ATSC News
South Korea Creates ATSC 3.0 Testing Facility
SEOUL—South Korea’s Korea Radio Promotion Association (RAPA) has planted an ATSC 3.0 flag on Jeju Island as it will open an ATSC 3.0 testing facility that will be open to international broadcasters, telecoms, broadcast equipment vendors and more in 2020.
UNC-TV in-house Media Innovation Lab to test additional NEXTGEN TV capabilities
UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina continues its work exploring the capabilities of NEXTGEN TV, particularly around how it may benefit Public Safety communications. UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television network, won the 2017 NAB Pilot Innovation Challenge grant for our proposed efforts to address a very specific problem brought to us by North Carolina Public Safety Communications leaders.
ATSC Happenings – FEBRUARY 2020 Events
February meetings, events and dates of interest to ATSC members, industry colleagues and key stakeholders.
Someone You Should Know: Sesh Simha, Sinclair Broadcast Group
If there’s a single word that describes Sesh Simha, Vice President of Advanced Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group, it would be “future-execution-driven.” Although he has a background in satellite and broadband, Simha said he has firmly embraced mobile and wireless communications.
And Now A Word from Our Sponsor: Triveni Digital
As our industry prepares for a future based on the powerful new evergreen broadcast standard, 2020 ATSC sponsor Triveni Digital has been hard at work. By devoting significant resources to the development of the NEXTGEN TV standards, and products that support it, we placed a major bet that ATSC 3.0 would transform the broadcast business.
Soundbite: ’20 ATSC 3.0-enabled TV Models’
“The first U.S. consumer television receivers equipped with NEXTGEN TV capabilities are coming to retail stores later this year, with the announcements at CES 2020 from the biggest names in the TV industry launching 20 ATSC 3.0-enabled TV models.” – TVNewsCheck, January 7, 2020
PRESIDENT’S MEMO: Cheers to 2020!
As we wrap up an amazing year for ATSC, we look ahead enthusiastically to the New Year with the expected rollout of ATSC 3.0 broadcasting in 60-plus markets across the United States. ATSC – the authoritative industry voice on the standard’s capabilities – is looking forward to supporting the U.S. broadcast ecosystem in preparing for this next big commercial launch, which follows South Korea’s successful ATSC 3.0 broadcasting rollout, now in its third year.
2019 TOP FIVE: ATSC Year in Review
What a year! As we prepare to usher in a new year – new decade, ATSC looks back at five memorable moments of 2019:
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE…Richer Named to ‘Giants of Broadcasting’
In recognition of his stellar four-decade television career, retired ATSC President Mark Richer has been named to the “Giants of Broadcasting,” the Library of American Broadcasting’s honor roll of industry luminaries who have defined the past, present and future of broadcasting.
NAB-CTA Test Station Winding Down: We’ll Always Have Cleveland…
Having provided useful information and practical insights over the past five years, activities at the NAB/CTA ATSC 3.0 test station in Cleveland are winding down. As Next Gen TV continues to transition from the development phase to the implementation phase, the need for an over-the-air test station sponsored and operated by the television industry as a neutral test facility has now become less critical. In addition, the FCC’s TV channel repacking plan has made the broadcast test station shutdown in Cleveland somewhat inevitable.
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