UIN Staff 10 1 25 info@uintv.net
There is a war going on in the media industry. No, it’s not the one being waged by the Trump administration against late night comedians and news reporting. This one is being waged by broadcast TV giants like Paramount, ABC, NBC and Fox. They not only want to maintain their media monopoly of the minds and pocketbooks of America but also capture more personal data to manipulate your habits.
This is being done in the name of ATSC 3.0 or NEXGEN TV. In truth IPTV pioneers like UIN (Urban Information Network) has been using much of this technology for years. Features like interactivity, online purchases, wide variety of content, community and much more. The biggest factor is cost. Much of IPTV content is FAST or Free Ad Supported TV. So what the broadcasters are labeling :NEXGEN” is already here.
Here is what industry expert George Winslow has to say:
“These private television interests—some burdened with heavy debt—promote the transition as “necessary modernization.” In reality, it would impose significant costs on both consumers and broadcasters while offering no meaningful advantages over what streaming services already provide.”
“Venture Technologies believes that broadcast television faces long-term challenges as audiences steadily migrate to streaming platforms, that ATSC 3.0 will not alter this trajectory, and that a forced transition would accelerate the collapse of free, over-the-air TV,” the filing concluded. “The push for such a mandate is not driven by the public interest but by entrenched corporate interests seeking to profit through patent royalties, licensing fees, and equipment sales. Just as past late-stage technology “upgrades” failed to save obsolete formats, ATSC 3.0 will not revive broadcast television in an era defined by streaming.”
