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TV, Radio Broadcasters: Now’s The Time To Register Your C-Band Downlin...

August 16, 2018

Broadcasters must protect their C-band satellite downlink sites from future interference and push back against plans that would completely rearrange the way the FCC allows C-band satellite channels t...

Marc Hand: 3.0 To Enable New Services For Public TV

August 13, 2018

WESTMORE, Vt. — WKAR, Michigan State University’s public television station, was granted an experimental license from the FCC to begin ATSC 3.0 transmission. The station will join a small, but growin...

GatesAir Connect Webinar: Antennas and Transmission

August 9, 2018

Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM EST Presenter: Steven Rossiter, TV Systems Applications Engineer This webinar from GatesAir’s Steve Rossiter delivers a crash course on all you need to know about...

The Next Major Broadcast Standard: ATSC 3.0 Explained

August 7, 2018

You might not have heard about it much yet, but in the coming years, you’re sure to hear the term ATSC 3.0 a lot, and with good reason: It could be a massive overhaul for antenna-based TV, AKA over-t...

FCC grants WKAR an experimental license to explore future of TV

August 7, 2018

Michigan State University and WKAR have received a license from the Federal Communications Commission to launch an experimental next generation TV broadcasting station to focus on digital advancement...

Repack Antennas Get Quick-Shipped To Puerto Rico

July 31, 2018

Nearly one year since Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, many TV stations remain dark due to widespread destruction of the country’s infrastructure and power grid. To help broadcaste...

Exit Interview: Rich Chernock Gives Parting Thoughts On Next-Gen TV

July 31, 2018

One of the final official duties of newly retired Dr. Rich Chernock, former chief science officer at Triveni Digital and former chair of ATSC’s Technical Group 3, was to travel to Columbus, Ohio, in ...

As Cord Cutting Grows, Comcast & AT&T Are Losing More Than 8...

July 30, 2018

Now is a bad time to own a pay-TV service like Comcast or DIRECTV. This week both AT&T and Comcast reported their second quarter 2018 numbers. The services lost a combined 740,000 traditional pay...

Comments Dates Set on FCC Rulemaking to Explore Reform of Children’s T...

July 30, 2018

The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Children’s Television has been published in the Federal Register, setting the dates for comments on the questions that the FCC asks about changing the rules...

Falcone: LPTV + 3.0 + OTT = Big Opportunity

July 25, 2018

Does the already crowded media ecosystem need a “broadcast technology platform” with a near national footprint that can provide advanced TV services to the growing ranks of cord-cutters? High-risk, h...