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NextGen TV: Five St. Louis Stations Launch ATSC 3.0 Broadcasts
ST. LOUIS Mo.–NextGen TV has come to St. Louis with stations owned by Sinclair, Meredith, Tegna and Nexstar launching NextGen TV signals on Sept. 23. Read More...
SK Telecom, Sinclair Advance 5G-based UHD Broadcasting
SEOUL—The South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom is working to develop cloud-based 5G-based convergence broadcasting services that use AI to upres HD content to 4K, UHD content, according to reporting in the Aju Business Daily. The work is being done as part of SKT's...
SKT to develop 5G-based UHD broadcasting network
SEOUL -- SK Telecom, a top mobile carrier in South Korea, teamed up with Cast.era, a joint venture between the mobile carrier and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, a major American broadcasting company, to develop 5G-based convergence broadcasting services through a...
Cincinnati Quintet Begins NEXTGEN TV Broadcasts
Television stations carrying the “Big Four” TV networks, along with the local MyNetwork TV affiliate, serving the Cincinnati DMA have fired up their ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV broadcasts. Read More...
Five Stations Launch NextGen TV In Cincinnati
Today’s launch in Cincinnati follows a decade of development and months of planning and preparation by the local stations. WSTR has converted to ATSC 3.0 transmissions. It will broadcast its own programming, as well as the programming of the other participating...
A Call for Computational Directional FM Antenna Pattern Modeling
Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Dielectric has literally changed how FM broadcast antenna manufactures validate directional pattern studies for new FM broadcast antennas. Read More...
NextGen’s Towering Promise
IMAGINE YOU OWN A NICE LITTLE RENTAL HOME. YOU HAVE SOME GOOD TENANTS, and the house brings in a tidy profit each year. The local government changed the zoning laws a few years ago, and now you can rent out separate rooms in the house. Good! More money. Read...
Interview with Parag Naik, Co-Founder and CEO, Saankhya Labs
Saankhya Labs, based in Bengaluru, are one of India’s leading indigenous telecom gear makers. Having been established in 2006, the company has since developed a powerful portfolio of telecom-grade network equipment. As India prepares for 5G, so have Saankhya; their...
ATSC Touts Gains On 3.0 Receivers, Datacasting
After taking a break last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, last week the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) once again gathered for its annual meeting and conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss the current state of the ATSC 3.0 standard and its future...
ATSC Annual Meeting Focuses on 3.0 Rollout
WASHINGTON—After a hiatus of more than a year, the Advanced Television System Committee resumed its long run of in-person meetings, with its Aug. 26 gathering of ATSC members, station and network personnel, consultants, vendors and others at the Ronald Reagan Building...