This webinar series is intended for station engineers and technology management who wish to obtain a better understanding of the ATSC-3 standard that powers NEXTGEN TV. Participants will be guided in the knowledge of what it takes to create and share services on a NEXTGEN TV “host” station. Also, participants will gain a general and operational knowledge of the standard as well. Additionally, these webinars will provide a basic explanation of content protection, broadcaster application and framework, service profiles, equipment installation. Technical explanations of the ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer will be covered in a separate series of workshops under development by Meintel, Sgrignoli, & Wallace on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters.


This webinar series includes seven segments entitled:

• Standing up a Host Station (Available now)
• ATSC 3.0 Layered Structure (Available now)
• Encoding and Packaging (Available now)
• Encapsulation, Signaling & Gateway (Available July 16)
• HELD and NRT, Application & Framework  (Available July 30)
• Content Security and Service Protection (Available August 13)
• Host Station Configuration and Service Profiles (Available August 26)