ATBA Urges FCC to Implement Next Gen TV, Reconsider Simulcast Mandate
ATBA has announced its support in favor of the FCC allowing television broadcasters to use ATSC 3.0 following the Commission’s tentative conclusion in a document released May 9, 2017. “The […]
ATSC 3.0 Local Simulcasting Approach Debated
WASHINGTON—Local simulcasting is at the core of the next-gen broadcasting proposal pending at the Federal Communications Commission. The idea is, a TV station that fires up ATSC 3.0 continues to […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group Buys FOX40’s Parent Company Tribune Media for $3.9 Billion
CHICAGO – The company that owns and operates FOX40 has just been acquired by America’s biggest owner of local TV stations in a multi-billion dollar deal. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. agreed […]
Verizon’s Shopping List Just Shrank
By Tara Lachapelle Remember Gadfly’s media and wireless Merger Wheel? Well, its time to give it another spin because Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc. just switched things up. The two […]
2017 ATBA LPTV Awards
Las Vegas NV – (April 25, 2017) The 3rd Annual LPTV/Translator Awards were given out at the Annual ATBA LPTV Awards and Reception at the Las Vegas Westgate this past […]
Worst quarter for paid TV subscriptions points to a cord cutting future
A report by MoffettNathanson found that the pay cable industry lost 762,000 subscribers in Q1 2017, the worst drop ever. To compare last year’s Q1 saw a mere 141,000 subscribers […]
CFOs At NAB: Shopping For ATSC 3.0, OTT
By Kathy Haley From TVNewsCheck Media technology companies hoping to score sales from TV station groups in the coming years will find themselves spending time not just with engineers, but […]
FCC Releases New TVStudy Repack Software
By John Eggerton The FCC has released new TVStudy software it and stations are using to calculate interference and coverage areas in the repack of TV stations after the […]
ATSC 3.0 Achieves Mainstream Status At NAB
By Phil Kurz From TVNewsCheck The 2017 NAB Show may be looked back upon in the future as the moment when ATSC 3.0 next-generation TV standard went mainstream in the […]
Big money from FCC auction means end of some TV stations
BY ROB OWEN AND MARIA SCIULLO From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For some television stations, there was money — a great deal of it — in the air. Licensed airwaves, commonly known […]