Ezra McMullen
Pearl TV Names Equipment Vendors for ATSC 3.0 Testbed in Phoenix
ATSC 3.0 group Pearl TV on Tuesday named five vendors that will supply broadcast equipment for the ATSC 3.0 market model in Phoenix.
Vendors that...
April Regulatory Dates For Broadcasters
April brings with it a milestone, notes Wilkinson Barker Knauer partner David Oxenford. It’s the end of the first quarter since all radio stations...
Pubcasting Orgs Decline to Support Request for ATSC 3.0 Must-Carry Rules
A public media consulting group’s proposal to require cable and satellite operators to carry public broadcasters’ ATSC 3.0 signals has drawn opposition from the...
2018 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation
Statutory and Regulatory Requirements
As a result of the Children’s Television Act of 1990 (“Act”) and the FCC rules adopted under the Act, full power...
2018 NAB Show Marks Next Gen TV’s Arrival
LAS VEGAS—The world’s newest digital television delivery standard, ATSC 3.0, has now come of age, getting the FCC’s official nod last November, and cheered...
FCC Takes Aim At Streamlining TV Satellite Reauthorizations
WASHINGTION—The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to streamline how TV satellite stations are reauthorized when they are assigned or transferred along...
The IoT Potential In Next Gen TV
In an era of cybersecurity intrusions, Next Gen TV developers are looking at how to secure the all-IP ATSC 3.0 signals, which are a...
ATSC 3.0 Transition Strategies
ARLINGTON, VA.—ATSC 3.0 plans are moving forward across the broadcast community, spurred by ATSC’s rapid action to complete the standards set, aggressive FCC rulemaking...
Broadcaster Access to Disaster Areas Becomes the Law of the Land
Yesterday’s enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (feel free to read it, it’s only 2232 pages) was welcomed by broadcasters. If you’ve been...
NAB Urges FCC To Protect In-Band Channels To Ease Next-Gen Transition
WASHINGTON—NAB has asked the FCC to reject requests from Microsoft and other TV white space device advocates to guarantee spectrum access rights for unlicensed...
