Florida First Responders Trying Mobile DTV

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Now that hurricane season is officially underway, TV viewers have a new option for staying informed about area storms — particularly when bad weather threatens cell service. The National Association of Broadcasters and the Florida Association of Broadcasters are joining with mobile TV service provider Dyle to loan up to 100 Dyle TV receivers to […]

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Sinclair’s Aitken Earns Lechner Recognition

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Mark Aitken is the 2013 recipient of the ATSC’s highest technical honor, the Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award.  The presentation was made during the ATSC Annual Meeting in May at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center. The Lechner Award is bestowed annually to an individual representative of the membership whose technical and leadership contributions […]

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SMPTE Entertainment & Internet Conference Approaching Fast

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

ATSC members are invited to attend the June 18-19 “Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age” conference at Stanford University, produced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in partnership with the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. The event will explore the technical, creative, and business requirements for delivering a compelling, high-quality, monetizable […]

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ATSC 2.0: Open MediaHub Concept

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Combining strengths of broadcast and Internet delivery technologies to provide a central, transparent mechanism for supplying high-quality broadcast content to any device connected to the home network By MARK CORL Chief Technology Officer, Triveni Digital To both hasten the acceptance of the new standard and to verify that the services defined are viable, the anew ATSC […]

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Mobile EAS Implementation Team Tackles Alerting Practices

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

With the standard adopted for the Mobile Emergency Alert System, work now turns to the newly-empaneled Implementation Team to fill in the gaps between what stations are transmitting, how the alerts are inserted into the broadcast steam, and what happens on receiving devices that pick up the Mobile EAS transmissions. Three areas have been identified […]

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Lake On ATSC 3.0: Don’t Let Grass Grow…

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

FCC Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake was the keynote speaker at the 2013 ATSC Annual Meeting in May. Acknowledging the tremendous work of the ATSC and its members, he highlighted opportunities and challenges on the horizon for terrestrial broadcasting. Excerpts of his remarks follow. ‘Added capabilities of ATSC 2.0 are a down payment, but the potential […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on June 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Our 2013 Annual Meeting last month in Washington lived up to our theme, “ATSC is the Place,” with updates on how the Internet and our mobile society are impacting broadcasting’s future and an insightful keynote address by FCC Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake. Bill’s remarks, excerpted in this issue of THE STANDARD, and the panel […]

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ATSC Updates CALM Act’s TV Loudness Recommended Practice

Posted on May 1, 2013 in ATSC News

ATSC has delivered an updated version of ATSC A/85, the core technology mandated by the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The A/85 Recommended Practice (Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television) provides the industry with uniform operating strategies that optimize the audience listening experience by […]

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Media Report: 2.0 Powers TV

Posted on May 1, 2013 in ATSC News

TVNewsCheck ATSC 2.0 Aims To Power TV To Next Level  The soon-to-be standard will not only let broadcast viewers store and watch video on demand — in non-real time — but also call up graphics and data. And it will let marketers broadcast interactive and targeted advertising. Some of the new services will be on […]

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Media Report: ATSC 2.0 Demo

Posted on May 1, 2013 in ATSC News

TVNewsCheck ATSC 2.0 Demo Shows Near-Future of Broadcasting By Andrew Dodson Tucked away in the back of the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall is a pretty impressive demonstration that shows what broadcasters would be capable of delivering in the next few years. The Advanced Televisions Systems Committee is showing off ATSC 2.0, an enhancement […]

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