- /manufacturers index + DirectoryClient: convert white/light-ink theme
to BB dark theme so it stops standing out against the rest of the site
- /manufacturers/[slug]: same conversion, includes the new executives
card grid and Headquarters block
- /nab-2026: same conversion, including hero gradient and sponsor tile
borders (amber on dark instead of amber on white)
- Forum: remove "Top Performing Threads" widget from both /forum and
/forum/[slug] (display only — TopThreadsWidget component preserved
in case admins want to re-enable later)
- Forum hero: vertical padding py-10 → py-5, tagline reduced from
three sentences to one. Adds a "Sign in to post" or "Start a thread"
CTA in the hero's top-right depending on auth state.
- Recent Forum Posts ticker: drop replies entirely, surface only thread
titles so breadth of conversation shows instead of the loudest
threads dominating with reply chatter.
Editorial rule is no paid AI services in production — this endpoint was
calling api.anthropic.com which violated that. Rewires to local Ollama
at 10.10.0.67:11434 using llama3:latest (warm, ~4.7GB, reliable).
Adds 3-attempt retry with backoff for 503/busy responses since AI_002
is shared with the article rewrite pipeline that periodically saturates
Ollama's pending queue. Drops max_tokens 1024 → 512 to keep responses
snappy and reduce queue pressure.
OLLAMA_HOST + BB_ASK_AI_MODEL env vars supported for overrides.
Removes the "AI not configured" 503 — the only way that error fires
now is if Ollama itself is unreachable for all 3 retries.
/api/ai/submit and /api/submission-receive now scan incoming payload
title + body against the bb.disallowed_phrases allowlist (cached 3
min) and return 422 with the matching phrases if any are found. Stops
competitor mentions from re-entering the pipeline after the bulk
purge.
Feature 3 — forum auto-linking
Thread + reply bodies in /forum/thread/[id] now wrap company-name
mentions with /manufacturers/<slug> links via a new client-side
LinkifyPlainText component. Loads the directory list once per page
(module-level promise cache), regex-scans each body, preserves
whitespace, caps at 10 links per body to avoid clutter.
CompanyMentionsHover mounted on the page so the same preview card
pops on hover.
Adds /api/public/companies/list — minimal { name, slug } directory
feed, cached 10min.
Feature 4 — /nab-2026 live coverage hub
New page aggregating every directory company with exhibits_nab=true.
Three sections:
- Coverage Partners — active advertisers exhibiting at NAB, larger
tiles with emerald Sponsor border
- Latest from the show floor — last 60 days of articles with NAB
in the title, cinematic grid
- All NAB 2026 exhibitors — alphabetical, capped at 200 with link
to full /manufacturers directory
Every company tile carries data-company-slug for hover previews.
Feature 5b — Sponsor logo strip on homepage
New SponsorLogoStrip server component renders just above the footer
on the homepage, showing logos of every current banner advertiser
with a directory entry + logo. Each links to the manufacturer
profile with the hover-card slug attribute.
Feature 5c — Recent coverage on manufacturer profiles
/manufacturers/[slug] now includes a grid of the 6 most recent
articles matching the company name in the title, with thumbnails.
Renames the existing manufacturer_id-linked block to "Press
releases" since it's a separate data source.
Feature 1 — sidebar
Adds a "Companies in this story" panel on every news article that
surfaces every directory company my linker matched in the body. Each
tile shows logo, name, Sponsor / NAB 26 / IBC badges, and a one-sentence
bio. Tiles link to /manufacturers/<slug> and carry data-company-slug so
the global hover card pops on hover too.
Extends company-mentions.ts with linkifyAndExtractMentions() that
returns both the linked HTML and the ordered list of matched slugs in
one pass, so /news/[slug] doesn't re-scan the body for the sidebar.
Feature 2 — unified typeahead
/api/search/suggest now returns { companies, items } — companies are
matched against bb.tracked_companies (directory_visible=true), capped
at 6, ordered by featured → mention_count, then bumped if they're an
active advertiser on broadcastbeat (adv schema lookup).
Header search dropdown renders a "Companies" section at the top with
logo, name, Sponsor badge (active advertiser) or NAB 26 badge, above
the existing "Stories" results. Each company link carries
data-company-slug so the hover card works in the dropdown too.
When an article body is rendered, scan it for any company name in
bb.tracked_companies (directory_visible=true) and wrap the first
mention of each company in
<a class="company-mention" data-company-slug="...">Name</a>
linking to /manufacturers/<slug>. Caps at 12 mentions per article so
heavy press-release lists don't get visually noisy.
Match rules:
- Word-boundary, case-insensitive
- Skips text already inside <a>, <script>, <style>, code/pre/headings
- Skips any element with data-no-autolink="true"
- Longest name wins on overlap (Sony Pictures beats Sony)
- One link per company per article (first occurrence)
Hover behavior: a new CompanyMentionsHover client component mounts once
per article page, listens globally for [data-company-slug] hovers, and
pops a floating card showing logo, name, 2-sentence bio, sponsor/NAB/IBC
badges, HQ city, 3 recent stories, and links to the full profile +
external website. Preview data fetched from new endpoint
/api/public/companies/[slug]/preview
with a client-side cache keyed by slug.
Includes non-advertisers — any visible directory entry gets linked,
which is the point. If a company is *also* a current banner advertiser
on broadcastbeat, the hover card adds a green "Sponsor" badge.
Styling: dotted underline that becomes solid on hover, slightly bolder
weight, accent color on hover. Subtle so multi-mention paragraphs don't
look like a link-soup.
Three-tier sort on the Industry News feed:
1. Premium — articles pinned via adv.featured_story_slots (paid slots).
Sorted by position ascending. Highlighted with an amber left-border
gradient + ★ Featured ribbon.
2. Advertiser — articles whose title contains the company name of a
current active banner advertiser on this property, AND were published
in the last 48 hours. Highlighted with a blue left-border gradient
+ ◆ Advertiser ribbon. Multiple matches ordered by publish date.
3. General — everything else, newest first.
After 48h, advertiser stories naturally drop back into the general
tier. Premium slots fall off when their ends_at passes.
Detection is title-only with case-insensitive word-boundary match; the
longest matching company name wins so "Sony Pictures" beats "Sony"
when both advertise. Backed by the new adv.active_advertisers_by_
property view.
createAdminClient() now accepts an optional schema arg so we can hit
adv from BB without juggling clients.
API revalidate dropped 300 → 60s so the feed reflects campaign flips
within a minute.
Renders bb.manufacturer_executives rows as a card grid (photo, name,
title, bio excerpt, LinkedIn link). Adds a Headquarters section with
the street-level hq_address + phone (tel: link) + contact email. Bio
text is now whitespace-preserving so multi-paragraph copy from the
admin editor renders correctly.
Was linking to /news?category=Featured which silently fell back to the
unfiltered /news listing because "Featured" isn't in CATEGORIES and the
filter is tag-based, not category-column-based.
Adds getLegacyFeaturedArticles() that mirrors FeaturedBento's query
(category ILIKE 'featured', featured-flag-first sort) at limit 200, and
a thin /news/featured route that reuses NewsPageClient.
Problem: /admin/* pages redirect unauthed users to /login or /account,
both of which then hit middleware redirecting to distribute.relevant
mediaproperties.com. Distribute is on a different domain, so its session
cookie doesn't carry to broadcastbeat.com — sign-in there left admins
stranded on distribute's dashboard.
Fix:
- Remove /login (and /register) from middleware REDIRECT_PATHS. wp-login,
wp-admin, client-login still bounce to distribute.
- /login is now a real BB sign-in form (was a redirect to /client-login).
- Admin pages preserve return path via /login?next=<encoded path>.
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New public routes:
/manufacturers - searchable index, filter by show + first letter
/manufacturers/[slug] - profile page with bio, categories, trade shows, news, JSON-LD
Data sourced from bb.tracked_companies + bb.trade_show_exhibitors,
seeded from the NAB Show 2026 Map Your Show exhibitor list.
Adds schema extensions on bb.tracked_companies (slug, logo_url, bio,
contact, social handles, press_url, ad_status, exhibits_nab/ibc) and
bb.press_releases (manufacturer_id FK, source_url, published_at, status).
Each profile page emits Organization JSON-LD for SEO + canonical URL.
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- Homepage / Industry News query filters wp_imported_posts to
ai_rewritten_at IS NOT NULL so raw press releases never surface on
the editorial feed (NewsArticle JSON-LD was already in place).
- New /news-sitemap.xml route emits a Google News sitemap covering
rewritten editorial published in the last 48 hours, with
news:publication + news:publication_date + news:title + keywords.
- robots.ts now points crawlers at both sitemap.xml and
news-sitemap.xml.
After deploy, submit broadcastbeat.com to Google News Publisher Center
to start serving in News.
gear, technology, search, reading-list, show-coverage, authors/[slug],
forum/thread/[id] all now render the 300x600 + 300x250 stack as a
floating right column at the top of the content area. Existing
single-column page structure preserved (content wraps).
Maximizes impression count: every pageview across these pages now
counts 300x600 + every 300x250 in the stack, on top of the existing
728x90 in Header.
When multiple profiles share a display_name (Michael Carter, Alex
Rivera, etc.), .maybeSingle() blew up with PGRST116, returning 404.
Switched to ordered limit(1) so the earliest-created profile wins
and the route resolves deterministically.
- New DualSpeedTicker component (CSS keyframes, GPU-accelerated,
pause on hover, 28px rows, 17s BEAT / 40s FORUM, refresh 5min)
- /api/ticker/beat-news: last 7 days from bb.native_articles
- /api/ticker/forum-posts: latest threads + replies interleaved
- Mounted at the bottom of Header so every page gets it
- Scoped .bb-neon palette on homepage root: section heads +
text-shadow glow, neon-tinted card borders, emerald→cyan button
gradient, cyan hover state on links, subscribe boxes neon-bordered
- CSS-only — no layout changes
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- API: require auth on thread+reply POST (401 if !user); lazy-create
forum_user_profile via service-role; author_name = display_name
- UI: surface API errors (kill silent catch); auto-redirect to login
on 401; gate new-thread + reply forms with "Sign in to post" CTA
- /forum/login + /forum/register: forum-themed Supabase Auth pages
with ?next= redirect support
- /forum/profile/edit + /api/forum/profile/me: edit own forum profile
(username, display_name, bio, role, company, location, avatar)
- Header: logout button + sign-in/join links when not authed
- forum/user/[username]: show Edit Profile button when viewing own
Fixes posting bug: RLS rejected anon inserts with cryptic message
that the UI silently swallowed; now blocked with friendly 401 + redirect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previous state: '/' was 307-redirected to '/home-page', and the
home-page route declared canonical='/home-page'. Net effect on
SEO: Google indexed '/home-page' as the canonical homepage and
treated '/' as a transient redirect (no link equity passed).
Changes:
- next.config.mjs: replace the source:'/' destination:'/home-page'
temporary redirect with source:'/home-page' destination:'/'
permanent (301). Any existing crawler entry for /home-page now
consolidates onto '/'.
- src/app/page.tsx (new): re-exports default + metadata from
./home-page/page so '/' serves the homepage directly. No file
moves required, no relative-import breakage in the home-page
component subtree.
- src/app/home-page/page.tsx: canonical and openGraph.url
'/home-page' → '/'. The page still builds at /home-page but
the 301 above will redirect any hit before render.
- src/app/sitemap.ts: drop the duplicate /home-page entry — Google
shouldn't be told about a URL that just redirects.
- layout.tsx: load Lora (serif) + Inter (sans) via next/font/google,
self-hosted at build time, exposed as --font-serif / --font-sans
CSS variables on <html>. No CDN fetch, no FOIT, no GDPR concern.
- tailwind.css: --font-heading and --font-body now reference the
next/font variables with Georgia / -apple-system fallbacks for the
brief window before the self-hosted face is ready. --font-mono
upgraded to IBM Plex Mono → ui-monospace → Courier New fallback
(DoubleTicker chips already specify IBM Plex Mono directly).
- ArticleFeed: drop the FEATURED filter chip (duplicates the
Staff Editorial section above), add publish date alongside the
byline on every card, lift the homepage feed cap from 200 → 5000.
- api/public/posts: lift MAX_LIMIT to 10000 so client-side
pagination + infinite-scroll see the full archive.
1. Remove SystemStatusBar from root layout. The "29,220 articles
indexed / 13 events tracked / [v2.0.0]" strip ate vertical space
above the fold without serving readers.
2. /api/newsletter/subscribe was returning 500 "Failed to save
subscription" because:
- The route used the anon-session client and tried to UPSERT on
bb.newsletter_subscribers, but the table's RLS only has an
INSERT policy for the public role. Upsert needs INSERT+UPDATE,
so the second branch failed RLS.
- Switched to createAdminClient (service-role) — bypasses RLS,
which is fine because this is a server-side endpoint with
server-side email validation.
- Welcome email now sends via nodemailer in a non-blocking
background task so a slow SMTP doesn't hold up the response.
Newer HTML template, brand-aligned, with a real CTA back to
/news.
Side work to wire SMTP (done out-of-band):
- Created newsletter@broadcastbeat.com mailbox in Mailcow via
the API (2GB quota, active, no force-pw-update).
- Set SMTP_HOST=mail.onsethost.com, SMTP_PORT=587,
SMTP_USER/PASS/FROM_EMAIL/FROM_NAME in Coolify env so the
welcome email actually fires after the next deploy.
3. FeaturedBentoFromDb section header: "Featured · staff editorial"
(small mono caps) → "Staff Editorial" (font-serif 2xl/3xl, bold,
with a thin metadata line "Selected by our newsroom" beside it
and a 2px bottom rule). Matches the editorial typography on the
article pages.
Renders on every page via root layout. Behavior:
- 5s delay after first paint so it doesn't slam the user.
- Animates from a pill into the full card (bb-modal-pop keyframe);
respects prefers-reduced-motion.
- Heading "Get the latest in broadcast & media", email field,
Subscribe + "Not now" + close (X).
- Subscribe POSTs to the existing /api/newsletter/subscribe route
(native system — newsletter_subscribers table + SMTP welcome
via Mailcow/SMTP2GO). Listmonk wasn't installed anywhere on the
infra; switching to it later is a one-line URL change.
- "Not now" + backdrop click + Escape + X all dismiss for 7 days
via localStorage["bb_newsletter_dismissed"].
- On success → "Check your email" panel + auto-close at 4s;
subscribed flag stored in localStorage so the modal never
re-prompts that visitor.
Styling matches the site's dark-navy + electric-blue palette
(NOT the neon ticker palette). No layout/page shifts — overlay
only.
PLACEHOLDER: "Search broadcast news…" → "Search articles, gear,
vendors". Drops the weird ellipsis and the "we're a broadcast site
so 'broadcast news' is redundant" feel.
API (/api/search/suggest):
- Match expanded from {title, author_name} to
{title, excerpt, content, author_name} — surfaces hits when the
phrase lives deep in the article body.
- Returns a snippet object {text, matchStart, matchEnd} sliced
from the first hit (HTML-stripped), with ~80 chars of context on
either side and "…" markers when truncated.
- Returns matched_in: 'title' | 'excerpt' | 'content' | 'author' so
the UI can show "match in article body" / "match in byline".
- Returns date + author_name on each result.
UI dropdown (Header.tsx):
- Each suggestion now renders three rows:
1) Title (bold) + category chip
2) Snippet with the matched substring wrapped in <mark>
3) Author byline + date + (if match wasn't in title) a tag
showing where the match occurred
- Vertical stacking with a colored left-border on hover so the
active suggestion is visible.
CSS:
- Stack item layout, snippet with -webkit-line-clamp:2 so long
matches don't overflow.
- <mark> background uses the accent blue at 28% so the highlight
reads against the dark card.
Bug: the index page only fetched threads when user was actively
searching, filtering by category, or sorting non-default. Default
load → setThreads([]) → forum looked empty even though 50+
threads existed in the DB.
Fix: always fetch on mount + filter changes (drop the
isSearchMode gate on the effect), and add a Recent Threads
section in the default view above the Browse Categories list,
showing the 12 most recent threads with author + reply count.
API + DB unchanged.
USER PROFILES (/forum/user/[username]):
- New API at /api/forum/user-by-username/[username] resolves by
username OR display_name (URL-encoded), since forum threads/replies
store author_name = display_name. Returns the persona's profile,
thread history (up to 50), and recent replies (up to 20).
- New page renders the persona card with archetype badge
(Audio Engineer / Colorist / etc.) + expertise level badge
(beginner/intermediate/senior) + role title, company, location,
years_experience, join date, and an expertise-tags chip row.
- Two columns underneath: "Threads started" and "Recent replies"
with proper deep-links into each thread.
- Author names in /forum, /forum/[slug], and /forum/thread/[id] are
now <Link> elements pointing to /forum/user/<displayname>, with
onClick=stopPropagation so the card-level click handler doesn't
also fire.
FAVICON:
- Hand-built neon pulse waveform — emerald→cyan→purple gradient on
dark navy background, designed to read at 16×16 to 256×256.
- Multi-resolution favicon.ico (16/32/48/64) + SVG + PNGs at
16/32/48/64/96/192/256 under /static/favicons/.
- layout.tsx icons block now references all sizes including the
apple-touch sizes (192, 256).
No env / DB changes here — pure deploy.
The schema has upvotes / downvotes / vote_score; API + UI were
querying/reading upvote_count / downvote_count (non-existent
columns). Threads existed in the DB but didn't render.
- /api/forum/threads route.ts:
- 'top-voted' sort: order by vote_score (was upvote_count)
- 'newest' default sort: forum_threads has no 'status' column,
so order pinned-first via is_pinned, then last_reply_at desc
- UI ForumThread interface + components: rename
upvote_count → upvotes, add downvotes + vote_score so the
vote display in the thread cards and the admin moderation
list pulls live data from the existing columns.
After this lands and the deploy completes, the 50 seeded
threads + the 9 ai-seeded new threads + 253 backfilled replies
already in the DB will all render at /forum.
- layout.tsx: flip robots.index from false→true (and the matching
googleBot block). Drop the manual <meta name="robots"
content="index, follow"> in the JSX head — it was duplicating
(and conflicting with) the metadata-driven tag, so Google was
seeing both "index, follow" AND "noindex, nofollow" and taking
the more restrictive one. Now the metadata block is the single
source of truth.
- sitemap.ts: expand from 5,000 articles to up to 45,000 (catalog
is ~26k; cap leaves room for static + authors + events under
Google's 50k-per-file ceiling). Add /authors/[slug] entries
pulled from bb.author_profiles, and /events/[slug] entries
pulled from bb.events. Drop the duplicate /articles/[slug]
emissions — /news/[slug] is the canonical news URL.
- legacy-source.ts: page through the supabase query in 1,000-row
chunks via Range headers so the 25k cap actually returns the
full catalog (the previous `.limit(25000)` was getting silently
truncated at PostgREST's default 1,000 max_rows).
Phase B (Ollama rewriter) is live; the press-release scrubber +
AI featured-image jobs are running in background to clean the
catalog. User explicitly chose to open SEO now rather than wait
for those jobs to finish.
Row 1 (Live Wire, scrolls →): most recent imported + AI-rewritten
articles, neon-green label, monospaced [HH:MM] [SOURCE_CODE] prefix.
Row 2 (On Calendar, scrolls ←, slower): upcoming events from
bb.events (confirmed/tentative, start_date >= today), neon-cyan
label, [Mon DD] [SHORT_NAME] prefix.
Defensive: each query is in its own try/catch so a partial failure
renders an empty row rather than crashing the page — that was the
silent build crash that took down the prior DoubleTicker incarnation.
If BOTH queries return zero rows we render nothing instead of two
blank bars.
CSS tokens added to redesign-tokens.css:
- bb-marquee--reverse + bb-marquee--slow modifiers
- .bb-neon-bar / .bb-neon-label / .bb-neon-time / .bb-neon-code
(scoped class names so this is the ONLY place on the site that
uses the neon palette — rest of the site keeps dark-navy + blue)
User cancelled the wholesale neon redesign; only the dual-ticker
keeps the neon green/cyan styling.
The press-release rewriter (ai_rewrite_jobs) was stuck because:
- BB_REWRITE_PROVIDER defaulted to "anthropic" in code, AND
- production env still had BB_REWRITE_PROVIDER=anthropic, AND
- ollamaProvider.rewrite() was a stub that threw "not implemented".
Every job since 2026-01-26 hit Anthropic 400 "credit balance too
low" — 12 failed_api in a row.
Changes:
- Implement ollamaProvider against /v1/chat/completions on the local
Ollama (works against AI_001:11434 / llama3.1:70b). Same JSON
contract as the Anthropic provider; gets prompt_tokens /
completion_tokens out of Ollama's usage block.
- Flip the default provider from "anthropic" → "ollama" in
getProvider(), so the rewriter works out of the box now that the
Ollama implementation exists.
- Make the BB auto-story byline configurable via env. Default flips
from a 12-name pen rotation to a single "Ryan Salazar" byline for
Broadcast Beat (per editorial directive). AV Beat keeps its own
pen pool. Set BB_AUTOSTORY_BYLINE=rotate to restore the old
behaviour.
Production env still needs (set in Coolify dashboard):
OLLAMA_ENDPOINT=http://10.10.0.66:11434
OLLAMA_MODEL_DEFAULT=llama3.1:70b
BB_REWRITE_PROVIDER=ollama
BB_REWRITE_MODEL=llama3.1:70b
(remove ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
Drops the 540-line hand-curated map and replaces it with a real
bb.author_profiles table + view (author_profiles_with_stats) that
computes first_post_date / total_articles live from
wp_imported_posts. The page now resolves any slug correctly:
- Slug looked up in author_profiles; if no row, the slug is
titleized ("desert-moon-communications" → "Desert Moon
Communications") and used as the wp_imported_posts.author_name
filter, so articles + join date still resolve.
- "Joined ..." line is now the actual MIN(wp_published_at) for that
author, formatted as Month YYYY. Fixes Desert Moon showing 2020
when its first post was Nov 2013.
- Role line defaults to "Contributor"; staff/founder roles ride on
the new role column. Ryan seeded with "Founder of Broadcast Beat"
in the migration.
- About tab renders a contact card (address / phone / email /
website) whenever any of those fields exist on the profile row,
plus a profile-facts panel with location + member-since +
articles published + role.
- Bio is from the profile row; when empty, page shows
"No biography has been added yet for {name}" instead of falling
back to another author's bio.
Bios + contact details for the remaining ~160 authors are populated
by a separate Ollama+web-fetch enrichment job (next commit).
- Replace img.rocket.new mock URLs in authors/[slug] + FeaturedBento
with /assets/images/article-placeholder.svg (live DB data drives
these pages now; the static maps are fallback only).
- Replace broadcastb5322.builtwithrocket.new with broadcastbeat.com
in admin API routes, news detail, forum layout, and the 4 Supabase
edge functions that build outbound email links.
- Swap rocket-hosted JSON-LD logo URL in root layout for the local
/assets/images/logo.png we already ship.
- Drop img.rocket.new from the Next.js image-hosts allowlist;
add supabase.onsethost.com so storage proxy URLs can render.
The DB has had zero rocket.new image refs for weeks; this finishes
the job in the codebase so no page on broadcastbeat.com can render
a rocket-hosted asset anymore.
Authors page was rendering a hardcoded mock article list per slug,
with Ryan Salazar's slug falling through to the staff-reporter mock
list (847 fake articles). New behaviour:
- GET /api/author/[slug] returns ALL real articles where
bb.wp_imported_posts.author_name matches the canonical name(s)
for that slug. Slug → names map:
ryan-salazar → ["Ryan Salazar"]
james-whitfield → ["James Whitfield"]
sarah-chen → ["Sarah Chen"]
… etc.
Unknown slugs fall back to a Title-Cased guess.
Response: { total, articles[] }, cached 5min / SWR 10min.
- /authors/[slug] now fetches that endpoint on mount and replaces
the hardcoded list with the live one. Article count shown on the
profile header + sidebar is now the live total (not the
hardcoded 1200/847/etc).
- Version badge in the status bar bumped v4.2.1 → v2.0.0 to match
the actual public release.
Ryan Salazar's profile now correctly shows his 135 real bylines from
WordPress instead of the staff-reporter mock 847.
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/authors/ryan-salazar was falling through to the generic
'staff-reporter' entry — which is why the page rendered as
"Broadcast Beat / Broadcast Beat Editorial Team / Joined January
2020". Add a proper ryan-salazar entry to the authors map:
name Ryan Salazar
title Founder of Broadcast Beat
joinedDate December 2013
bio (~150 words, sourced from public bios on theorg.com,
JVC casebook, AV Beat, Broadcast Beat Q&A — covers
ProComm 1997 → SunSpots CTO → AV Beat 2005 → SMPTE
LIVE 2014 → Broadcast Beat 2013 → Broadcast Beat
Studios 2020 → NAB Show LIVE executive producer.)
Also corrected the staff-reporter joinedDate to "December 2013"
(matches actual founding date of the publication).
Separately: bb.user_profiles.role for Ryan was 'administrator' and
has been updated to 'founder' so any role-based displays show the
right title.
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