At the recent National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, broadcasters reached a consensus that “ATSC 1.0 Must Go!” Among those involved, one of the most vocal opponents of the current digital TV broadcast format is Sinclair Broadcast Group, the former owner of central Illinois stations WICS and WICD. ATSC 1.0 is now over 20 years old and has served over-the-air TV viewers well. Certainly, the quality of the video signal is considerably better than the prev

Me, my wife and daughters after the self-installation (with help from my neighbor friend, Barry) of my C-Band Satellite Dish in 1984. Remember those big 8 to 12-foot huge satellite dishes that occupied many back yards, and even a few front yards, from the early 1980s through the early 2000s? Those were called C-band satellite dishes, which enabled consumers, like yours truly, to hijack television signals originally meant to feed cable TV systems from coast to coast to watch

DirecTV has sent comments to the Federal Communications Commission and released a new study that questions whether lifting ownership limits on station groups would actually improve local news. For years, the NAB and broadcast owners have said that the total hours of local broadcast news coverage have gone up over the past decade. A study by the NAB found that newscasts have increased by 35% of the schedule since 2011. The DirecTV study takes a different approach. It focuses o

The FCC, directed by the Trump Administration, has issued a new ruling that could significantly affect major daytime and late-night talk shows, including “The View,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and “Late Night with Steven Colbert.” The core argument here is whether this ruling is a targeted response to criticism from talk show hosts. The president, frustrated by monologue jokes, previously failed to have “Jimmy