What Have You Built? A Pre-MPTS Reckoning on Broadcast AI

🎙️ 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 2026The three things that genuinely qualify as a bespoke model — and the wrapper AI that doesn'tWhy nowcasting is broadcast-specific and can't be bought off the shelfThe exact signal Ben is listening for in every conversation tomorrowWhere FAST channels sit on the data science readiness curveWhy 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