The rise of quadricycles, which are lightweight vehicles that typically come without a built-in radio, highlights a growing challenge for public service media in the evolving automotive landscape. David O’Neill of the new ARD Automotive unit explains why on pages 10–11 of the March 2025 issue of tech-i magazine.
Contents
- The EBU tech revolution: preparing for the next 100 years – Antonio Arcidiacono on the rich history of the EBU T&I department
- Guidance on data classification, CDN procurement, and 5G Broadcast network planning
- psmGPT workshop
- Sweating assets and the technology tango: CTO panel at PTS 2025 – Insights from the CTOs of four EBU Members
- The journey towards Dynamic Media Facilities – How an important new EBU initiative has taken shape
- Less complexity, more collaboration – a new exchange format for German PSM – ARD and ZDF have introduced a new MXF format
- Generative AI: promising for content creation but not yet ready for primetime – The results of an IBC Accelerator project led by the EBU and Rai
- Radio at risk: the absence of radio devices in quadricycles and the implications for PSM – Insights from the new ARD Automotive unit
- Ensuring clarity: new guidelines for Audio Description dip levels – A standardized approach to improve accessibility in broadcasting
- Late nights and frayed nerves in the search for spectrum solutions – What topics will dominate the next World Radiocommunication Conference?
- Oh smart! Strengthening collaboration on open-source software for media – Raising awareness of key tools for the media delivery ecosystem
- Sustainability Matters: Measuring the presence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in RTVE programming – An innovative analysis from the Spanish broadcaster
- In my opinion: Less budget, more content – public media goes smart – Harald Kräuter is Director of Technology and Digitalization at Austria’s ORF
- Partner Profile: Streaming Video Technology Alliance – Solving the foundational challenge of streaming
- AI-driven search, super-fans and subscription fatigue – media trends for 2025 – Insights from the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service
- In the spotlight: Jürgen Grupp – Senior Information Architect, SWR, Germany
