RICHMOND-PETERSBURG, Va.—All seven of Richmond-Petersburg’s full energy native tv stations have begun broadcasting with NextGen TV a.okay.a. ATSC 3.0 alerts. The April 11 launch contains WRIC-TV (Nexstar-owned ABC affiliate), WTVR-TV (Scripps-owned CBS affiliate), WWBT (Gray Television-owned NBC affiliate), WRLH-TV (Sinclair-owned Fox affiliate), WCVE-TV and WCVW (VPM Media Corporation-owned PBS), and WUPV (Gray Television-owned CW affiliate). For the launch, WUPV, owned by Gray Television, and WCVW, owned by VPM Media Corporation, have transformed to ATSC 3.0 transmissions. Those stations will broadcast their very own programming, in addition to the programming of the opposite taking part stations, in NextGen TV format. All the programming of every taking part station will proceed to be obtainable within the current DTV format, which all trendy tv units can obtain. BitPath, which is creating new information broadcasting providers, led the planning course of and coordinated efforts throughout the seven tv stations. This newest deployment marks the forty ninth market to launch ATSC 3.0 within the U.S. Approximately 45% of U.S. TV households are inside vary of receiving ATSC 3.0 with that proportion anticipated to develop to 75% by the top of 2022, in accordance to the ATSC. CTA estimates that 3 million NextGen TV suitable TV units have been bought within the U.S. to this point and predicts gross sales of 4.5 million of the units to be bought by the top of 2022. TV Tech has been monitoring all of the markets which can be planning to or have launched ATSC 3.0 broadcasts right here (opens in new tab). For extra data, go to TV Tech’s NextGen TV web page (opens in new tab).
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