TVTechnology

Industry trade publications TV News Check and TVTechnology are both carrying a piece arguing that SRT, the Secure Reliable Transport protocol, has become the de facto standard among open internet transport protocols. The claim positions SRT as the dominant choice for moving video and other media reliably over the public internet, a role long contested by competing protocols in the broadcast and streaming sector.

Broadcast engineers will run the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games from a fully virtualized master control room, the first time an Olympic event has done so. Instead of hardware-based control rooms on site, production switching and playout will be handled through software, which organizers say cuts cost and equipment shipped to Senegal. Coverage by TVTechnology is drawing attention from broadcast-technology professionals tracking how virtualization scales to major live events.