Phil Kurz
Phil Kurz is a contributing editor to TV Tech. He has written about TV and video technology for more than 30 years and served as editor of three leading industry magazines. He earned a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism.
Latest articles by Phil Kurz

Tolka, Advanced HDR By Technicolor Team Up on NextGen TV Receiver From ADTH
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV Viewers can now watch HDR content from NextGen TV broadcasters with their legacy DTVs

DPG’s VTM GO Streamer Adds Advanced Ad Measurement
By Phil Kurz published
Solution gives brands and agencies a better understanding of the impact of CTV channels

ACCESS Europe, FIFA+ Sign Agreement on Global Smart TV, In-Car Availability of Soccer
By Phil Kurz published
SPORTS FIFA+ will use ACCESS’s NetRange Smart TV Portals and ACCESS Twine.

Scripps, Gray, Nexstar, Sinclair Form Powerhouse ATSC 3.0 Wireless Data Delivery Joint Venture
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV EdgeBeam Wireless is targeting customers in automotive, content delivery networks and enhanced GPS

New Cinecoder SDK Ensures Continued H.264 Interlace Support With NVIDIA GPUs
By Phil Kurz published
Latest SDK version addresses a problem facing broadcasters with end of Pascal-based hardware

Roku Launches Data Cloud To Expand Access to Proprietary TV Data
By Phil Kurz published
Roku Data Cloud gives advertisers and agencies access to reliable info from its TV OS

PEAK3 Partners With Building Automation Company on ATSC 3.0 Data Streaming
By Phil Kurz published
Streaming HotEdge will use 3.0 data streams broadcast to its roof ice-melt systems with trials beginning this month

Quickplay To Unveil Shorts Tool for Creating, Syndicating Vertical Short-Form Content
By Phil Kurz published
New solution integrates seamlessly into existing OTT ecosystems

John Lawson Reflects on His AWARN Alliance Tenure
By Phil Kurz published
Opinion Says advanced alerting played a key role in getting FCC to approve ATSC 3.0

Canon USA Promotes Multiple Executives
By Phil Kurz published
Kiyoshi Oka and Masato Mori among those who advanced

RCA To Unveil 55-Inch, 65-Inch NextGen TVs at CES 2025
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV New sets support Advanced HDR by Technicolor and offer up to 1,500 nits of peak brightness

GameLoop TV To Bring Interactive, NextGen TV Games to CES 2025
By Phil Kurz published
With the NextGen TV app, viewers can play “Wheel of Fortune” and other games on their TVs

Dallas Mavericks Roll Out New Streaming Platform
By Phil Kurz published
Sports Working with Endeavor Streaming and the NBA, team offers fans a one-stop Mavs shop

NextGen TV: The Push Is On
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV Broadcasters look to leverage HDR, sports and even year-round promotion in 2025

Blackmagic Design Adds Icon View, Other Features to Blackmagic Cloud
By Phil Kurz published
Icon view shows users thumbnails that enable scrubbing to preview footage

WRAZ Raleigh Adopts Advanced HDR by Technicolor for ATSC 3.0 Transmission
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV Visual quality, simplified workflow and bandwidth efficiency made the tech attractive to owner Capitol Broadcasting

Women’s Sports Network Expands Reach With Samsung TV Plus Deal
By Phil Kurz published
Streaming Network partners with League One Volleyball to stream matches exclusively on smart-TV maker’s platform

Roku Inks Deal for X Games Aspen U.S. Streaming Rights
By Phil Kurz published
Exclusive pact also covers a new X Games event in summer 2025

Nashville PBS, Sinclair Launch Virtual WNPT NextGen TV Channel
By Phil Kurz published
NextGen TV Leveraging ATSC 3.0 OTA and streaming capabilities, the channel mirrors pubcaster’s main feed

ARRI Unveils ARTEMIS 2 Live Camera Stabilizer
By Phil Kurz published
Products Compact, lightweight ARTEMIS 2 Live is designed for electronic field production applications

ATSC 3.0 Advances on Multiple Fronts in 2024
By Phil Kurz published
2024 in Review Results of the U.S. presidential election may set the stage for even better things for NextGen TV

Lawo Releases v12.0.0 Software For mc2 Mixing Console
By Phil Kurz published
Equipment New release offers native support for the HOME mc2 DSP App running generic CPU platforms
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