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 […]
AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS UNDERSCORE FLEXIBILITY OF NEXT GEN BROADCASTING POWERED BY ATSC 3.0
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2020 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee has been exploring automotive use cases for the ATSC 3.0 standard, applications that include robust broadcast updates for telematics and navigation, sensors for autonomous vehicles, and in-car infotainment systems, according to a new ATSC planning team report. “Next-generation broadcasting powered by ATSC 3.0 paves the […]
Someone You Should Know: Glenn Reitmeier
Most people in the industry would consider it a major achievement to be involved in the creation of television standards once. Glenn Reitmeier, now in an industry consulting role, has been involved not once, but twice. Reitmeier’s career started when he joined RCA Sarnoff Labs in 1977 and spent the next 25 years there doing […]
20 NAB Express Presentations Highlight Features, Plans for ATSC 3.0
From the opening session of the virtual Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference originally planned for the Las Vegas NAB Show, to sessions about targeted advertising, antenna design, emergency alerting, consumer receivers, distribution links, and new revenue opportunities created with NEXTGEN TV, some 20 different papers, sessions, and panel discussions from the NAB SHOW EXPRESS are […]
BROADCASTERS MARK BEGINNING OF NEXTGEN TV ERA IN LAS VEGAS WITH LAUNCH OF ATSC 3.0 SERVICE, AS INDUSTRY “PROGRESS REPORT” SHOWS GROWING MOMENTUM FOR NEW TELEVISION TECHNOLOGY
Update from 50-plus ATSC members shows momentum, demonstrates strong interest in new service WASHINGTON, May 26, 2020 – Just as four broadcasters launch NEXTGEN TV service in the Las Vegas market, the Advanced Television Systems Committee is showcasing more than 80 NEXTGEN TV product and technology highlights in a new “Spring 2020 Progress Report” on its […]
FCC Proposes Relaxing Ownership Rules for Broadcasters to Deliver Internet Services
Reprinted from TV Technology By Michael Balderston Commission to vote in June on using ATSC 3.0 for new service WASHINGTON—FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has revealed a plan to loosen media ownership rules to allow broadcasters to provide “Broadcast Internet” services via ATSC 3.0 (aka “NextGen TV”). The new standard, currently being deployed nationwide by broadcasters, combines […]
ATSC AWARDS ETRI’S LEE WITH HIGHEST TECHNICAL HONOR, BESTOWS LEADERSHIP MEDAL TO PHOENIX MODEL MARKET PARTNERS
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2020 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee today awarded its highest technical honor, the 2020 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, to Dr. Jae-Young Lee of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. ATSC also presented the Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal to the key partners of the Phoenix Model Market program, […]
“Next Gen TV” Could Offer Expanded Local Services During COVID-19
Reprinted from The Hollywood Reporter Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of broadcast stakeholders reported that they are proceeding to implement the U.S.’ voluntary “Next Gen TV” broadcast transmission system, while identifying what could be potential opportunities for local broadcasters to use the new services to support their communities during the crisis. The remote panel […]
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