Someone You Should Know: Sung-Ik Park, ETRI

Posted on July 24, 2017 in ATSC News

Project leader, father and explorer Sung-Ik Park, principal researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Institute, is the project leader in the terrestrial digital TV department of ETRI in South Korea. Building on his 15 years of ATSC 1.0 transmitter/receiver implementation field verification work, he has been heavily involved in various aspects of ATSC 3.0 development. […]

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NEXT GEN TV RAP: 25 ATSC 3.0 Things

Posted on July 24, 2017 in ATSC News

TV Technology recently held a “25 More Things to Know About ATSC 3.0” webinar, reproduced here in rap lyrics.

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July-August Events Calendar

Posted on July 24, 2017 in ATSC News

The Dog Days of Summer Things aren’t slowing down at the ATSC during the lazy, hazy days of summer. Important TG3 Technology Group and various specialist and ad hoc group meetings in July and August will help bring the last remaining pieces of the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards across the finish line. The busy […]

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SOUNDBITE: Build it and they will come

Posted on July 24, 2017 in ATSC News

“If we build the [ATSC 3.0] infrastructure, the ideas will come. There are multiple uses and multiple profit-making opportunities that we’ll investigate, but the market will really tell us what those are.”                                   – Perry Sook, Nexstar Chief Executive

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And Now a Word from Our Sponsors

Posted on July 24, 2017 in ATSC News

Triveni Digital As a leading provider of products for program guide and metadata management, data broadcasting, and service quality assurance to broadcasters, 2017 ATSC sponsor Triveni Digital stays at the forefront of evolving technologies and industry standards. The company has devoted significant resources to the development of the next-generation broadcast ecosystem, including the ATSC 3.0 […]

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PRESIDENT’S MEMO: Completing the Skyscraper

Posted on June 1, 2017 in ATSC News

Over the past six months, ATSC watchers have seen our infographic depiction of the 23 floors of the skyscraper – representing the key building blocks of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast standard – make great progress. As we usher in summer, I am pleased to report that the ATSC 3.0 skyscraper (what I like to think of as Next Gen TV built from the ground up) is nearing completion.

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Next Gen TV Conference Highlights

Posted on June 1, 2017 in ATSC News

More than 200 people came to Washington to learn the latest on the ATSC 3.0 standard at the mid-May “Next Gen TV Conference: Powered by ATSC 3.0.” Attendees on hand came from South Korea, England, India, Spain, France, Canada, and the U.S.

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SOUNDBITE

Posted on June 1, 2017 in ATSC News

“To quote one of my engineers, we learned more in a half-day working with ATSC 3.0 than in months of reading about it.”

– Pete Sockett, WRAL

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LECHNER AWARD: Pizzi Honored for Outstanding ATSC Contributions

Posted on June 1, 2017 in ATSC News

Skip Pizzi received the 2017 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, the ATSC’s highest technical honor. Pizzi, NAB’s VP of Technology Education and Outreach, chairs the Specialist Group on ATSC 3.0 System Requirements and Program Management, which is responsible for ATSC 3.0 use cases and scenarios that are the basis for the system requirements that enabled the development of Technical Standards and Recommended Practices that make up ATSC 3.0.

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CHAT ROOM: Consumers will love Next Gen TV

Posted on June 1, 2017 in ATSC News

In the Chat Room this month, THE STANDARD sat down with ATSC Board member Anne Schelle, Executive Director of Pearl TV, the business group representing nine of the largest broadcasting companies with more than 220 network-affiliated TV stations. She moderated a panel at the 2017 Next Gen TV Conference on consumer research about features and benefits of ATSC 3.0.

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