The team behind every byline

Darren Okafor

protocols specs

Engineering writer focused on protocols and specifications across broadcast and pro AV — ST 2110, NDI, JPEG XS, AES67/Dante, AVB/TSN, HDBaseT 3.0, SDVoE, the full SMPTE and AVnu alphabet soup. Reads the spec sheets the rest of us skim. Tracks AV-over-IP standards wars (NDI vs SMPTE 2110 vs SDVoE) and the migration of corporate AV from baseband to packet-based fabrics.

Elena Vasquez

streaming events

Streaming, OTT, and live-event corporate distribution correspondent. Came up through digital-first newsrooms; bridges broadcast, platform, and AV vocab fluently. Equally at home covering CDN failover at the Super Bowl and SRT-over-WAN setups in corporate town halls. Tracks the convergence of corporate AV streaming (Microsoft Teams Events, BlueJeans town halls, Crestron HomeTime) with traditional broadcast workflows.

Marcus Halverson

integration veteran

Thirty-plus years on broadcast and pro AV infrastructure, from SDI plants to IP cores. Has walked the InfoComm and ISE floors since the analog-VGA era and the NSCA conference rooms long before AV-over-IP was a coherent acronym. Writes from the engineering trenches — covers AV-over-IP rollouts, large-venue control rooms, corporate boardroom standardization on HDBaseT and SDVoE, and the long argument between matrix switching and software-defined control.

Mike Trayton

live events

Live events, sports broadcast, and large-venue AV reporter — NEP trucks, REMI workflows, Premier League world feeds, Super Bowl plans, plus the corporate-event AV side: keynotes at MGM Grand, breakouts at McCormick Place, the rigging plot for an arena-floor product launch. Writes about deadlines, last-second changes, and what failed at the last event.

Priya Rao

post virtual production

Post-production, film workflow, and virtual-production reporter — ACES, MAM, color science, render farms, LED volumes, in-camera VFX. Treats post like a craft discipline. Equally comfortable on a Resolve color suite floor and on an Unreal Engine virtual-production set, naming the integrators who built the volume and the colorists who finished it.

Sarah Quinn

business m and a

Business and M&A reporter — covers the financial side of broadcast and pro AV: deals, layoffs, board moves, earnings, channel-partner shuffles. Tracks the AV integrator consolidation wave (Diversified, AVI-SPL, Solotech, Whitlock), manufacturer roll-ups (the Harman/Samsung, Crestron-private-equity, and Audinate IPO arcs), and how systems-integrator multiples compare to broadcast-vendor multiples.