WNET Group Announces Plans to Bring NextGen TV to New York City

[stationless listener]

This article is from February but just learned about this now.

WNET Group Announces Plans to Bring NextGen TV to New York City

WNET Groups' WLIW21 will serve as the host station for three PBS stations

www.tvtechnology.com

New York City Public Broadcaster WNET has revealed its plans to launch ATSC 3.0 (aka NextGen TV) in New York City, the largest television market in the United States, with approximately 7.45 million TV households. The WNET Group's WLIW21 will serve as the host station for ATSC 3.0 broadcasts for the three major PBS member stations in the New York metropolitan area: THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJ PBS.

Another article from today gives some further details about the work being done at WTC and mentions WMBC and their intention of having their own ATSC 3.0 signal.

https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/one-world-trade-center-ready-for-nextgen-tv

 

[Marcos_C]

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[fybush]

Here's a fairly detailed article I wrote in February.

WNET Group unveils plan to launch New York City’s first ATSC 3.0 service - Current

“As viewers and set manufacturers and datacasting companies see this moving into the largest television market in the country ... that’s going to make people pay more attention to the NextGen transition,” said Bob Feinberg, VP of business development.

current.org

 

[Marcos_C]

Here's a fairly detailed article I wrote in February.

WNET Group unveils plan to launch New York City’s first ATSC 3.0 service - Current

“As viewers and set manufacturers and datacasting companies see this moving into the largest television market in the country ... that’s going to make people pay more attention to the NextGen transition,” said Bob Feinberg, VP of business development.

current.org

Thanks for the article. This morning, I tried unsuccessfully to provide a link to another article about this development since the original poster's links did not work for me. I was not aware of NextGenTV until today. Since I get TV reception from a source other than a TV antenna, namely cable TV, I do not need to worry about it.

 

[NYCsporty]

Easy for it to be overlooked here, being this is mainly in regards to the NYC market, but with NJ PBS in the fold, this might also mean NextGen TV being introduced in the Philadelphia market with 2 stations in it (WNJT Trenton & WNJS Camden).