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On November 7, ATSC published a Recommended Practice on Delivery of ATSC 3.0 Services for Redistribution (Document A/371), the culmination of a two-year effort by ATSC’s TG3-S37 Specialist Group on Conversion and Redistribution of ATSC 3.0 Signals (Steve Calzone, Shift2Stream, chair, and Jeff Hamilton, representing NCTA, vice-chair). The 47-page document provides a detailed analysis and technical approach for carrying ATSC 3.0 services on cable and other Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs).

NBC is offering advanced audio and video formats, including HDR, in select markets.  In Washington, D.C., HDR (in the form of Dolby Vision) and advanced immersive audio (in the form of Dolby Atmos) were added to the NBC O&O station WRC on the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse hosted by WHUT just days before the Olympics Opening Ceremonies.

In the Broadcast Olympics, Brazil takes the Gold Medal with ATSC 3.0’s Physical Layer The “About” section of the ATSC home page describes ATSC as “an international (emphasis added), non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for [...]

NAB recently updated its list of Transmitter ID (TxID) codes for television stations. NAB maintains a list of assigned TxID codes for all television stations at TxID.nabpilot.org. For a memory jog on what a TxID [...]

A previous blog in this series noted that ATSC was engaged in the process of adapting the ATSC-1 DTV standard documentation so that it was compliant with MPEG-4 (also known as AVC) implementations that are known to work in the marketplace with legacy receivers. That work was completed with the approval of A/53 Part3: 2013 Amendment No. 1 “AVC Signal Transport” on February 15, 2023.

Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series showed how channel sharing can be used to make RF channels available for ATSC 3.0 services and how MPEG-4 compression can assist in that goal. [...]

In Part 1 of this series, the spectrum efficiency and advantages of using MPEG-4 compression for DTV transmission were explored in the context of the transition to ATSC 3.0 broadcasting. Using the guidelines from [...]

Television broadcast service based on ATSC 3.0 technology, or NEXTGEN TV, is better than ATSC-1 in virtually all respects. But the ATSC 3.0 transition is challenging because, unlike the original DTV transition, broadcasters do [...]

Those seeking the latest update on the progress of NEXTGEN TV broadcasting (also known as ATSC 3.0) need look no further than the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System website, where comments were filed last [...]

On April 20, 2022, NAB PILOT launched TXID.NABPILOT.org, a webpage for assigning Transmitter Identification codes (TxIDs) for ATSC 3.0 transmitters. Here are some questions and answers concerning all things TxID. What is a TxID? The [...]