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TV TechnologyVideoNOAA Taps Tomorrow.io for Improved U.S. Weather Forecasts Contract is part of agency’s effort to speed up the development of the Unified Forecast System through open science

TV TechnologyVideoElement Launches New TiVo-Powered Smart TVs in the U.S. 50- and 65-inch 4K models with the TiVo OS are now available

TV TechnologyVideoOperative Launches Unified Platform for Advertising and Broadcast Management Connected agentic ecosystem is designed to boost revenue growth for media companies

TV TechnologyVideoNew TVU Pocket Offers Broadcast Features In Phone-Sized Unit TVU Network’s new device leverages vivo imaging hardware and its own transmission and cloud tech

TV TechnologyVideoIdeastream Public Media, PBS Western Reserve Boards Vote To Merge The combined public media entity will serve 4 million people in Ohio and Pennsylvania

TV TechnologyVideoFCC’s Media Bureau Grants Paramount's Foreign Ownership Waiver Regulator approves 49.5% foreign ownership, including a 38.5% stake by Middle East investors, which exceeds the 25% limit on broadcast stations

TV TechnologyVideoSWAC TV Expands Distribution With Dedicated FAST Channel The channel is available on Prime Video, Plex, Xumo Play, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV and Dingo TV

TV TechnologyVideoUnited Taps Dish and Starlink for Live Professional and College Football Games The deal brings live broadcasts to Starlink-enabled seatback screens on the airline

TV TechnologyVideoLNK Group Moves Five National Networks to Grass Valley AMPP Lithuanian broadcaster deploys Playout X and Framelight X across five networks, combining on-premises software-defined playout with cloud-based disaster…

TV TechnologyVideoNAB Leadership Foundation Announces 2027 Broadcast Leadership Training Class For more than 25 years, BLT worked to prepare nearly 450 senior executives and managers for station ownership and C-suite roles

TV TechnologyVideoNew Roku Labs Brings Engineers’ Innovation Directly To Viewers The program gives viewers early access to experimental apps directly from the home screen

TV TechnologyVideoNationwide Emergency Alert System Test Set for November FEMA and the FCC will conduct the required test

TV TechnologyVideoStudy: 73% of Advertisers Plan to Make Live Sports Streaming Buys in Next Year Interest in making live sports streaming/CTV advertising investments during the next 6 to 12 months is even higher among ad agencies

TV TechnologyVideoFCC Media Bureau Seeks Public Comments on Political Ad Discounts Comments are due by Sept. 25 on a controversial and potentially costly measure to expand who is eligible for LUC or lowest unit charge for political ads

TV TechnologyVideoCBS Sacramento to Air UC Davis Football It will air five games in the greater Sacramento region

TV TechnologyVideoESPN Reports Record U.S. Open Men’s Championship Viewing Men’s championship averaged 3.2 million viewers while women’s championship averaged 2.7 million

TV TechnologyVideoNew Data on Who Is Cutting the Broadband Cord and Why Kagan’s Q1 2026 MediaCensus consumer survey finds that 16% of respondents do not subscribe to a traditional wired home broadband service

TV TechnologyVideoPrime Video Launches Five-Service Streaming Bundle in the U.S. The $29.99 a month streaming package includes AMC+, BritBox, MGM+, PBS Masterpiece, and Starz

TV TechnologyVideoCleveland Cavaliers Return to Free OTA on Gray Media Stations The 15-game regular season package simulcasts on WOIO, WUAB and Rock Entertainment Sports Network alongside Cavaliers on DAZN subscription platform

TV TechnologyVideoKEET Deploys PMM Cloud The Eureka public broadcaster has avoided large MC replacement costs by adopting the cloud

TV TechnologyVideoSinclair, Nexstar Launch Campaign to Raise Awareness of NextGen TV Effort includes on-air promos in an initial 13 markets, educational website

TV TechnologyVideoFour Themes That Defined the 2026 IBC Show Despite the AI hype, humans are still the most important link in media tech … for now

TV TechnologyVideoTVB Urges FCC to Overturn Expanded Eligibility for Political Ad Discounts On Sept. 4 the Supreme Court issued an emergency stay reinstating Media Bureau guidance that expanded the discounts to all authorized committees

TV TechnologyVideoPrime Video Introduces On-Demand News Clips Consumers can watch free, quick short-form national and local news clips within streamer’s dedicated news destination

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo