ATSC News

CHAT ROOM: Conformance Performance

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

In the Chat Room this month, THE STANDARD sat down with Bob Campbell, who chairs the new ATSC 3.0 Conformance Implementation Team. The ATSC is fortunate to have such a noted international standards and testing expert leading this effort. In addition to his day job as Eurofin’s head of engineering and his intensive ATSC work, Campbell chairs the Improving Interoperability Task Force for the HbbTV Association, serves on the HbbTV Steering Group and co-chairs the CTA WAVE Test and Compliance Task Force.

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SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW: Alan Stein, Technicolor

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

Alan Stein is the Vice President for Technology, Development and Standards at Technicolor. He spends most of his ATSC time as chair of the S34-1 video ad-hoc group. In his “spare” ATSC time, he also actively participates in the ATSC’s S31 Specialist Group on System Requirements, S34 Specialist Group on Applications and Presentation, S37 Specialist Group on Conversion and Redistribution of ATSC 3.0 Services and the S34-2 audio ad-hoc group.

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DOG DAYS: July-August Events

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

The dog days of summer are upon us! In between family vacations and back-to-school preparations in July and August are quite a few technology group, specialist group, ad hoc group and leadership forums, highlighted by a series of important face-to-face meetings (July 24-26 in San Francisco). Summertime conference calls, events and dates of interest to ATSC members, industry colleagues and key stakeholders.

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SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Re-Imagining’ Emergency Alerting with ATSC 3.0

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

In its just-released final report entitled “Comprehensive Re-imagining of Emergency Alerting,” the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council’s Working Group 2 highlights the advanced emergency alerting capabilities of Next Gen TV powered by ATSC 3.0. 

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AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR… Cox Media Group

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

ATSC 2018 sponsor Cox Media Group (CMG) is an integrated broadcasting, digital media and publishing company whose operations include 14 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 60 radio stations, two daily newspapers and more than 80 digital sites.

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SOUNDBITE: ‘Big Data’

Posted on July 10, 2018 in ATSC News

“With 3.0, you’re no longer in the entertainment video business; you’re now in the data business.” – ONE Media’s Jerry Fritz at the 2018 Midwest Next Gen TV Conference

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Time to Double Down

Posted on June 5, 2018 in ATSC News

The 2018 ATSC Next Gen TV Conference, “The Road to ATSC 3.0,” is one for the history books. The record attendance, passionate speakers and an unprecedented level of cooperation and enthusiasm speak volumes about where we are on the journey along the Road to ATSC 3.0.

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THE ENVELOPE PLEASE…Corl Earns ATSC’s Highest Technical Honor

Posted on June 5, 2018 in ATSC News

Mark Corl received the 2018 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, the ATSC’s highest technical honor, at the ATSC Next Gen TV Conference. Corl, who led the development of the A/344 Interactive Content Standard, chairs the ATSC’s ad-hoc group working on the Runtime Environment for ATSC 3.0 applications.

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CHAT ROOM: Past is Prologue

Posted on June 5, 2018 in ATSC News

In the Chat Room this month, THE STANDARD sat down with the Honorable Richard E. Wiley.  Widely known as the “Father of HDTV,” the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission chaired the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service from 1987 to 1995.

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NEWSFLASH: ATSC Conference Confronts Advertising and Audience Measurement

Posted on June 5, 2018 in ATSC News

The broadcast engineers (who constituted most of the audience) at the annual Advanced Television Systems Committee meeting in Washington last week (May 23-24) heard something they rarely encounter: the role of advertising and audience measurement in the imminent rollout of the NextGen TV (also known as ATSC 3.0).

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