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Q&A: Mark Aitken on ONE Media ATSC 3.0 SFN Trials
BALTIMORE — A consortium of broadcast technology developers reported doing field tests of ATSC 3.0 concepts over a single frequency network on the East Coast on Monday this week. (See “ONE Media Conducts ATSC 3.0 ‘Concept’ SFN Trials.”) One Media, Sinclair Broadcast...
Sinclair Demos HDR 4KTV Over ATSC 3.0 in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Sinclair Broadcast Group, along with subsidiary One Media and Technicolor, report they have successfully transmitted high-dynamic range 4KTV over the air using the proposed ATSC 3.0 standard and a prototype reception device. Sinclair made the announcement,...
ONE Media to Test Next-Gen Standard in Baltimore-DC Area
ARLINGTON, VA.— ONE Media, a joint investment between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Coherent Logix, tasked with developing a next generation broadcast platform, has been granted Special Temporary Authority by the Federal Communications Commission to operate an...
Samsung and ONE Media Drive ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard
ARLINGTON, VA. — The elevation of the “System Discovery and Signaling” to Candidate Standard (A/321 Part 1) is the result of months of joint work and collaboration led by Samsung and ONE Media in conjunction with other broadcasters, the two said in a joint...
ONE Media Field Tests Proposed ATSC 3.0 System
As ATSC works toward completing a candidate ATSC 3.0 standard, proponents have started demonstrating their ATSC 3.0 technologies. In late October LG Electronics and GatesAir demonstrated their FUTURECAST hardware in an overnight test using WKOW in Madison, Wisconsin....
ONE Media Reports Successful Demo of Next-Gen Transmission Platform
AUSTIN, TEXAS — In the first complete system test of its Next Generation Broadcast Platform, ONE Media announced today successful results in transmitting fixed, mobile and data services to set-top and tablet devices. Testing of signaling, bandwidth and robustness...
SMPTE 2014: Aitken—Broadcast Must Be More Than TV
HOLLYWOOD — The “broadcast” in Sinclair Broadcast Group is morphing into something more than TV. It has to, according to Mark Aitken, SBG’s vice president of Advanced Technology. Aitken delivered a keynote at this year’s SMPTE conference in the heart of Hollywood....
ONE Media And Next-Gen Broadcasting
BALTIMORE — From TV’s earliest days—when a small statue of Felix the Cat was spun on a record turntable during RCA’s first experimental broadcast from New York’s W2XBS—until today, when many viewers watch content on an HD screen that takes up half of a living room,...
Sinclair and Coherent Logix Partner to Create Next-Gen Broadcast System
A new company established as a joint investment between Coherent Logix and Sinclair Broadcast Group, ONE Media, LLC, announced last week that it would "create a Next Generation Broadcast Platform (NGBP) to deliver the ultimate user experience of wireless access to...