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Five local broadcasters are transmitting ATSC 3.0 from WPFO’s stick

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If you watched FCC boss Ajit Pai's rushed repeal of net neutrality there really shouldn't be any question about where Pai's loyalties lie, and it certainly isn't with smaller companies, healthy competition, transparency, openness, innovation, or American consumers. The agency head repeatedly lied about the justifications for the repeal, casually using fabricated data to justify…

WABM, WDBB, WIAT, WBRC, WVTM, WTTO and WSES are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

Sinclair Broadcast Group said it has a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Mobis to develop and implement businesses that will use ATSC 3.0 broadcast signals to deliver services to automobiles, including new forms of in-car entertainment. Other services under consideration include geo-targeting, enhanced GPS, software updates and real-time emergency information.

A cluster of Sinclair Broadcast Group-operated or owned stations in Reno, Nevada, has debuted a new set that can be used across each of the station

When the $5.4 billion buyout of Tegna is OK’d, Standard General, with Soo Kim and Deb McDermott in charge, will be a new major force, second only to Nexstar on the TVNewsCheck-BIA Advisory Services annual list of the television station groups ranked by total revenue.

Five leading television stations serving the Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C./Asheville, N.C.-Anderson, S.C., market today began broadcasting with NextGen TV, also known as ATSC 3.0. Switching on the new transmission standard are Sinclair Broadcast Group’s WLOS (ABC), Nexstar Media’s WSPA (CBS), Gray Television’s WHNS (Fox), Hearst Television’s WYFF (NBC) and Cunningham Broadcasting’s WMYA (MNT). Today’s launch in Greenville […]

Leading television stations in Flint, Mich., today began broadcasting with NextGen TV, also known as ATSC 3.0. Switching on the new transmission standard are Allen Media Group’s WJRT (ABC), Gray Television’s WNEM (CBS), Sinclair Broadcast Group’s WSMH (Fox), Howard Stirk Holdings’ WEYI (NBC) and Cunningham Broadcasting’s WBSF (CW). Today’s launch in Flint follows a decade […]

WCIV, WCSC, WTAT, WCBD and WGWG are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.