Bigger Station Groups Means Longer Shopping Lists

摘要

Ongoing consolidation, both among broadcast tech vendors and station groups, promises to make for a busy time for many of the top technologists at the groups as they converge on Las Vegas April 5 for the NAB Show. On the vendor side, acquisitions and mergers continue to reshape the broadcast equipment landscape as major suppliers such as Grass Valley and Miranda combine their operations. That will allow the larger merged tech companies to offer a wider range of products for broadcasters looking to reduce the number of vendors they use while it also raises some questions among buyers about the future of certain product lines. At the same time, a slew of station deals means that groups such as Sinclair and Nexstar will be looking for technologies to integrate newly acquired stations into their existing operations.