ATSC News

Presidents Memo

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

Saluting ATSC’s Leaders “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations,” wrote management consultant Peter Drucker on the subject of leadership. Those words bring to mind sacrifice for the greater good and the comfort of […]

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Affordable Mobile Alerts Content Manager

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Serving Up the Affordable Mobile Alerts Content Manager By Jay Adrick, Harris Broadcast, Chairman ATSC Mobile EAS Implementation Team Broadcasters, hardware manufacturers and software suppliers are making great progress on developing the “Content Manager” for the ATSC-standard Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS).  It’s a software-based solution designed to integrate with a station’s existing emergency alerting […]

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Future of Broadcast Television Initiative Progress Report

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Management and Technical Committees Meet at IBC 2013 As a founder of the global Future of Broadcast Television (FoBTV) initiative, the ATSC and its members are actively involved in pushing this effort forward. During last month’s International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, ATSC members were in attendance as the FoBTV Technical Committee reported progress since NAB […]

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Member Profile: Oren Williams

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Dolby Laboratories’ Oren Williams ‘Adventures in Television’ After stretching his rock and roll legs for a short summer after college, Dolby’s Oren Williams decided to put his engineering degree to work by kicking off his career with Tektronix, where he would explore the transition to new digital platforms used for digital audio and video signals.  […]

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ATSC 3.0 ‘Physical Layer’ Technical Proposals Being Evaluated

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Detailed ATSC 3.0  ‘Physical Layer’ Technical Proposals Being Evaluated Representing a major milestone in the development of the next-generation broadcast standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has received 11 detailed technical proposals for the Physical Layer of the “ATSC 3.0” broadcast TV transmission standard. The next big step in the process is a series […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Making Progress October marks the exciting culmination of many months of work with formal submission of detailed technical proposals for the Physical Layer of the next-generation ATSC 3.0 Standard. The Physical Layer development process continues this month with tutorial presentations from each respondent that has submitted a proposal.  In parallel with work on the Physical […]

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Updated Core Standards Published

Posted on September 3, 2013 in ATSC News

A/53 and A/65 form the core of the ATSC Digital Television Standard. Major revisions of both standards have been completed and approved by the ATSC Membership. The newly published standards are: A/53 Part 1, “Digital Television System” A/53 Part 3, “Service Multiplex and Transport Subsystem Characteristics” A/53 Part 6, “Enhanced AC-3 Audio System Characteristics” A/65, […]

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Nominating Committee Volunteers Needed

Posted on September 3, 2013 in ATSC News

The ATSC’s Nominating Committee is charged with nominating candidates for the annual election of the ATSC Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee will also recommend one or two directors to stand for election as Board Chair of ATSC. The By-Laws of ATSC call for a total of 11 Nominating Committee members with the following committee […]

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Member Profile: Madeleine Noland

Posted on September 3, 2013 in ATSC News

ATSC 3.0 If you’ve participated in any ATSC 3.0 specialist committees, you’ve been a part of Madeleine Noland’s world. As ATSC advances this work, expect to see and hear more from her. She currently serves as Vice Chair of S31, Secretary of S33, and Chair of S31-1 (in hiatus), S33-3 and S34-3. She also actively […]

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Physical Layer ATSC 3.0 Proposal Submissions

Posted on September 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Reflect Enthusiasm for Next-Generation TV Standard Ten initial proposals from 19 organizations for the Physical Layer of the new “ATSC 3.0” broadcast television standard were submitted by the Aug. 23 deadline. The strong response to ATSC’s call for proposals, issued on March 27, underscores the tremendous interest by experts around the world in driving toward […]

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