PRESIDENT’S MEMO: Resilience
COVID-19 is affecting us all, and I hope that everyone and their families, and our extended ATSC family, are all staying healthy and coping with the pandemic’s impact on our personal and professional lives. While the coronavirus spread continues to grow at alarming rates in the United States and elsewhere, some other countries such as […]
‘CORE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES’ PLANNING TEAM FORMED
The ATSC Board of Directors formed another new planning team: Planning Team 8 – Core Network Technologies for Broadcast. Known as PT8, this future-focused effort is not unlike the pioneering efforts of Planning Team 2 a decade ago. The work of PT2 – Next Generation Broadcast Television eventually resulted in the world’s first IP-based broadcast […]
TVN TECH | COVID-19 Delays, Not Derails, NEXTGEN TV Plans
By Glen Dickson The 2020 rollout of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation standard across the U.S. is still on track, say industry insiders, despite suffering a few short-term hiccups due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Simulcasts of all the major networks in the new standard are slated to be on-air in Las Vegas and Portland, Ore., by […]
REMEMBERING JIM HOUSTON
ATSC is saddened by the news that Jim Houston passed away on March 26th. Jim joined ATSC with Starwatcher Digital, and later became a Samsung employee. We are keeping Jim and his family, friends and colleagues in our thoughts at this difficult time. SMPTE announced Jim’s passing: With great sadness, the Hollywood Section of Society […]
NEXTGEN TV To Spur Transmission Market
By James O’Neal Reprinted from TVTechnology.com: Manufacturers are ready for where the new transmission standard will lead market WASHINGTON—Despite the heavy focus on completing the TV spectrum repack by the July deadline, manufacturers of transmission equipment have also been planning ahead for what comes next—NextGen TV and all that comes with it, such as hybrid connectivity, […]
Someone You Should Know: Tom Barbeau, Vice President of Engineering, Comark
Tom Barbeau, vice president of engineering at Comark, has done it all. He started out in the defense and aerospace industries as an electrical engineer working on guidance components. Since then, he’s worked image encoding for a high-speed OCR manufacturer and print recognition company, written transmitter control system code for Comark, and involved with MPEG, […]
And Now A Word From Our Sponsor…ATEME
ATSC 2020 sponsor ATEME is the video delivery leader committed to continuous investment in video quality enhancements. The company is in the forefront of standards development through involvement in a number of organizations, industry committees and research groups. In addition to actively investing in VVC, EVC, AV1, MPEG-2, H.264 and HEVC, ATEME has been working with ATSC groups, […]
Soundbite: “This is the next step”
“This is the next step, beyond experiments and trials, as broadcasters move forward with actual commercial deployments of NEXTGEN TV in 2020.” – Nexstar CTO Brett Jenkins, commenting on the plans for ATSC 3.0 in Portland, OR
Meredith, Nexstar Plan ATSC 3.0 Rollout in Portland
(Courtesy of TV Technology) PORTLAND, Ore.—ATSC 3.0 is on its way to Portland, Ore., as Meredith Corporation and Nexstar Media Group have announced their plans to launch the city’s first NextGen TV services. Meredith and Nexstar, along with local TV station owners Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tegna, have filed applications with the FCC for the […]
President’s Memo: Roadmap to the Future
As NEXTGEN TV powered by ATSC 3.0 launches across the United States this year, ATSC is working on two important roadmap projects with significant opportunities for member involvement. One is to determine the expected rollout plan for various ATSC 3.0 features over the coming years in the U.S., and the other is to determine how […]
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