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CBS, ABC Step Up Mobile DTV Commitment
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 16, 2012, 5:35 PM EDT
CBS commits to simulcasting the Dyle mobile DTV service at four of its O&Os and has given permission to five affiliates to get on board. ABC has given the go-ahead to its affiliates in Dallas and Orlando. In addition, NBC has given its affiliate in Austin, Texas, permission to air its signal on the condition that it uses Dyle’s conditional access.
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KOMO, KSTP Eye 'Soft' Launch Of Mobile DTV
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 12, 2012, 3:10 PM EDT
Fisher Broadcasting’s KOMO Seattle and Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTP Minneapolis are set to debut test runs this spring of the Media 500 Alliance’s service to dongle-equipped iPhone and iPads.
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Nab 2012
NAB Show To Explore Future Of Mobile DTV
TVNewsCheck,
Mar 7, 2012, 1:09 PM EST
Super Session “Mobile Video and Mobile TV — Beyond YouTube,” slotted for April 16, will be keynoted by Qualcomm’s Peggy Johnson and the panel will include Sinclair’s Mark Aitken, Mobile Content Venture's Salil Dalvi, DVB’s Peter Siebert, Syncbak’s Jack Perry and MobiTV’s Cedric Fernandes.
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Granite To Test New Mobile Tech At KOFY
TVNewsCheck,
Feb 15, 2012, 10:32 AM EST
The broadcaster is partnering with Motive Television PLC to test Motive’s mobile service that would deliver signals to smartphones, tablets and other portable devices using a dongle with DTV receiver.
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Commentary
Broadcasters Must Wise Up About Smart TV
TVNewsCheck,
Feb 1, 2012, 8:15 AM EST
At last month's CES, three technologies showed significant progress: connected TV, smart TV and TV Everywhere. It's likely the three will converge. If so, they’ll arrive in one massive wave that could completely disrupt the way people watch TV — and threaten the way broadcasters do business. Broadcasters must figure out how to catch the wave.
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Sales Office by Abby Auerbach
Broadcast Television: Still No. 1 At CES
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 19, 2012, 1:49 PM EST
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show was overflowing with TV technology. For the creative, forward-thinking marketer there was an abundance of innovative ways to reach television-loving consumers, and TV broadcasters were squarely in that game with mobile DTV. With mobile DTV, marketers will have the opportunity to establish the deepest connection with consumers through the reach of television, their relationship with local news and entertainment, the interactivity of the Web and the intimacy of personal devices.
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CES 2012
Mobile DTV Demonstrates Progress At CES
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 12, 2012, 11:54 AM EST
Broadcaster-owned MCV and Mobile500 showed devices and apps that they say consumers may use to receive their broadcast-based mobile services later this year. But neither had a launch date or particulars about programming. Meanwhile, Syncbak demonstrated its authentication technology designed to give copyright holders comfort that the programming TV stations put on broadband networks will stay in their local markets.
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CES 2012
Belkin Debuts Its Dyle Mobile DTV Dongle
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 9, 2012, 5:47 AM EST
The unit, which attaches to the bottom of the Apple iPads and iPhones, contains a mobile DTV tuner and turns conventional earphones into a receive antenna that can pull in UHF and high-band VHF signals.
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CES 2012
Mobile DTV Set For Center Stage At CES
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 5, 2012, 12:07 PM EST
At next week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, broadcasters will show off the latest developments in mobile DTV, including the app that MetroPCS will be using to market MCV's Dyle-branded service and Mobile500's new external dongle receivers that plug into iPhones and iPads and feature a virtual DVR. Other attractions for broadcasters at the exhibition will be smart connected TVs, OTT developments, voice-driven devices, tablets and ultrabooks.
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Mobile DTV Takes A Step Closer To Reality
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 4, 2012, 9:01 AM EST
Later this year, MetroPCS will offer a new Samsung smartphone with a mobile DTV tuner chip and telescoping antenna. Subscribers will be able to register for Mobile Content Venture's Dyle service and watch “national and local” programming broadcast by TV stations. More announcements from MCV are forthcoming.
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Jessell At Large
Mobile DTV: Would You Believe Xmas 2012?
TVNewsCheck,
Oct 21, 2011, 10:45 AM EDT
It’s looking like it will be at least another year before TV stations will be able to offer over-the-air programming to smartphones, tablets and netbooks. Much progress has been made, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. But broadcasters don't have all the time in the world. They are in a competition with broadband. If broadcasters drag this out too long, the broadband carriers will come up with their own "broadcast" solution and broadcasters won't get their chance.
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Content & Communications World Expo
Unresolved Issues Hinder Mobile DTV
TVNewsCheck,
Oct 12, 2011, 3:13 PM EDT
While most agree that the new technology is vital to over-the-air TV’s success in the future, differences over copyrights, affiliate-network rights and relations still need to be worked out.
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OEM Mobile DTV Receiver For Cars Launched
Broadcast Engineering,
Aug 17, 2011, 6:22 AM EDT
Mobile DTV Tally: 126 Stations By Year's End
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Aug 4, 2011, 11:40 AM EDT
The Open Mobile Video Coalition finds that while stations in 48 markets will be ready to go, tablets, smart phones and other personal devices capable of receiving the signals will be not be available until well into 2012. OMVC is working on the necessary guidelines so that samples can be built and shown to retailers at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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The More The Merrier Says Mobile500
TVNewsCheck,
Jun 1, 2011, 7:04 AM EDT
The group of broadcasters promoting mobile DTV is ramping up its plans for a service that will be compatible with whatever the other major mobile initiative, Mobile Content Venture, develops. Mobile500 planners are proposing a joint venture with broadcasters that will develop and market 15-20 channels, including five or six local free channels, 14 or 15 national pay channels and a “hybrid” VOD service using the wireless broadband network, but fully integrated with the broadcast service in a single user interface.
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Broadcasting’s Future Is All About Mobile
TVNewsCheck,
May 20, 2011, 1:34 PM EDT
The demand for mobility has been with us since the dawn of electronic mass media. Makers of receivers have been trying to pack more and more capabilities into smaller packages ever since crystal radios were the rage. And it will be the largest part of television’s future. Smart phones will gradually replace all the dumb phones and everybody with have a TV receiver in their pocket or purse. Broadcasters are in a perfect position to feed these personal TV sets — but only if they hang on to their spectrum.
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Clarification
MCV's Mobile TV Coverage Stands At 87%
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 18, 2011, 2:10 PM EDT
In our April 14 story
"Mobile DTV Poised for Its U.S. Premiere," we incorrectly reported that stations belonging to the Mobile Content Venture jointly cover 40% of the country. The correct figure is 87%, according to MCV. The 40% mentioned in the story is the percentage that will receive MCV's service by the end of 2011. And with today's announcement of additional MCV markets, that figure has jumped to around 50%.
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MCV Promises Mobile DTV In 12 More DMAs
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 18, 2011, 9:23 AM EDT
Counting the 20 markets from previous announcement, Mobile Content Venture has now promised to introduce the service in 32 markets by the end of this year. New markets on list include Seattle, Miami, Denver, Cleveland, St. Louis, Charlotte, Raleigh, Kansas City, Columbus, Las Vegas, Tulsa and Montgomery.
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NAB 2011
Mobile DTV Poised For Its U.S. Premiere
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 14, 2011, 12:17 PM EDT
The country’s two leading proponents of the new technology, the Mobile500 Alliance and the Mobile Content Alliance, both reported considerable progress at this week’s NAB Show, enough to confirm their preliminary rollout plans for this year. And they discount talk that they are competitors: “We both use the same standards. We both want to deliver the content people want in the way they want to receive it,” says MCV’s Erik Moreno. Now it’s up to the cellular carriers to OK phones equipped with mobile DTV receiver chips.
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Nab 2011
PBS Next-Gen EAS Pilot To Use Mobile DTV
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Apr 12, 2011, 11:20 AM EDT
Key partners include LG Electronics and its U.S. R&D subsidiary, Zenith, which will develop handheld mobile DTV devices to receive the new alerts and will provide funding for the project.
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Nab 2011
Content Is Key To Mobile DTV Success
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 12, 2011, 6:34 AM EDT
The importance of tailoring mobile DTV business models to meet evolving consumer needs was one of the topics at Monday’s panel on the new medium and potential revenue stream for broadcasters. Others include lessons from more mature mobile markets overseas and updates from representatives of the Mobile Content Venture and the Mobile 500 Alliance.
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nab 2011
MDTV To Reach 61% Of U.S. In 12 Months
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 7, 2011, 1:38 PM EDT
The prediction by the Open Mobile Video Coalition that mobile DTV will reach more than 71 million households — or 61% of all viewers in America — in the next 12 months comes as the group, along with ATSC and NAB, prepare to open the doors on the Mobile DTV Pavilion at next week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Pavilion will highlight new consumer products, applications and services along with technology demonstrations from major equipment providers.
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Expway-BIM Aims To Monetize Mobile DTV
TVNewsCheck,
Apr 6, 2011, 3:31 PM EDT
Expway, maker of the technology enabling interactive mobile DTV, and Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM), a technology company specializing in revenue, content and technical solutions for TV websites, have partnered to provide targeted advertising to mobile DTV viewers.
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NAB 2011
Mobile DTV Will Be Everywhere At NAB Show
TVNewsCheck,
Mar 31, 2011, 11:49 AM EDT
Panels, papers, prototypes and ready-to-go technology exhibits on the emerging broadcast mobile market will be a big part of next week's NAB Show in Las Vegas. Says ATSC's Jerry Whitaker, "This is the year that broadcast stations want to put mobile on the air and are indeed acting on that.”
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WSYX-WTTE Set To Air Mobile DTV
Television Broadcast,
Mar 31, 2011, 6:34 AM EDT
Two more stations are ready to transmit mobile DTV. Sinclair-operated WSYX (ABC) and WTTE (Fox) Columbus, Ohio, are now outfitted to transmit up to four channels of mobile DTV service.
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Focus On Mobile DTV
Free Is The Key To Mobile DTV Success
TVNewsCheck,
Mar 9, 2011, 6:58 AM EST
As U.S. broadcasters prepare to launch mobile DTV services, they’ve learned important lessons from earlier, similar efforts overseas. First, it’s become clear that to succeed, a mobile service must include free content that consumers know and like at the time they expect it to be on. Then, it must also offer premium content, games and more.
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FCC Nixes OFDM Experiment Request
Television Broadcast,
Feb 14, 2011, 2:52 PM EST
An experimental license for a new system for mobile DTV transmission was denied by the FCC. The license was sought by WatchTV, a Portland, Ore., low-power TV concern headed by Greg Herman, also president of SpectrumEvolution.org, a coalition advocating for the new hybrid DTV/broadband delivery system.
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New Mobile DTV Receive Antennas Detailed
TVNewsCheck,
Feb 1, 2011, 10:46 AM EST
NAB FASTROAD-funded projects develop small VHF, UHF antennas for mobile DTV receivers in cell phones and other devices.
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Letter to the Editor from John Lawson
Mobile DTV Groups Have Much In Common
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 24, 2011, 10:36 AM EST
The Mobile500 Alliance executive director says that
TVNewsCheck’s Jan. 20 story on the Mobile500 Alliance’s “statement of principles” may have" created for some the impression of a level of discord between the Mobile500 Alliance and the Mobile Content Venture that doesn’t exist."
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TVNewsCheck FOCUS ON BUSINESS
Retrans Tops TV's Biggest Business Issues
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 19, 2011, 7:56 AM EST
TVNewsCheck picked the brains of some top broadcasters and analysts to see what the year's important issues will be. For the first time in a long while, the general outlook was optimistic. Getting specific, here are nine things they will be keeping their eyes on: retransmission consent/reverse compensation, the FCC's spectrum incentive auction, mobile DTV, industry consolidation, Comcast-NBCU deal ripple effects, signs of life in M&A, record off-year for political advertising, evolution of digital subchannels, publicly held station groups to pay dividends and local online and mobile media.
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Nielsen Not Yet Up To Rating Mobile TV
New York Post,
Jan 18, 2011, 8:46 AM EST
Nielsen, the market leader in traditional TV ratings, is having a tough time tracking eyeballs elsewhere. It has yet to offer advertisers an accepted way of measuring viewers who watch video on their home computers — let alone on portable devices. Although it is working on measuring video viewing on portable devices, Nielsen said it has no timeline for a rollout.
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DMA 8
WGCL Going Mobile With Thomson Atlanta
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 18, 2011, 8:32 AM EST
The Meredith CBS affiliate is installing a Thomson Broadcast mobile DTV system that includes a program encoder, a multiplexer and an electronic service guide (ESG) server and a compatible DTV transmission exciter.
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Jessell at large
Shapiro's Blind Spot: Broadcast TV Innovation
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 11, 2011, 8:47 AM EST
Gary Shapiro, the president of the Consumer Electronics Association, uses his new book,
The Comeback, to argue the importance of taking spectrum away for TV broadcasters and giving it to broadband providers. What he totally misses or ignores in his arguments is that broadcasters are moving rapidly to use their spectrum to introduce mobile DTV, a service that, by any definition, is innovative and, given the quality of the programming, more important than many of wireless gimcracks and geegaws shown at CES.
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ces 2011
Ion Media Preps Imminent Mobile DTV Launch
B&C,
Jan 7, 2011, 6:07 AM EST
Ion Media Networks has committed to upgrading its stations to launch mobile DTV signals in the first quarter, a move that will make mobile DTV signals available in the nation's top 10 TV markets within 60 says.
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WDIV, WKMG Go Mobile With Harris
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 5, 2011, 2:07 PM EST
The Post-Newsweek stations in Detroit and Orlando choose Harris' MPH ATSC mobile DTV system.
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ces 2011—updated
MVC Outsources Mobile DTV Encryption
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 5, 2011, 9:09 AM EST
Digital security technology specialist Nagra-Kudelski will handle "conditional access" as the Mobile Content Venture outlines that and other technical details of its upcoming mobile DTV service.
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Mobile TV Ready To Hit The Small Screen
Chicago Tribune,
Dec 21, 2010, 6:45 AM EST
The broadcast industry has been developing mobile digital TV for several years, and a small number of stations are on the air, but the platform's availability remains limited. In 2011, the technology is expected to gain momentum as the Mobile Content Venture, a group of 12 major broadcasters, will be upgrading stations to start delivering mobile DTV in 20 markets covering more than 40% of the U.S. population.
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Tech Spotlight
Mobile DTV Repeater Shows Promise
TVNewsCheck,
Dec 16, 2010, 11:30 AM EST
A test of a single-frequency repeater in Washington this summer and fall indicates that it may be what broadcasters need to fill in coverage gaps in their mobile DTV service when they roll it out next year. "I'm cautiously optimistic," says OMVC's Sterling Davis (left).
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CPB To Fund Mobile DTV Initiative
TVNewsCheck,
Dec 15, 2010, 3:35 PM EST
The money will go to stations in 20 markets for the purchase of equipment so they can launch mobile transmission by the end of next year.
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Jessell at Large
TV Poised For New Golden Age With Mobile
TVNewsCheck,
Nov 19, 2010, 2:12 PM EST
The announcement by the Mobile Content Venture that at least 40 NBC and Fox O&Os and affiliates will start broadcasting ad-supported mobile DTV service next year is the first step in moving broadcast TV into what promises to be a revolutionary and profitable future. Now what's needed is for the networks to work out the copyright issues so that all stations can take all their network programing mobile. And perhaps now, the FCC will start to realize that there are more better ways to serve consumers and more efficient uses for TV spectrum than just handing it all over to broadband.
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TVNewscheck Exclusive
NBC, Fox TVs Vow Mobile Launch In 20 DMAs
TVNewsCheck,
Nov 19, 2010, 8:30 AM EST
Led by the Mobile Content Venture, the O&Os and affiliates of the two networks will air at least two ad-supported mobile DTV channels in at least 20 markets by the end of 2011. The effort is aimed at encouraging the manufacture of mobile receivers and sparking consumer demand. MCV would not discuss what the programming will be, but industry sources said it will likely be simulcasts of the stations' conventional broadcasts. “The good news…is that we are finally getting going,” says MCV's Eric Moreno.
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Lawson Named Mobile500 Executive Director
TVNewsCheck,
Nov 15, 2010, 2:40 PM EST
John Lawson, the former Ion exec, will lead the effort to promote mobile DTV that's made up of 40 groups that operate more than 400 TV stations.
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Mobile TV Test Shows Positive Ad Results
MediaPost,
Nov 8, 2010, 8:05 AM EST
In an ambitious series of tests organized by the Open Mobile Video Coalition, consumers equipped with special cell phones and portable personal computers capable of receiving over-the-air broadcast TV signals are yielding encouraging results, especially in terms of advertising exposure and recall. Link
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Sook Sanguine About Election Results
TVNewsCheck,
Nov 3, 2010, 12:07 PM EDT
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook says that the new Congress will likely leave broadcasting alone as it tackles issues other than retransmission consent and spectrum reallocation. Broadcasters, he says, should concentrate on developing mobile, a business that he says "may dwarf everything."
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