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South Korean wireless telecom company SK Telecom, Sinclair Broadcast Group and its subsidiary ONE Media this week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the 2018 CES in Las Vegas to create an overarching wireless network architecture based on ATSC 3.0 and deploy a proof of concept before July.

The FCC has put a lump of coal in the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s stocking in the form of a $13,376,200 proposed fine for violating the commission’s sponsorship identification rules.

The trio of Sinclair Broadcast Group, One Media and TeamCast were singled out during the Innovation Awards Ceremony during IBC 2017 to honor the work the three had done on the Next Generation of Broadcast Platform project.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media Group have reached a tentative agreement on principles to coordinate the transition of the over-the-air delivery to ATSC 3.0 in 97 television markets.

The Federal Communications Commission has opened a docket on Sinclair’s $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media.

Size matters in the retrans debate.

Sinclair subsidiary ONE Media struck an agreement to develop ATSC 3.0 chipsets with Bangalore-based Saankhyya Labs, a developer of cognitive software-defined radio chips.

The consortium will be jointly owned and controlled equally by both companies, but they will collaborate on a non-exclusive basis with the intent to include of other broadcasters.

Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it expects to receive an estimated $313 million of gross proceeds from the TV spectrum incentive auction.

Since receiver specs are typically the bailiwick of receiver manufacturers a la the Consumer Technology Association, and audience metrics of third-party providers, TV Technology wondered just how this effort would work and what would be involved.

Sinclair was flight ready when rules for commercial use of unmanned aerial systems went into effect in late August.

The long-time chief executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group is going to Washington.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and its subsidiary, ONE Media, are focusing on ATSC 3.0 receiver design and cross-platform user data collection.

This Friday, Aug. 19, Little Rock, Ark., will be the launching site for the “Broadcast TV Liberation Tour,” a five-state, five-city tour on how consumers can access local broadcast TV channels with an advanced digital antenna in HD for free.

Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that its digital agency solutions group has been branded under the name, “Compulse Integrated Marketing.

A consortium of broadcast technology developers, including Sinclair Broadcast Group, reported doing field tests of ATSC 3.0 concepts over a single frequency network on the East Coast on Monday this week. Mark Aitken, Sinclair’s ATSC 3.0 evangelist, fielded questions from TV Technology about the 3.0 SFN tests.

Sinclair Broadcast Group executives said they looked at other cable networks, but that Tennis Channel had the most potential for growth.