NAB Pushes for ATSC 1.0 Sunset, Full Next Gen TV Rollout

2025-03-15
NAB Pushes for ATSC 1.0 Sunset, Full Next Gen TV Rollout

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) petitioned the FCC for a clear nationwide transition plan to fully deploy Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0). The proposed two-phased plan includes modernizing regulations to boost consumer access and innovation. NAB highlights Next Gen TV's superior picture quality, immersive audio, and interactive features, but argues outdated regulations hinder progress. The plan calls for top 55 markets (70% of US population) to transition by February 2028, with remaining stations following by February 2030. This enables enhanced picture/sound, interactive apps, hyper-local programming, and new datacasting capabilities.

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Cloudflare Sues LaLiga Over Excessive IP Blocking

2025-02-24
Cloudflare Sues LaLiga Over Excessive IP Blocking

Cloudflare is suing LaLiga for its massive IP blocking actions. In an attempt to combat piracy of football matches, LaLiga blocked websites DaznFutbolios and RBTV77, but this inadvertently affected millions of users accessing unrelated websites. Cloudflare argues LaLiga's actions were unreasonable, failing to notify cloud providers and concealing the potential harm to third parties, thus threatening the open internet. This lawsuit challenges LaLiga's blocking order and upholds the fundamental right of millions of consumers to access the open internet.

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