NAB Wants FCC to Move on ATSC 3.0 Multicasting
“Unnecessary and ill-advised” limitations on the deployment of new ATSC 3.0 multicast streams for broadcasters will harm viewers, said NAB in a call Friday with FCC Media Bureau staff, according to an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 16-142.…
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Broadcasters have launched additional multicast streams since the release of the FCC’s further NPRM on ATSC 3.0 multicasting “and will continue to launch additional programming in the future,” NAB said. NAB “continues to be willing to work with the Commission,” but the FCC should “move forward expeditiously without being distracted by bad faith arguments designed to frustrate innovation,” the group said.