ATSC News
NextGen TV Goes Live on Three Pittsburgh Stations
Reprinted from TVTechnology.com Michael Balderston PITTSBURGH—Pittsburgh joins the list of growing markets that have launched the ATSC 3.0 (aka NextGen TV) standard, as WPGH (Fox), WTAE (ABC) and WPNT (MyNet) stations began broadcasting ATSC 3.0 on this week. WPGH and WPNT are owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, WTAE is owned by Hearst Television. The three […]
FCC Says TV Ownership Rules Don’t Apply to Broadcast Internet via 3.0
Reprinted from TV Technology By Michael Balderston Commission also seeking comments on new uses for NextGen TV WASHINGTON—The FCC announced today that it will not apply long-standing TV station ownership restrictions to the lease of spectrum to provide “Broadcast Internet” services via the new ATSC 3.0 advanced television standard. This decision comes in the form […]
NAB NY 2020 to be Virtual Event
The NAB Show has decided to transition the upcoming NAB Show New York, originally scheduled for late October, 2020, to a new digital event following “extensive surveying of our show community and consultation with state and local officials in New York.” A new online event will take place in the fall and include TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 […]
Updating ATSC Standard Could Put an End to Manual Channel Rescans
Reprinted from TV Technology By Tom Butts Association touts automated software updates via ATSC 3.0 or even 1.0 WASHINGTON—As the three-year channel repack comes to an end next month, viewers of over-the-air television in certain markets will (once again) have to rescan their TVs to locate the new positions of local ATSC 1.0 channels. This is […]
President’s Memo: Celebrating Excellence
It’s exciting to see the transition of a technology from development to adoption. As we congratulate South Korea on its third anniversary of commercial ATSC 3.0 services, we are privileged to watch this transition as it unfolds in the United States. Broadcasters, consumer electronics device makers and technology vendors have teamed up to release the […]
Wednesday Webinars: Pearl TV Experts Start Summerlong Series This Week for Stations Planning ATSC 3.0 Upgrades
With deployments of ATSC 3.0-enabled NEXTGEN TV host stations ramping up, the technical team behind the award-winning Phoenix Model Market project is offering a series of seven free webinars every other Wednesday throughout this summer to television broadcasters. The course series begins this Wednesday, June 3 at 1:00PM EDT and continues every other week at […]
Cloud Collaborators: Thomson Broadcast, Triveni Digital, Synamedia, and Pace Combine Efforts to Advance ATSC 3.0
The deployment of ATSC 3.0 represents both a tremendous opportunity and a new challenge for companies that develop and offer solutions for broadcasters. Far more complex than digital television, ATSC 3.0 has the capability of merging broadband with broadcast content, offering many more choices for viewers and a potentially vexing number of challenges for broadcasters. […]
AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS UNDERSCORE FLEXIBILITYOF NEXT GEN BROADCASTING POWERED BY ATSC 3.0
The mission of ATSC’s Planning Team 5 on Automotive Applications (PT5) is to assess opportunities and challenges related to delivery of ATSC 3.0 services (including video, audio and other data) to vehicles. Following is a summary of the planning team’s update report presented to the ATSC Board of Directors by PT5 Chairman Dr. Jong Kim […]
Someone You Should Know: Glenn Reitmeier
Most people in the industry would consider it a major achievement to be involved in the creation of television standards once. Glenn Reitmeier, now in an industry consulting role, has been involved not once, but twice. Reitmeier’s career started when he joined RCA Sarnoff Labs in 1977 and spent the next 25 years there doing […]
20 NAB Express Presentations Highlight Features, Plans for ATSC 3.0
From the opening session of the virtual Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference originally planned for the Las Vegas NAB Show, to sessions about targeted advertising, antenna design, emergency alerting, consumer receivers, distribution links, and new revenue opportunities created with NEXTGEN TV, some 20 different papers, sessions, and panel discussions from the NAB SHOW EXPRESS are […]
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