ATSC News
Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV On Six Local Television Stations In Mobile-Pensacola
WEAR-TV, WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, WFNA, WFGX, WJTC Begin Broadcasting with New Technology MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Six leading local television stations in the Mobile-Pensacola area, including WEAR-TV (ABC), WKRG-TV (CBS), WPMI-TV (NBC), WFNA (CW), WFGX (MyNet) and WJTC (IND), have become among the first in the nation to begin broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast […]
Cable-Tec Expo Discusses Opportunities in NextGen TV
Presenters at the virtual SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2020 on Oct. 14 examined a pair of ATSC 3.0-related issues of importance to cable operators, including the technical considerations of transitioning headend operations as broadcasters begin to take on NextGen TV and the opportunities the new broadcast standard offers to deliver enhanced TV viewing experiences to audience […]
Evoca Debuts First 4K Broadcast Channel in the U.S.
BOISE, Idaho—Evoca has launched what it says is the first over-the-air 4K UHD channel in the U.S. via its ATSC 3.0 TV service. Insight TV, which features adventure-focused programming in 4K UHD picture quality, is now available to Evoca users in Boise 24/7. The Evoca platform is billed as an over-the-air alternative to traditional cable […]
ONE Media’s ATSC 3.0 Smartphone Becomes a Reality
HUNT VALLEY, Md.—ATSC 3.0 in smartphones took a big step forward this week with delivery of the first of hundreds of production sample phones to the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a key part of the station group’s strategy to ensure that NextGen TV one day is an integral part of mobile phones and other devices. The […]
Rolling Out Broadcasting’s Next Generation
Congratulations are due once again to U.S. broadcasters for their ongoing rollout of ATSC 3.0. With the launch of Austin, Texas, Next Gen TV services are now offered in a dozen markets, and we hear that more markets are on the path to launch this month. You can follow along on the on the ATSC […]
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 […]
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