UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: I was rambling on about the giant TV wars when the FCC today released the agenda for its regular open meeting, scheduled for Sept. 28, 2012. The news broke last night—though not in this little hamlet—that the commission intended to take up TV incentive auctions at the September meeting. [Read More…]
Cellular networks fail in exactly the conditions that generate emergencies, and a one-to-many broadcast transmitter does not. Here is how ATSC 3.0 alerting works, and why LPTV is built for it.
A live Las Vegas network carried 5G Broadcast inside ATSC 3.0, and the station never stopped running the platform. Why that matters for spectrum, distribution and revenue.
There are now two petitions at the FCC asking that LPTV stations be allowed to transmit a cellular standard instead of a broadcast one, and
