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NAB Show 2023 comes to close, and we look forward to seeing you again at NAB Show New York October 25-26, 2023

Figuring out how to create engaging content while managing an ever-expanding library of assets is a common challenge for media-centric companies. Broadcasters are now grappling with a dispersed workforce along with the exponential growth of media assets, all while navigating unstable economies, tricky political environments, and other challenges.

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.

The annual CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) offers an amazing array of new technologies and 2023 was no exception. The new West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is where automotive [...]

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 [...]

We wanted to know what technologists in our industry are excited about and expect or hope to see in 2023, so we asked the NAB Technology staff and a few other luminaries in the industry if they had anything to share. They did. This compilation of predictions is our way to wrap up 2022 by looking forward to 2023.