NextGen TV Goes Online With Stations in Wichita, Kansas

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Gray’s KSCT, Mercury’s KMTW convert to ATSC 3.0

NextGen TV
NextGen TV offers viewers better picture and sound quality as well as more content from the internet. (Image credit: NextGEn TV)

Television stations in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas, market have begun offering viewers programming using NextGen TV technology.

As part of a coordinated effort, Gray Television’s KSCW-DT and Mercury Broadcasting Co.’s KMTW-DT have converted to broadcasting using the new ATSC 3.0 format. Those stations are broadcasting their own programming, as well as content from four other stations in the market that continue to transmit in the ATSC 1.0 digital format.

The other participating stations are Lockwood Broadcast’s KAKE, Gray’s KWCH-DT, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s KSAS, Nexstar Media Group’s KSNW and KS Public Telecommunications Service’s KPTS. 

NextGen TV offers viewers a better picture, higher quality sound, the ability to view content from the internet. 

Also: Noncoms to FCC: ATSC 3.0 Transition Is Challenging

BitPath, a company that is developing new data broadcasting services that can be carried on the NextGen signal, led the planning process and coordinated efforts across the seven television stations in Wichita 

NextGen TV signals are already on the air in more than 50 cities, according to BitPath. ■

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.