HITS Exclusives

By Chris Tribbey One of the main keynotes attendees at the May 25 “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet” event in Los Angeles won’t involve someone from the media ... More

There’s a full slate of panels and keynotes on tap to keep Hollywood’s IT crowd fully engaged at the May 25 “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet” event in Los Ange... More

When Fred Kaplan takes the stage May 25 in Los Angeles at “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet,” he’ll argue that — for purposes of helping to provide security fro... More

By Chris Tribbey The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) asked its members attending the NAB Show to highlight what they offered at the annual confab. This is the fir... More

With more than 100,000 attendees, the annual NAB Show confab in recent years has been quietly making itself just as important as the Consumer Electronics Show, at least when it com... More

Cutting a check used to be a pretty simple task. But in today’s media and entertainment industry, there’s nothing simple about paying everyone involved in a production. Ent... More

By Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, Hollywood IT Society In unveiling a proposal for the complex and unwieldy state budget of California earlier this year, Governor Jerry Br... More

By Chris Tribbey Before the media and entertainment industry gathers the afternoon of March 22 in Los Angeles to tackle the state of screeners at the “Content Protection Briefin... More

When Evolution Digital first came on the scene, the Centennial, Colo.-based company’s goal was simple: provide solutions for small- and medium-sized cable operators, to help them... More

By Chris Tribbey ValueLabs — a privately owned technology services company out of Hyderabad, India — uses the word “boutique” to describe itself, but in the vein that it o... More

By Chris Tribbey From his time as network administrator at the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, to his years as director of research and development for Technicolor, to consul... More

By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA From M&E Journal Winter 2014-15 What is Smart Content and why should you care? This was the opening comment I posed to a recent asse... More