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SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW: FRED ENGEL
Fred Engel is Chief Technology Officer of PBS North Carolina (formerly UNC-TV). He was just elected to his first term on the ATSC Board of Directors. Engel’s interest in ATSC 3.0 started when the call for proposals was made in 2013. He says he was excited to see the focus on an IP based system […]
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS)
The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) was one of the five organizations that in 1983 founded the ATSC (together with CTA, NAB, NCTA and SMPTE). A proud 2019 ATSC Sponsor, the BTS is a membership organization open to everyone in the broadcast industry and allied fields.
Business Wire: Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on five Local Television Stations in Charleston, WV
Charleston’s leading television stations this week officially began broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology. The launch includes WCHS-TV (ABC), WOWK-TV (CBS), WSAZ-TV (NBC), WQCW (CW) and WVAH-TV (Decades). Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet and digital apps, NEXTGEN TV can support a wide range of features that are […]
TVNewsCheck: Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on four Local Television Stations in Greensboro, NC
Television viewers in Greensboro, N.C. (DMA 47), can now experience the future of broadcast television as four stations have launched NextGen TV (also known as ATSC 3.0. Switching on the new transmission standard are Sinclair Broadcast Group’s WXLV (ABC) and WMYV (MNT); Nexstar Media Group’s WGHP (Fox); and Hearst Television’s WXII (NBC). The launch in […]
TV Tech: Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on 10 Local Television Stations in Houston, TX
In what is being billed as the largest NextGen TV launch to date, 10 local stations in Houston, the eighth-largest TV market in the United States, have launched ATSC 3.0 broadcasts. The launches involved the following TV station groups and stations: Fox Television Stations’ KTXH (My Network, channel 20) and owned-and-operated KRIV (FOX, channel 26). […]
NEXTGEN TV CONTINUES ITS MOMENTUM AND CONSUMER ADOPTION WITH LAUNCH OF NEXTGEN TV HOLIDAY BRAND MARKETING CAMPAIGN
(Press Release from Pearl TV) NEXTGEN TV is Now Broadcasting in 34 Markets and Projected to Reach 45% of U.S. Households by the End of the Year, Reaffirming the Future of Television Has Arrived WASHINGTON D.C. (Nov. 18, 2021)—Pearl TV, a business organization of U.S. broadcast companies, today announced that broadcasters and consumer electronics manufacturers […]
TV Tech: 2021 Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal Recipient, Sen. Gordon Smith, Gives Last State of the Industry Address
In his final State of the Industry address before leaving the association, president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters Gordon Smith laid out nine lessons for the industry that started with the importance of negotiating and included the admonition that the “NAB should never register Republican or Democrat, but as human, local and […]
President’s Memo: Building Bridges
This fall brings a host of new opportunities to share the progress of ATSC 3.0 with technical audiences all over the world, whether by virtual connections or the return of business travel. I was honored to be a presenter at the CABSAT Content Congress in Dubai to discuss “NextGen Broadcasting: New Technology Powering New Opportunities” […]
Q&A with Cordel Green, Executive Director, Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica
The long-awaited switchover to digital television in Jamaica has recently been announced. Television Jamaica Limited, an over-the-air broadcaster in Jamaica, is transitioning from Standard Definition operations to High-Definition services and from NTSC analogue transmission services to ATSC 3.0 digital transmissions. The government has announced a Digital Switch Over (DSO) start date of January 2022 and […]
TV Tech: Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on Four Local Television Stations in Hartford, CT
NextGen TV has arrived in the Hartford area, with the launch of ATSC 3.0 signals on four local stations. The launch involved Tegna’s WCCT (the CW affiliate on channel 20) and WTIC (Fox, channel 61), Meredith Local Media Group’s WFSB (CBS, channel 3), and Nexstar Media Group’s WTNH (ABC, channel 8). “NextGen TV will fundamentally […]
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