🎙️ Episode preview: Ben heads to MPTS 2026 at Olympia London with a single diagnostic question that cuts through three years of vendor noise and AI fatigue.

🔍 The question? Who in broadcast is actually developing bespoke models. Not buying tools. Not running pilots. Building.

In this preview episode, Ben and AI co-host RaIAna set the scene for what's happening on the MPTS show floor and dig into the distinction that actually matters in broadcast AI right now.

What you'll hear:

• Why "we're doing AI" is the most useless sentence in broadcast in 2026
• The three things that genuinely qualify as a bespoke model — and the wrapper AI that doesn't
• Why nowcasting is broadcast-specific and can't be bought off the shelf
• The exact signal Ben is listening for in every conversation tomorrow
• Where FAST channels sit on the data science readiness curve
• Why the answer to "who built it" tells you more about an AI strategy than any vendor demo

🎯 The follow-up: in two weeks Ancast drops the field report from MPTS. What was heard, who's building, and what it tells us about where broadcast AI actually stands in Q2 2026.

📍 MPTS 2026 runs 13–14 May at The Grand Hall, Olympia London. If you're attending, find Ben on the floor and bring an answer.

🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

#BroadcastAI #MediaTech #MPTS2026 #Nowcasting #FAST #AIStrategy #BroadcastTechnology #Ancast #BespokeAI #BroadcastTransformation

🎙️ Special Personal Episode | Broadcast Media: The Inside Track

Four months into twenty twenty-six. One vision board. Two prophecies that held. A handful of people quietly holding the year up underneath the water.

This is the inside-the-inside-track episode. Less framework, more honesty. Ben sits down with RaIAna to walk through what has actually happened since the fifteenth of January, when he drew a four-quadrant vision board on a roll of paper at the kitchen table and underlined the line at the bottom twice.

In twenty twenty-six I am building a life that feels good deep within myself.

🧊 The Iceberg

Everyone sees the slide-ware. The webinar. The podcast. The LinkedIn post. That is the ten percent above the waterline. This episode is about the ninety percent underneath.

🎯 What you will hear

🗺️ The vision board itself, four quadrants, and the lines that have done the most work🌅 January, eight simultaneous fronts, and the strategic risk of running in too many directions at once🐉 The Chinese New Year prophecy, and why the eighteenth of February turned out to be the moment🎤 The OTTRED Artificial Intelligence in Media Think Tank webinar, and the audience it finally reached🤝 The three think tank leaders, Adriaan, Maria and Karel, whose goodwill steers shaped the framework🔧 The new technology partnership with MetaIP, and what aligned partnership actually feels like🌒 March, where the buzz fades and the iceberg matters most📐 April, where the foundations get poured underneath the surface🎙️ The voice agent strand, and how the two product lines have started to feed each other💬 The closing thank-you to everyone who is part of the iceberg under this year

🎙️ Featuring

🗣️ Ben Anchor, Founder, Ancast IntelligenceTwenty-five years in broadcast. UC Berkeley Applied Artificial Intelligence. Nowcasting methodology for broadcast scheduling. Voice agent architecture. Change management for artificial intelligence in media operations.

🤖 RaIAna, Artificial Intelligence Co-hostThe sharper questions, the gentler interrogations, the prompt to say the things that are usually left unsaid.

🎧 Perfect for

📺 Founders, consultants and intrapreneurs in broadcast and streaming🎯 Anyone wearing twelve hats and wondering quietly if any of it is working💡 Leaders thinking about partnerships, alignment, and the difference between pitching and being invited🧭 People building something new in artificial intelligence and media, and trying to do it with intention

🔗 Listen, follow, share

🌐 More on the work: ancast.co.uk

#BroadcastMedia #BroadcastAI #Nowcasting #AIStrategy #FAST #StreamingMedia #OTTRED #AncastIntelligence #VisionBoard #Founders #Consulting #Iceberg #AIinMedia #TheInsideTrack #MetaIP #PodcastForFounders #BroadcastInnovation #AIVoiceAgents #ChangeManagement #IndustryLeaders #BehindTheScenes #BuildInPublic #Twenty TwentySix

🚀 What does it really take to build and launch a brand new Smart TV product on a brand new national streaming platform — from the very first planning workshop to the moment millions of viewers hit play for the first time?

In this bonus deep-dive episode, ChAIse & AIva go behind the scenes on one of the most ambitious and high-stakes technology delivery challenges in modern broadcasting. And here's the thing that might surprise you — the hardest part was never the technology.

🚂 Picture this: You're tasked with building a brand new ultra-modern transit system for a major city. But you have to perfectly connect several legacy train lines built decades apart, using completely different gauges of track — and you cannot stop the trains. Not for a single minute. Every commuter still needs to reach their destination on time, every day, throughout the entire construction.

That's what delivering a unified national streaming platform actually feels like from the inside.

This episode traces the full arc — from audacious vision to go-live day and beyond. ChAIse & AIva unpack why the most complex delivery challenges of the digital age aren't solved by the smartest engineers in a room. They're solved by governance, discipline, alignment, and something the team on this project called "operational empathy."

🔍 In this ~18 minute deep dive, we get into:

🔹 Why throwing engineers at the problem first is a guaranteed recipe for expensive, public failure🔹 How months of workshops and cross-party alignment sessions became the true foundation of the platform — before a single line of code was written🔹 What a Target Operating Model actually is — and why without one, every incident becomes a blame game between organisations🔹 How the delivery was broken into eight highly coordinated workstreams — and why strict coordination between them was just as important as the work itself🔹 The invisible but critical work of dependency mapping — and how it prevented potential disasters before they happened🔹 The bold decision to execute a platform-wide code freeze ahead of a major national live event — and why the entire team embraced it rather than resented it🔹 The military-level discipline of go-live readiness — gating routines, staged environment releases, pre-flight checks, and a promote-to-live tech plan that left nothing to chance🔹 Why launch day is just the beginning — and how a cross-party incident management system was built to keep the platform running flawlessly long after the cameras stopped rolling🔹 What it means to engineer operational empathy — connecting organisations so deeply that everyone sees the same data, speaks the same language, and resolves problems together as one unified team

🤔 And we leave you with this thought to carry into your day:

As flawless, unified, multi-provider streaming becomes the absolute baseline — as viewers demand perfection every single time they hit play — will the walls between the world's major streaming platforms eventually have to come down? Will they all be forced to adopt this same blueprint of shared infrastructure and operational empathy just to keep us watching?

Something to think about. 👀

Whether you're a delivery professional, broadcast technologist, media executive, or simply someone who hits play and expects it to just work — this episode will permanently shift how you see the invisible infrastructure holding modern media together.

🎧 Available on all major podcast platforms

#BroadcastTech #SmartTV #StreamingPlatform #MediaInnovation #ProjectDelivery #TechLeadership #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfMedia #OperationalExcellence #PlatformLaunch #TargetOperatingModel #GoLive #ReinventingBroadcast #ChangingLandscapes #AIinBroadcast #MediaTech #DeliveryLeadership #BroadcastConsulting #Ancast #ChAIse #AIva #OperationalEmpathy #PlatformEngineering #NationalStreaming