GREENVILLE, S.C.—Five stations serving the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market have launched NextGen TV (a.okay.a. ATSC 3.0) broadcasts, boosting the whole launches within the U.S. to practically 50 markets, with 29 of the highest 40 now providing the brand new digital broadcast know-how. The June 2 launch contains WLOS (ABC), WSPA-TV (CBS), WHNS (FOX), WYFF (NBC) and WMYA-TV (MyNet). Affiliates of all of the “Big 4” networks and stations owned by Sinclair, Nexstar, Hearst, Gray and Cunningham participated within the launch. As a part of the launch WMYA-TV, which is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation and covers the South Carolina parts of the tv market, has transformed to ATSC 3.0 transmissions. WMYA-TV will broadcast its personal programming, in addition to the programming of the opposite taking part stations, in NextGen TV format. All programming of all taking part stations will proceed to be out there within the present DTV format, which might be acquired on all fashionable tv units. BitPath, which is creating new information broadcasting companies, led the planning course of and coordinated efforts throughout the 5 tv stations. TV Tech has been monitoring all of the launches of NextGen TV broadcasts within the U.S. Our full up to date listing of markets with ATSC 3.0 broadcasts is on the market right here (opens in new tab).
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