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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).

Asymmetric digital sidebands are a powerful tool now available to FM-band digital radio broadcasters. The power in one sideband is reduced to protect a nearby first-adjacent channel signal and the power in the other sideband is set to maximize digital coverage. The spectrum plot below illustrates asymmetric sidebands, showing an FM-band digital radio signal (including the analog simulcast of the main channel audio) where the upper digital sideband is at a reduced power level compared to the lower digital sideband.

Radio and TV broadcast engineers planning to attend this year’s NAB Show New York on October 22-23, 2025, should add the following exhibit floor technical sessions to their Show calendars.  These sessions, organized by NAB’s Technology department in conjunction with the New York chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), are available to all attendees

The broadcast industry is at a pivotal moment driven by technological convergence and evolving content platforms. Two educational institutions are stepping up with innovative programs tailored to the needs of the future. This fall, Wake Tech Community College (WTCC) and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh are debuting robust new pathways to prepare the next generation of broadcast engineers.

From the packed technical sessions at the Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEIT) to a hands-on demo right on the NAB Show floor, BPS™ was the buzzword in Las Vegas. If you didn’t hear about it then, now’s your chance to catch up.

In today’s media landscape, teams face growing pressure to create, adapt and deliver content faster, often with fewer resources. Yet many are still stuck with fragmented tools, manual processes and disconnected data that limit their agility. Flomenco was built to change that. As a 2025 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge winner, Flomenco was proud to introduce an expansion of our product into an AI-powered media automation platform that simplifies operations, accelerates workflows and helps teams get more value from their media.

Broadcast infrastructures have gone IP-first: cameras plug into network switches, video routers run in software and production engines live on Ethernet. Yet audio capture still relies on analog cables, patch bays and rack gear. The traditional chain (mic → cable → preamp → A/D → network interface) delivers stereo in a handful of locations today, but it cannot scale to immersive formats or hard-to-reach placements without rewiring every time you add channels or change layouts. Viewers now take surround sound for granted - Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats are built into modern TVs, soundbars and headsets. Flat stereo feels outdated, and legacy workflows simply cannot keep pace.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and latakoo won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2025 NAB Show. SwRI won for their demonstration of “BEAMoCap: Biomechanical Evaluation and Animation Motion Capture” and latakoo won for their demonstration of "Generative Video Codec."

The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to independent consultant Alan Jurison and Xperi's Jeff Baird and Mike Raide for their paper, “Digital-Only Boosters for HD Radio Single Frequency Networks.”

The NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to Mohammad Ghasempour, a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria for the paper titled, “Two-Pass Encoding for Live Video Streaming.”