With an eye on the close of 2025 and the immediate horizon of 2026, we have consulted diverse industry leaders who have collaborated with the magazine throughout the year, inviting them to share a reflection, based on their experience, on the year coming to an end and the one ahead. Drawing on their testimonies, we take stock of the year and anticipate the key factors that will shape the evolution of the broadcast industry
The broadcast industry continues to move forward amid a complex process of transformation, in which new opportunities are emerging alongside significant challenges. This is one of the key conclusions of 2025. The transition is now unavoidable. However, when it comes to putting it into practice, difficulties arise that go beyond purely technological considerations and force the industry to rethink its models, structures and priorities.
To take the pulse of this pivotal moment, we have consulted a selection of industry leaders who have collaborated with the magazine over the past year, asking them for a review of 2025, a look ahead to 2026, and a broader reflection on the levers that will drive the sector’s growth in the medium and long term.
From this analysis, several common vectors emerge: the steady advance of the transition to IP; the progressive convergence of the broadcast, IT and ProAV worlds; growing challenges related to talent and cybersecurity; and, cutting across all of them, the impact of artificial intelligence.
Eight sections
We have divided this special feature —which can be read in full in the latest issue of TM BROADCAST— into eight sections, which you can explore below:
Year Ahead Special (I): Artificial intelligence: from what can be done to what should be done
Year Ahead Special (II): Talent shortage: the major bottleneck
Year Ahead Special (III): Convergence of broadcast, enterprise, IT and ProAV
Year Ahead Special (IV) | Interoperability and collaboration: from theory to practice
Year Ahead Special (V) | Transition to IP: a hybrid approach gains ground
Year Ahead Special (VI) | Limited resources and public cloud: the cost dilemma
Year Ahead Special (VIII) | Growing momentum for LED and software-based systems
With insights from
Jon Wilson, CEO, Grass Valley
Jan Eveleens, CEO, Riedel Product Division
Simen K. Frostad, Chairman, Bridge Technologies
Scott Stiefel, CEO, Telos Alliance
Andy Bellamy, Technical Director, AJA
Ubaldo Toni, Chief Technology Officer, RAI
Morten Brandstrup, Head of Newstechnology, TV 2 Denmark
Adde Granberg, Head of Innovation, SVT
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