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The Advanced TV Systems Committee (ATSC) approved a new recommend...

The Advanced TV Systems Committee (ATSC) approved a new recommended practice on the design of specialized transmission facilities that use multiple transmitters to cover a station’s service area. The ATSC recommendation focuses on single frequency networks, which it said…

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provide more uniform signal levels throughout the area being served. The single frequency also reduces interference, has fewer terrain limitations and more reliable indoor reception, ATSC executives said. The recommended practice is a companion to ATSC’s standard on the means to synchronize the emissions of multiple DTV transmitters.