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PBS Reno and Sinclair Inc. Launch KNPB-VC, ATSC 3.0 Virtual Channel 5-11 Today we announced the launch of KNPB-VC, a new virtual ATSC 3.0 channel, broadcasting on virtual channel 5-11. This innovative launch brings PBS Reno’s high-quality programming into the NEXTGEN television space, offering viewers a state-of-the-art experience, including enhanced picture quality with Advanced HDR by Technicolor. The programming on KNPB-VC mirrors that of PBS Reno’s main channel 5-1, while providing enhanced accessibility for those with NEXTGEN-enabled televisions. Virtual ATSC 3.0 channels are transmissions that provide programming directly over-the-air to smart TVs using the NEXTGEN broadcast data channel capacity of a host broadcaster. Viewers with NEXTGEN TVs can view and select KNPB-VC in their programming guide and access the channel seamlessly over the internet. https://lnkd.in/eQDr9nm6

Great job Matthew Goldman!

Sinclair Inc.’s Chris Ripley Lays Out ATSC 3.0 Opportunities TV Tech's Phil Kurz spoke with Sinclair president and CEO Chris Ripley to discuss #ATSC 3.0, touching on everything from what new leadership at the Federal Communications Commission might mean for an ATSC 1.0 sunset, to the streaming glitches Netflix experienced during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight and the solution 3.0 offers.

Sinclair Inc., and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration of technology and standards development in wireless broadcast services over next generation telecom and broadcast networks. Research efforts will focus on enhancements to the international ATSC 3.0 wireless broadcast standard for a variety of mobile, television and other fixed applications. New capabilities of ATSC 3.0 will advance Broadcast-to-Everything (B2X) use cases to provide dynamic traffic management and fast interworking with 5G networks, efficient spectrum utilization, low-latency datacasting, edge content distribution and improved battery life for smartphones, featurephones, wearables and IoT devices. IIT Bombay will also contribute directly to the B2X release standardization work under way as a member of ATSC. https://lnkd.in/evh4Z4M9

We are thrilled to announce Matthew Goldman has been named Vice President, Strategic and Technical Initiatives. In this newly created position, Matthew will lead the implementation, expansion, and support of advanced operational technologies, including High Dynamic Range Video (HDR). Goldman will also manage conformance testing and develop operational handoff processes for #ATSC 3.0 #NextGen Broadcasting. Goldman joined Sinclair in 2021 and was most recently Senior Director, Media Engineering and Architecture. In his new role, he will report to Mark Aitken, SVP, Advanced Technology, Sinclair and President, ONE Media Technologies. https://lnkd.in/eMtmz3Yq

Sinclair and Nebraska Public Media Announce Launch of First Station Offering Free Virtual Channel Hosting in ATSC 3.0 Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI), and Nebraska Public Media announced the launch of the first free Broadcast-Enabled Streaming TV (“BEST”) Channel in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska Public Media’s PBS and local programming is now hosted on KPTM FOX 42, Sinclair’s station in Omaha, as a free, virtual channel in addition to its other programming offerings. Sinclair and America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) previously announced that Sinclair would provide carriage of APTS member stations for free in markets where Sinclair has deployed NEXTGEN Broadcast Service (ATSC 3.0) and a public television station has not. The launch in Omaha is the first under this unique, forward-looking arrangement. Nebraska Public Media’s virtual channel delivers programming in high dynamic range (Advanced HDR by Technicolor), significantly enhancing video quality for viewers.

India-US Partnership, Led by Saankhya Labs and Sinclair, Announces the Development of Low Cost Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) Devices for Consumer Trials in India We're thrilled to announce our collaboration with Saankhya Labs Pvt. Ltd. and Free Stream Technologies to design and launch a variety of value-for-money mobile phones with augmented Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcast capability. https://lnkd.in/ezeeMS9E via Phil Kurz Press release: https://lnkd.in/epFeF-3x

This was a great webinar! Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and their IT8 (Automotive Implementation Team) brought a real sense of what was happening. Mark Barrington , Dan Teeter , Chip Goetzinger and Roger C. Lanctot rounded all the bases to address the connectivity issues in the automotive sector, and an open invite to join the IT8 activity (https://lnkd.in/eeHCGBe2) #connectedcar #automotive #atsc3 #sinclair #onemedia The ATSC3ADVOCATE site will soon have the webinar, hang tight and give us a another day :-) Madeleine Noland , let's keep the momentum going! PS - Deborah McAdams back in the byline!!!

https://lnkd.in/ehCAe4M2 Hooray! It is now public! Brazil intends to adopt ATSC 3.0 for its over-the-air physical layer!!! #atsc3 #brazil #sbtvd Much thanks to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) team (the Broadcast Standards Association), to the leadership of Madeleine Noland, the team behind Skip Pizzi, the heroic work of Sung-Ik Park and the folks at ETRI and the many and countless others! To my friends at Globo .and Globo..(Raymundo Barros , Ana Eliza Faria e Silva and so many others) , SET Brasil (Olimpio Franco and others), so many friends we have your back! Thanks to my many good friends, Josemar Cruz , Paulo Henrique Castro , Fernando Bittencourt to name just a few...I am so happy and proud of Brazil arriving at the right decision. SBTVD Forum technology recommendations for TV 3.0 Considering the results of the TV 3.0 Project Phase 3 complementary tests, as well as market and intellectual property aspects of the candidate technologies, the SBTVD Forum forwarded its recommendations on the selection of candidate technologies to the Brazilian Ministry of Communications. The following recommendations were adopted for the continuation of the TV 3.0 Project: Over-the-air Physical Layer – To adopt ATSC 3.0 technology for the physical layer of TV 3.0, combining MIMO and LDM tools to maximize spectral and energy efficiency, and with the TxID tool to enable geographical segmentation of content and emergency alerts.

THIS THURSDAY (7/25) join the ATSC Automotive Implementation Team (IT8) webinar, “Automotive OTA Software and Services Using the ATSC 3.0 Wireless Network" Register: https://lnkd.in/eRc4dQ_J. IT8 enables collaboration between automotive and broadcast organizations to enhance data delivery to vehicles using ATSC 3.0 spectrum. This panel brings together key voices from the broadcast and automotive worlds to discuss the current state of play. Topics will include connected car, state of ATSC 3.0 deployment in vehicles, the need for industry scale, and collaboration between all parties. At the conclusion of this event, IT8 Chair Mark Barrington will briefly explain the role of IT8, its importance, and how to join in its collaborative work. The complimentary one hour webinar will be held on Thursday, July 25th at 11am EDT. Please register here: https://lnkd.in/eRc4dQ_J #atsc hashtag #automotive hashtag #implentation hashtag #atsc3 hashtag #ota hashtag #datadelivery