This year’s Fall Classic is shaping up to be a historic one, and not just because the Chicago Cubs or Cleveland Indians are poised to end long title droughts. A local Cleveland TV station had the first live ATSC 3.0 broadcast of a major sporting event during game one of the World Series on Tuesday night, according to a press release of ATSC.
The experimental station, using the standardized transmission system for the ATSC 3.0 Next Gen TV standard, is simulcasting network and local programming from Cleveland’s local Fox affiliate WJW-TV, while also utilizing the station’s transmitter and broadcast facilities. The NAB received an FCC experimental license to operate a full-power Channel 31 transmitter.
Technical contributions for the broadcast came from GatesAir (ATSC 3.0 exciter), LG Electronics (ATSC 3.0 receivers and antennas), Harmonic (real-time encoders for HEVC video and Dolby AC4 audio), and Triveni Digital (signaling/announcement metadata, IP stream generation, ATSC 3.0 analyzer, and system integration support).
