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March 21 Meeting: Verimatrix
Speaker: Petr Peterka, Chief Technology Officer at Verimatrix
Topic: Content distribution flow and federated rights management powered by blockchain.
When: Wednesday, March 21, 12 noon. Program after free lunch.
Where: iHeart Media, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego
Speaker Bio:
Petr has served as CTO of Verimatrix since 2010. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s overall revenue security strategy and anti-piracy efforts as well as its advanced technology research and intellectual property development. He has more than 25 years of experience in the multimedia industry, and has extensive familiarity with content protection techniques for IPTV, DVB and OTT streaming, as well as forensic watermarking technology.
Petr represents Verimatrix at DECE, AAPA, W3C, SCTE and he has actively participated in other standards organizations including ATSC, DVB, SMPTE, ATIS, TVA, CEA, DLNA, OMA, and others. Petr served as the vice-chair of ATSC T3-S17 group in the role of a Java system architect defining a TV applications platform before smartphones and smart TVs were even invented. He also regularly speaks at conferences including NAB, Digital Hollywood, Anti-piracy and Content Protection Summit, and Copyright and Technology and has been published in numerous industry publications.”
iHeartMedia Declares Chapter 11 Bankrupcy
iHeartMedia today announced an agreement with its creditors to enter into Chapter 11 reorganization. This long-anticipated move will greatly reduce or eliminate the controlling equity Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners had held since taking control of Clear Channel Communications in 2008.
In San Diego, iHeartMedia owns five FM and two AM stations. Local operations are not greatly affected except that some equipment vendors are not extending credit.
HC2 Buys KSKT-CD San Marcos
HC2 filed with the FCC this week to buy KSKT-CD, a 3 kW channel 36 LPTV facility on Mt. Woodson, for $4-million from NRJ. NRJ had recently bought the station to serve as a relay for KSCI Los Angeles to replace KUAN-LD, a decades-old translator that would have been displaced in the repacking auction.
HC2, formerly known as Primus Telecom or PTGI and based in Herndon, Virginia, late last year purchased the Spanish language Azteca America network, and already holds licenses, or has entered into purchase agreements, for over 100 LPTV stations nationwide.
FCC Visits Alleged Yuma FM Pirate
The Los Angeles office of the FCC alleges Eric V. Evans was operating a pirate FM station on 96.5 MHz on Hillside Place in Yuma, Arizona on January 30, 2018. They issued a Notice of Unlicensed Operation, a sort of cease and desist letter, last week. This notice did not detail any contact with Evans but mentioned simply that he was the listed owner of the residence.
The FCC issued a large number of these notices to alleged pirates in the past year, but the vast majority were in Florida and the area surrounding New York City.