June 15, 2020 – The three networks involved are Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media Group and The E.W. Scripps Co, which in late May 2020 started transmitting services at their Las Vegas stations. Planning and coordination was led by BitPath, a broadcaster-owned cooperative formerly called Spectrum Company, which has been working with industry consortium Pearl TV to accelerate rollout of NextGen TV across the country. NextGen TV is just another name for ATSC 3.0 and so is confined to that North American digital terrestrial technology, rather than emerging TV services generally. It refers to the more advanced capabilities including support for 4K video and immersive audio.

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