President’s Memo: Merry and Bright
Since the last issue of THE STANDARD we welcomed three more U.S. markets deploying ATSC 3.0. Audiences in Norfolk, VA, Raleigh-Durham, NC and Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL can now access Next Gen TV services from participating stations. Congratulations to all involved! Follow all the developments at atsc.org and the new consumer-oriented site watchnextgentv.com. As next-generation broadcasting […]
MARKING NEXTGEN TV’S THIRD ANNIVERSARY: REFLECTIONS FROM NAB, CTA, APTS, AND AWARN
While some people think that next-generation television took a “really long time” to develop, many may not realize that the progress seen in market-by-market rollouts only began after the Federal Communications Commission approved the voluntary deployment of the standard just three years ago. The FCC’s November 2017 approval of the standard was followed by the […]
ATSC Board Members Elected
Aitken, Corl and Fairhurst Begin Terms in January WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2020 – Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. elected three experienced industry executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms that begin in January 2021. Elected to the board for the first time is Mark Aitken of Sinclair […]
NextGen TV Consumer Awareness Holiday Campaign Launching to Educate Viewers, Promote Sales of NextGen TV Receivers
New Consumer Website WatchNextGenTV.com Offers Comprehensive Channel Listings, Purchase Guide for NEXTGEN TV Sets WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 16, 2020) – With a planned multimillion dollar on-air and online awareness campaign scheduled for over the holidays and into early January, Pearl TV and its Phoenix Model Market Partners today announced that it is coordinating a […]
Someone You Should Know… Muriel Médard, MIT
Muriel Médard has always been interested in tech transfer and the creative tension in engineering between theory and practice. That passion inspired her to co-found three companies in the area of network coding for the purpose of tech transfer, CodeOn (for transfer of intellectual property in network coding), Steinwurf (for the provisioning of best in industry ensure-correcting coding/decoding software for network […]
December Happenings
December 1 Planning Team 4 – Future Broadcast Ecosystem Technologies December 2 TG3/S32, Specialist Group on Physical Layer SFN/STL SG TG3/S32, Specialist Group on Physical Layer TG3/S38, Specialist Group on Interactive Environment December 3 Planning Team 8 – Core Network Technologies for Broadcast TG3/S41, Specialist Group on Video December 4 Planning Team 5 – Automotive […]
And Now A Word from Our Sponsor…Jampro
Jampro Antennas currently manufactures terrestrial FCC DTV transmission systems. Existing clients may transition from ATSC-1.0 to ATSC-3.0. Some have already started this major move. The Jampro legacy goes back to 1954. It now includes the AlanDick Broadcast product line based in the UK. These products descend from major European institutions. They include the BBC, EMI […]
NextGen TV Goes Live on Four Norfolk Stations
NORFOLK, Va.—NextGen TV is now being transmitted to viewers in the state of Virginia, with the announcement that four stations in the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News market have launched the next-gen broadcast standard powered by ATSC 3.0. The four stations involved in the launch are WAVY-TV (NBC), WVBT and WNLO-CD (Fox), all of which are owned by […]
Five Raleigh Stations Roll Out ATSC 3.0
Five Raleigh, N.C., stations — WTVD (ABC), WNCN (CBS), WUVC (Univision), WLFL (CW) and WRDC (MNT) — have begun broadcasting with NextGen TV or ATSC 3.0. Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet, digital applications and other web services, NextGen TV can support a wide range of features currently in development, such as […]
Society of Broadcast Engineers Releases ATSC3 Specialist Certification
The Society of Broadcast Engineers, in its continuing effort to advance its program of certification, has added a new Specialist Certification to its offerings: The ATSC3 Specialist. In addition to various certification levels that require a certain time of professional career experience and cover a broad knowledge base, the SBE offers several Specialist Certifications, each one […]
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