Free Webinars Help Broadcasters Unlock Potential of ATSC 3.0
Broadcast industry leaders Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Pearl TV business group are offering a series of free summer webinars of interest to broadcasters considering next steps for the transition to ATSC 3.0. Sinclair’s bi-weekly webinars starting in July are about the economic potential for ATSC 3.0. As the spectrum repack winds down and commercial […]
NextGen TV Deployment Picks Up Steam
By James O’Neal WASHINGTON—ATSC 3.0 (aka NextGen TV)—got off to a flying start early this year, with the first TV sets for U.S. consumers being displayed at CES in January and rollouts across the country set to go like a line of dominoes set in motion. Then came the pandemic. We’re now halfway through 2020. Has […]
WJLA, WTTG to Trial 3.0 Advanced Emergency Alerting in D.C.
By: Phil Kurz WASHINGTON—Two local television stations in the nation’s capital will conduct an eight week trial of ATSC 3.0’s advanced emergency warning capabilities, including text-based alerts and rich media, and the workflow needed to support the alerts, said Lane Michaelsen, Group News director at the Sinclair Broadcast Group during a June 23 webinar on […]
Someone You Should Know: Kevin Shelby, Coherent Logix
Starting his career with AT&T Consumer Products in Indianapolis, Kevin Shelby began his journey with a passion for image processing and the wonders of technology. He then continued to travel on an internship to New Jersey to work for Bell Labs in researching low bit-rate video coding that guided AT&T to the development of their […]
July Happenings
This month’s meetings, events and dates of interest to ATSC members, industry colleagues and key stakeholders. July 1 TG3/S32, Specialist Group on Physical Layer SFN/STL SG TG3/S38, Specialist Group on Interactive Environment July 2 TG3-6, AHG on DASH-IF July 6 India Implementation Team July 7 TG3/S33, Specialist Group on Management and Protocols TG3/S34, Specialist Group […]
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR…COMARK
The Comark Digital Services (CDS) group has been established within Hitachi-Comark to assist customers with the complexities of equipment selection, integration services, and field deployments of ATSC 3.0 / NextGen TV solutions. Hitachi-Comark and its CDS group have already been involved with several field trials and real-world NextGen TV deployments across the country. CDS focuses on “all things IP” including […]
NextGen TV Comes to Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY—Sinclair and Nexstar announced this week that four of Salt Lake City’s leading local television stations—KUTV (CBS), KTVX (ABC), KUCW (CW) and KJZZ-TV (Ind)—have launched ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV). This marks the fourth such deployment of major market stations, following similar recent launches by Sinclair and other station groups in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh and Nashville. BitPath, formerly […]
Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV On Five Nashville Network-Affiliated Television Stations
WTVF, WKRN-TV, WZTV, WUXP-TV, WNAB Begin Broadcasting with New Technology NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Five of Nashville’s leading local network-affiliated television stations — WTVF (CBS), WKRN-TV (ABC), WZTV (FOX), WUXP-TV (MyNet) and WNAB (CW) — today became among the first in the nation to begin broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast […]
NextGen TV Goes Live on Three Pittsburgh Stations
Michael Balderston PITTSBURGH—Pittsburgh joins the list of growing markets that have launched the ATSC 3.0 (aka NextGen TV) standard, as WPGH (Fox), WTAE (ABC) and WPNT (MyNet) stations began broadcasting ATSC 3.0 on this week. WPGH and WPNT are owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, WTAE is owned by Hearst Television. The three participating stations have […]
FCC Says TV Ownership Rules Don’t Apply to Broadcast Internet via 3.0
Reprinted from TV Technology By Michael Balderston Commission also seeking comments on new uses for NextGen TV WASHINGTON—The FCC announced today that it will not apply long-standing TV station ownership restrictions to the lease of spectrum to provide “Broadcast Internet” services via the new ATSC 3.0 advanced television standard. This decision comes in the form […]
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