern, scalable media pipelines while balancing human judgment and technology. Notable threads include governance and safety in AI adoption, the shift from automation to orchestration, and the ongoing move toward bespoke, data-driven approaches in large broadcast ecosystems. ... more

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1. Vinay Gupta
2. Shelly Chambers
3. Padraig O'Donovan
4. Teju Mulagada
5. Michael (Berkeley cohort member)
6. Bruce (Berkeley cohort member)
7. Rayuse (Berkeley cohort member)
8. Brent (DevStream Labs founder)

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