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The Apollo PublicTV Platform, which debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show this month, aims to help broadcasters experiment with the broadcast standard even before fully transitioning to the technology.
The center for pubmedia innovation is urging participants to “fail fast” with bold efforts to find new revenue sources.
“To leave public television stations … on the sidelines of the FirstNet infrastructure is to ignore a robust, reliable and ubiquitous partner whose public safety capabilities have proven effective in a variety of critical use cases,” APTS told the FCC.
Under a management agreement with Lehigh University, the PBS station will provide the region’s first local NPR News station.
Engineers at public TV stations in the Mountain West are still coping with wintry weather as they try to complete their pieces of the national conversion of translators to new channels.
The new public benefit corporation, an affiliate of the Public Media Ventures Group, promises to operate as a neutral partner in developing local single-frequency network systems with public and commercial broadcasters.
Station leaders are increasingly saying that the lack of qualified engineers in the system is “keeping them up at night.”
This year’s TechCon presented the first real-world ATSC 3.0 experiences from several early adopters.
Single-frequency networks will be an important part of the company’s work on the transition to the ATSC 3.0 digital TV system.
