Boston’s 1st NextGen TV Station Goes Live From WCRN-LD TV
Over-the-air TV broadcast users in the Boston, MA market area just got the region’s first live NextGen TV/ATSC 3.0 broadcast station in Tyche Media’s WCRN-LD TV, channel 31. WCRN, which is a Low Power TV (LPTV) station, is using the new ATSC 3.0 digital TV…
Prime Day Deals Coming To Select Antennas Direct, Mohu OTA TV Antennas, July 10-16
Amazon Prime Day will help shoppers save not only on an antenna that is right for you market conditions, but go on saving on local station fees from pay-TV operators or live Over-the-top streaming services. We’ve listed below a few coupon deals that will be…
PBS Broadcaster To Bring NextGen TV Channels To NYC Marketplace
The Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) The WNET Group, serving the Tri-State New York City area, announced Wednesday its plans to launch NextGen TV ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) services for the No. 1 U.S. market. The WNET Group is the largest PBS operation, with multiple channels…
Survey: OTA TV Antennas Gaining In Use, Awareness
As the rollout of the country’s newest over-the-air broadcast TV platform continues to gain momentum, more and more U.S. TV watchers are re-kindling their interest in added antennas. A recently released survey from Horowitz Research, reveals that as broadcasters around the country begin to throw…
Nielsen: U.S. TV Homes Top 120.6 Million For 2019-20
There are 120.6 million TV households in the United States for the upcoming 2019-2020 season, according to final estimates recently released by media measurement firm Nielsen. The firm’s National Television Household Universe Estimates indicated a small bump up in the number of homes with televisions…
Next-Gen TV Launch Markets Announced For 2020 Startup
Big news surfaced from this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention as a coalition of commercial and public broadcasting stations announced plans to begin deployment of the first over-the-air digital TV broadcasts using the new ATSC 3.0 (called Next-Gen TV) standard in the 40…
NHK To Begin 1st 8K Satellite Broadcast Channel, Dec. 1
Those wondering when we might expect to get real Ultra HD 8K content to go with the new 8K televisions coming to market this year and next, got some insight this week from Japan’s NHK broadcasting company, which formally announced plans to launch the world’s…
5 Stations Join ATSC 3.0 Phoenix Test Project
The next generation of over-the-air TV broadcasting continues its slow transition to the ATSC 3.0 standard with five stations joining the experimental Phoenix Model Market project. The FCC this week announced that it has granted requests from five commercial and public U.S. TV broadcasters in…
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