ATSC News
Edge Caching Content Demo Shows Congestion Relief Option
ARK Multicasting, Inc. (“ARK”) today announced the successful pilot of their last mile edge caching technology over the Next Gen TV standard of ATSC 3.0. The demo showed ARK caching 4K, HD, and SD video files on a consumer edge device for video on demand. The files were transmitted from a Low Power TV (“LPTV”) […]
First-Wave ATSC 3.0 Entrepreneurs: Big Interest in Innovation
BALTIMORE — Did you hear the one about the guy who got more than 12 times the Kickstarter funding he requested to develop a new ATSC 3.0 device? “I quit my ‘day job’ when ATSC 3.0 came around,” said Nick Kelsey, founder and chief technology officer of Silicon Dust, maker of networked TV tuner and DVR devices. […]
Someone You Should Know: Gopal Miglani of BitRouter
Gopal Miglani is the owner and founder of a software company, named BitRouter, which started in 1997. “That [BitRouter] was always my dream. It’s been 23 years now, living the dream.” His started in India where he earned an electrical engineering degree before traveling to the United States in 1985 to earn his master’s degree […]
October Happenings
October 9 TG3/S33, Specialist Group on Management and Protocols October 12 India Implementation Team TG3/S37, Specialist Group on Conversion and Redistribution of ATSC 3.0 Services October 13 TG3/S36, Specialist Group on ATSC 3.0 Security Planning Team 6 – Global Recognition of ATSC 3.0 October 14 TG3/S32, Specialist Group on Physical Layer SFN/STL SG TG3/S31, Specialist […]
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR…Public Media Venture Group
ATSC 2020 sponsor Public Media Venture Group (PMVG) is a nonprofit business development consortium of 32 public media organizations in key markets across the country. PMVG was formed in 2017 to help stations prepare for the transition to ATSC 3.0, and to develop business and service opportunities that leverage the platform. PMVG is singular in […]
Oklahoma City Broadcasters Deploy ATSC 3.0
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—ATSC 3.0 (aka NextGen TV) continues to gain steam as five TV stations from the Oklahoma City area announced deployments. This marks the second time this week that NextGen TV has been launched, following deployments in Austin, Texas. The stations include Hearst’s KOCO-TV (ABC), Nexstar Media Group’s KFOR-TV (NBC) and KAUT-TV (IND); and KOKH-TV […]
Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV On Four Local Television Stations In Austin, TX
KXAN-TV, KEYE-TV, KNVA and KBVO-CD Begin Broadcasting with New Technology AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Four leading local television stations in Austin, TX, including KXAN-TV (NBC), KEYE-TV (CBS), KNVA (CW), and KBVO-CD (MyNet), today became among the first in the nation to begin broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology. Based on the […]
The Reimagination Story: From SMPTE
Today, I am delighted to share with you a reimagined SMPTE. As you see here on our redesigned website, SMPTE now showcases a bold new logo that better defines who the Society is today. It incorporates a stylized camera iris design combined with our iconic color bars, calling back to our origin as an engineering […]
Scripps Purchases Ion Media for $2.65B
From: TVTechnology CINCINNATI—The E.W. Scripps Company has announced that it has acquired the national broadcast network Ion Media for a price of $2.65 billion. The deal will combine Ion with Scripps’ Katz networks and Newsy, creating a national television network business, according to Scripps announcement. Berkshire Hathaway, which is owned by Warren Buffet, is supporting […]
From Evoca to STIRR to VUit, How Broadcasters Are Tapping into ATSC 3.0
The broadcast industry has been eagerly awaiting the rollout of ATSC 3.0, precisely because the next-gen technology standard empowers TV stations to do things TV stations aren’t known for doing. And finally, we’re seeing new companies and ventures delivering real-world applications that use ATSC 3.0 and other technologies in clever and possibly transformational ways. Startup […]
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