NextGen Broadcasts Launched By Five Stations in Little Rock

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

ATSC signals airing in more than 25 cities

NextGen TV
NextGen TV Little Rock ATSC 3.0

Five television stations in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday began broadcasting using the new ATSC 3.0 format.

ATSC 3.0 offers NextGen TV with better picture and sound quality, access to internet content and the ability for stations to offer new digital services.

The stations participating in the switch over are Sinclair Broadcast Group’s KATV, Tegna’s KTHV-TV, Nexstar’s KARK-TV and KARZ-TV, and Mission Broadcasting’s KLRT-TV.

Stations in Orlando also started ATSC 3.0 broadcasting on Wednesday. Last week, Baltimore stations lit up their NextGen TV transmitters.

With the Little Rock launch, ATSC 3.0 signal are available in at least 25 markets.

NextGen TV is designed to be upgradable so a viewer’s television advances with the latest technology.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.