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After the challenges of 2020, we're finding excitement as we turn toward the beginning of a new year that offers the chance to look back but, more importantly, look forward to new opportunities. We wanted [...]

Consultant Shelly Palmer’s recent piece, "TV: The Platform vs. The Artform," is a cautionary tale. Making the case that the TV "platform," meaning traditional broadcast television stations and networks (along with cable networks), "has damaged [...]

During this pandemic we don’t typically like to hear of a surge. But as it relates to NextGen TV the surge is a good thing. It means new and improved broadcast television offerings in more and more [...]

Words matter (in more ways than one) when talking about or talking to smart speakers. Simply calling these devices that sit on our desks and counters a “speaker” evokes the idea of a one-way engagement [...]

For those immersed in new technology for broadcasting, ATSC 3.0 and Next Generation TV are nothing new, as we’ve been working with the associated technological standards, equipment development and policy issues for over a decade. [...]

Traditionally, broadcasting has centered around the idea of a single transmitter serving a wide coverage area. In the 100 years since the first commercial radio broadcast, this system has worked exceedingly well to provide news, [...]

The evolution of radio receivers in cars over the last 25 years has been quite remarkable and beneficial for broadcasters, listeners and automakers. With the advent of hybrid (over-the-air plus internet) radio, it’s more important [...]

Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cited a station for broadcasting a skit that contained the Emergency Alert System (EAS) codes (the data burst sometime referred to as the “duck squawk”) and the two-tone attention [...]

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the latest published video codec standard, and it has achieved the highest level of video compression to date.  VVC has been drafted by a joint collaborative team of ITU-T and [...]

Given that the Next Gen TV platform provides broadcasters with so many new capabilities, we can anticipate that some of the more advanced broadcast services will be more complex than what is being deployed during [...]