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Abernethy: Stations Need To Get With 3.0
January 23, 2019 - Fox stations chief Jack Abernethy used NATPE to stress the importance of the new tech. Its rollout and the services it enables, he said, is being held back by broadcasters’ short-term thinking and their inability to work with each other and to grasp...
FOX Talk At NATPE: ATSC 3.0’s Untapped Opportunities
January 34, 2019 - The next gen broadcast TV standard, ATSC 3.0, finally got some attention from NATPE Miami participants on the second day of this three-day event that’s focused more on OTT and content ownership than anything else. The solid endorsement of ATSC 3.0...
New Consumer Study Finds Strong Appeal for Features of ATSC 3.0 Next-Gen Television
January 23, 2019 - New research from the Phoenix deployment of Next-Gen Television shows that the new service delivering live, over-the-air TV could increase broadcast TV viewing and drive sales of new television receivers. Read More...
Sinclair Broadcast’s ATSC 3.0 chipset may change the game for mobile TV
January 21, 2019 - Chipsets don’t generally take center stage at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), let alone those dedicated to broadcast TV. But new silicon offering the first mobile-ready implementation of the ATSC 3.0 standard got a grand unveiling. The...
Broadcasters & 5G: We’re Part Of The Solution
January 21, 2019 - ONE Media’s Jerald Fritz: “Using the great big IP data pipe that is a Next Gen TV channel, broadcasters will have the flexibility to provide traditional linear TV entertainment and informational programming to both fixed and mobile devices. Plus,...
Searching for ATSC 3.0 at CES 2019
Las Vegas, NV - January 17, 2019 - As Yogi Berra might have observed about this year’s CES, “It was déjà vu all over again,” (at least with regard to the next-gen TV sets being displayed by both large and small manufacturers.) Read More...
SKT-Harman-Sinclair NextGen-5G
January 30, 2019 -Here is one view of the future of a converged (Broadcast "NextGen"/Broadband "5G") automotive world. This is just some of the thinking that is going on wrt the Harman/SKT/Sinclair JV discussions. Read More...
‘TRANSFORMATIVE OPPORTUNITIES’: Public Media Embraces ATSC 3.0
January 10, 2019 - In his opening keynote address to a packed house at the 2018 Public Media Summit, Pat Butler, President and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations, painted a compelling picture of the “transformative opportunities” ahead for public media with...
Sinclair: Future Of 3.0 May Be On The Road
January 10, 2019 - LAS VEGAS, NV - Sinclair and its ONE Media innovations group announced key deals with Harmon and Korea’s SK Telecom at CES this week to jointly develop and commercialize broadcasting-based automotive technology using the ATSC 3.0 standard. “The...
CHAT ROOM: Spectrum of Insights
January 10, 2019 - In the Chat Room this month, we sat down with John Hane, President of the Spectrum Consortium, aka “Spectrum Co.” His self-described mission for Spectrum Co is to “promote spectrum utilization, innovation and monetization by advancing the adoption...