
Tom Butts
Tom has covered the broadcast technology market for the past 25 years, including three years handling member communications for the National Association of Broadcasters followed by a year as editor of Video Technology News and DTV Business executive newsletters for Phillips Publishing. In 1999 he launched digitalbroadcasting.com for internet B2B portal Verticalnet. He is also a charter member of the CTA's Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Since 2001, he has been editor-in-chief of TV Tech (www.tvtech.com), the leading source of news and information on broadcast and related media technology and is a frequent contributor and moderator to the brand’s Tech Leadership events.
Latest articles by Tom Butts

2025 NAB Show: Bringing the Drama to Sports Fans Beyond the Venue
By Tom Butts published
NAB Show Producers find excitement in the backstories behind the game

TV Tech Announces Winners of Best of Show Awards at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
Awards are judged on innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the media & entertainment tech industry

EdgeBeam Seeks to Give TV a National Footprint
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Ownership rule changes, 1.0 shutoff date crucial to successful rollout

Grass Valley's New CEO Discusses Company's Financial Health, AMPP's Increasing Role in Live Production
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Jon Wilson: ‘We’re in an incredibly strong position now’

Atlanta DTH Updates NextGen TV Box With Support for DRM Playback
By Tom Butts published
Company also launches NextGen TV USB Tuner for Android and Fire OS Devices

Sony Previews 2025 NAB Show Plans
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Booth and product introductions support four key areas: live production solutions, news and production workflows, imaging solutions, and virtual production

Honoring a Digital TV Pioneer
By Tom Butts published
NAB Show Dennis Wallace, this year's recipient of NAB's Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award for television played an important role in the transition to digital broadcasting

Grass Valley, Ross Announce Tech Partnership
By Tom Butts published
GV’s Maverik can now be directly controlled by Ross Overdrive

Sinclair, USSI Global Testing Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO Network for Live News Production
By Tom Butts published
Company representatives to share details from recent field trials at the 2025 NAB Show

Vizrt to Highlight AI Graphics Solutions, Viz Connect Audio for NDI at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB Show Highfield AI to demo integrated AI graphics solution; Viz Connect is company’s first dedicated NDI audio connection solution

Gray, FOX 9 Bring Minnesota Twins Back to Broadcast TV
By Tom Butts published
First time MLB franchise exclusively on over the air TV since 2012

Cinegy, Scale Logic Showcase Strategic Partnership at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
Partnership enables Scale Logic to offer comprehensive, turnkey solutions for media organizations throughout North America

FOR-A America Marks NAB Show Debut of Fully Software-Based Switcher
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW FOR-A MixBoard Powered by ClassX enables users to create complex compositions with unlimited layers via an intuitive GUI

UFL Goes Global with DAZN Deal
By Tom Butts published
DAZN to broadcast every game of the 2025 United Football League season to fans in 200 markets around the globe on a free-to-air basis

Avid Accelerates Move to Cloud Production With AWS Agreement
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Collaboration will simplify deployment, reduce costs, increase flexibility, and enable real-time collaboration for production teams

Meet Rich Welsh, SMPTE’s New President
By Tom Butts published
SUMMIT New leader seeks to bring in new talent to 100+ year-old standards organization

Station Group Asks FCC to Allow LPTVs to Move to An All Datacasting Model
By Tom Butts published
Requests commission approve 5G Broadcast for LPTV

DOGE Grills Public Broadcasters on Capitol Hill
By Tom Butts published
'PBS is one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry'

GatesAir to Debut ASTC 3.0 Modulator for LPTV at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
New FPGA design innovation brings down the cost of ATSC 3.0 modulation, increases processing power for GatesAir’s low-power UHF transmitters

Avid Discusses New Leadership, NAB Show Plans
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Avid and Wolftech to debut seamless, digital-first newsroom integration and AI-driven workflows to accelerate storytelling

Leader to Unveil NDI Checker at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW NDI Checker can display a full list of NDI signals in the implementation, give clear access to all the technical parameters of any individual signal, provide a confidence monitor and create an event log

Miami Gets New ABC Affiliate
By Tom Butts published
WSVN to add ABC programming to subchannel while WPLG, Berkshire Hathaway Media's only local TV station and long time ABC affiliate, will go independent

Rohde & Schwarz to Focus on ATSC 3.0 at 2025 NAB Show
By Tom Butts published
NAB SHOW Company will also demo its new transmitter monitoring service
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