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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 […]
FCC Proposes Relaxing Ownership Rules for Broadcasters to Deliver Internet Services
Reprinted from TV Technology By Michael Balderston Commission to vote in June on using ATSC 3.0 for new service WASHINGTON—FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has revealed a plan to loosen media ownership rules to allow broadcasters to provide “Broadcast Internet” services via ATSC 3.0 (aka “NextGen TV”). The new standard, currently being deployed nationwide by broadcasters, combines […]
ATSC AWARDS ETRI’S LEE WITH HIGHEST TECHNICAL HONOR, BESTOWS LEADERSHIP MEDAL TO PHOENIX MODEL MARKET PARTNERS
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2020 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee today awarded its highest technical honor, the 2020 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, to Dr. Jae-Young Lee of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. ATSC also presented the Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal to the key partners of the Phoenix Model Market program, […]
“Next Gen TV” Could Offer Expanded Local Services During COVID-19
Reprinted from The Hollywood Reporter Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of broadcast stakeholders reported that they are proceeding to implement the U.S.’ voluntary “Next Gen TV” broadcast transmission system, while identifying what could be potential opportunities for local broadcasters to use the new services to support their communities during the crisis. The remote panel […]
UNC-TV, ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV and Public Safety
From SBE, an education update from Fred Engel, CPBE Chief Technology Officer at UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina.
ATSC 3.0 Holds Key to Educational Success in Stay-At-Home Era
Reprinted from TV Technology SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Closure of the nation’s schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the gap in access to broadband internet service between those with means and those without, those in cities and suburbs and those in rural America. With classrooms closed, school districts have turned to online meeting […]
Synamedia Unveils New Media Edge Gateway & Solutions for Cable Operators to Deploy ATSC 3.0
Reprinted from The Fast Mode Synamedia on Thursday announced a new media edge gateway and multiple solutions to support ATSC 3.0, the next-gen, IP-based broadcast signaling standard that will support 4K video encoding. These include Synamedia’s Media Edge Gateway, ATSC 3.0 receiver and Channel in the Cloud Solution. Read More >
Sinclair to Launch First ATSC 3.0 Station in Las Vegas on May 26
Reprinted from TV Technology By: Tom Butts LAS VEGAS—Sinclair says KVCW, the company’s CW affiliate in Las Vegas, will begin broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 on May 26, marking the company’s first commercial deployment of the NextGen TV standard. KVCW was originally scheduled to launch 3.0 broadcasts just prior to the NAB Show in April, but […]
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