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 […]
NAB NY 2020 to be Virtual Event
The NAB Show has decided to transition the upcoming NAB Show New York, originally scheduled for late October, 2020, to a new digital event following “extensive surveying of our show community and consultation with state and local officials in New York.” A new online event will take place in the fall and include TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 […]
Updating ATSC Standard Could Put an End to Manual Channel Rescans
Reprinted from TV Technology By Tom Butts Association touts automated software updates via ATSC 3.0 or even 1.0 WASHINGTON—As the three-year channel repack comes to an end next month, viewers of over-the-air television in certain markets will (once again) have to rescan their TVs to locate the new positions of local ATSC 1.0 channels. This is […]
President’s Memo: Celebrating Excellence
It’s exciting to see the transition of a technology from development to adoption. As we congratulate South Korea on its third anniversary of commercial ATSC 3.0 services, we are privileged to watch this transition as it unfolds in the United States. Broadcasters, consumer electronics device makers and technology vendors have teamed up to release the […]
Wednesday Webinars: Pearl TV Experts Start Summerlong Series This Week for Stations Planning ATSC 3.0 Upgrades
With deployments of ATSC 3.0-enabled NEXTGEN TV host stations ramping up, the technical team behind the award-winning Phoenix Model Market project is offering a series of seven free webinars every other Wednesday throughout this summer to television broadcasters. The course series begins this Wednesday, June 3 at 1:00PM EDT and continues every other week at […]
Cloud Collaborators: Thomson Broadcast, Triveni Digital, Synamedia, and Pace Combine Efforts to Advance ATSC 3.0
The deployment of ATSC 3.0 represents both a tremendous opportunity and a new challenge for companies that develop and offer solutions for broadcasters. Far more complex than digital television, ATSC 3.0 has the capability of merging broadband with broadcast content, offering many more choices for viewers and a potentially vexing number of challenges for broadcasters. […]
AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS UNDERSCORE FLEXIBILITYOF NEXT GEN BROADCASTING POWERED BY ATSC 3.0
The mission of ATSC’s Planning Team 5 on Automotive Applications (PT5) is to assess opportunities and challenges related to delivery of ATSC 3.0 services (including video, audio and other data) to vehicles. Following is a summary of the planning team’s update report presented to the ATSC Board of Directors by PT5 Chairman Dr. Jong Kim […]
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