NAB Says FCC Must Conduct Translator, LPTV Impact Study

The issue of the impact of the broadcast incentive auction on translators, which relay full-power TV station signals to hard-to-reach areas, is getting a lot of attention this week. Read the story on B&C –

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Your ATSC 3.0 roadmap starts with the audit. Step 1: audit the plant. Step 2: budget in three buckets. Step 3: pick a posture, then file.

Building Your ATSC 3.0 Transition Roadmap

October 27, 2026

Most LPTV transitions don’t fail on technology. They fail because nobody wrote down the order of operations. Here is the sequence: audit, budget, posture, paperwork, timeline.

Cybersecurity and the Emergency Alert System: New Rules, Real Deadlines

October 20, 2026

The FCC’s new EAS security rules took effect September 29. Here’s what they require, the EAS dates still ahead this fall, and a short list a one-engineer station can work through at close to zero cost.

Advanced Emergency Alerting: The Case for Broadcast-Controlled Warning

October 14, 2026

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.