ATSC 3.0 Lighthouse scenario

In a modern broadcast and broadband video delivery environment, viewers expect increasingly better quality and availability. NEXTGEN TV, powered by ATSC 3.0, offers to improve the image quality with UHD resolution, brings immersive audio, and opens new business models based on the convergence between broadcast and broadband.

American TV stations interested in moving forward with the transition to NEXTGEN TV are facing a lack of new spectrum availability. This lead broadcasters to cooperate with one another, and “Lighthouse” channel-sharing scenarios are designed to leverage on existing transmitting infrastructures in order to manage the simulcast between legacy ATSC 1.0 services and NEXTGEN TV ATSC 3.0 broadcasting.

Learn about the challenges faced by broadcast stations in a “Lighthouse” scenario and how test & monitoring is vital for stations both during the transition and once the ATSC 3.0 signal is on-air.