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Denver – September 07, 2026 -- Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has unveiled a suite of end-to-end AI-powered workflow applications for broadcasters, content owners, and operators, building on its VideoAITM platform ahead of the 2026 IBC Show.

CTS bundles six AI applications into a single production-ready package

The new toolkit includes video verticalization, regional-language localization, smart chapters, metadata enrichment, automated quality control, and intelligent clipping. Video verticalization uses AI-driven smart cropping to convert landscape content into portrait format for social media, automatically identifying the "action center" of each scene. The localization application automates dubbing with AI-generated voices, extracting audio, translating dialogue, and generating captions without human voice talent.

Miami – September 03, 2026 -- The Society of Professional Journalists' Florida Pro Chapter awarded $15,000 in cash prizes for investigative reporting at the 2026 Sunshine State Awards, the state's largest and longest-running journalism competition, honoring work published in 2025. The ceremony took place at ArtServe Fort Lauderdale.

Berkeley, Calif. -- August 31, 2026 -- Cricket Australia has launched Cricket TV, a direct-to-consumer streaming service built on Eluvio's Content Fabric and AI Video Intelligence platform, Eluvio announced. The service, available at tv.cricket.com.au, entered early access ahead of a full commercial rollout planned later in 2026. Cricket TV combines live match streaming, archival footage, highlights, and original documentaries for cricket fans outside Cricket Australia's existing broadcast markets.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- August 28, 2026 -- ZDF replaced its scheduled 1:00 a.m. broadcast slot on Friday, Aug. 28, with a rerun of "Terra X History: Nordmänner – Die wahre Geschichte der Wikinger," a 2025 German production that first aired on the network on May 10, 2026. The public broadcaster confirmed the swap in a programming notice issued at 2:55 p.m. on Aug. 28 through news aktuell. The originally planned repeat of "Terra X History: Was ist deutsch? Die Geschichte der Migration" was dropped from the lineup entirely. ZDF said the rest of Friday's broadcast day continues as planned starting at 1:45 a.m.