Rants & rAVes — Episode 1498: Clear-Com’s Dave MacKinnon on AI, Interoperability and Broadcast Workflow Shifts

I caught up with Clear-Com’s Dave MacKinnon after NAB Show 2026 to talk about what the company heard from customers and partners on the show floor and what those conversations revealed about the future of broadcast workflows. We talked about the growing pressure on content creators to do more with less, the industry’s cautious approach […]

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1498: Clear-Com’s Dave MacKinnon on AI, Interoperability and Broadcast Workflow Shifts

At NAB Show 2026, Everybody Was the End User

It’s been a minute since NAB Show 2026 wrapped, but I feel compelled to include my thoughts here anyway. (Sometimes it takes me a minute to get myself together, OK!?) I mentioned some of these thoughts on LinkedIn, but I needed more space to fully write about what I saw and what I thought of […]

At NAB Show 2026, Everybody Was the End User

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1497: Telos Alliance, AI Audio Tools, IP Infrastructure and What NAB 2026 Means for ProAV

Post-NAB Show 2026, I sat down with Telos Alliance’s Costa Nikols to talk about the technologies and workflow trends beginning to reshape both broadcast and ProAV. We discussed how AI-powered tools are helping simplify complex audio environments, why IP-based infrastructure continues to gain momentum and what integrators should realistically be preparing for as cloud, virtualization […]

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1497: Telos Alliance, AI Audio Tools, IP Infrastructure and What NAB 2026 Means for ProAV