A technology infrastructure company has been retained by one of the nation’s leading noncommercial secular broadcasting operations to perform a “turnkey project” replacing its existing high-power TV transmitter atop San Francisco’s famed Sutro Tower.
It’s the latest move that brings ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV and such things as Broadcast Internet to the Bay Area.
Signal Infrastructure Group (SIG) is handling the addition of a ATSC 3.0-ready transmitter for digital Channel 30, used by PBS Member station KQED-9.
Its a transmitter model that comes via GatesAir, the company recently acquired by Thomson Broadcast, the French operation with a U.S. headquarters in Riviera Beach, Fla.
As SIG sees it, it is “removing the burden on KQED resources” by handling all the designing, specifying, sourcing, managing, installing, and commissioning of the new transmitter.
It’s a specialty of SIG, which builds and operates broadcast transmission and software infrastructure to expand access to content and information in communities across the country.
SIG EVP of Infrastructure Jim Stenberg is overseeing the project. “We look forward to delivering their desired goals and more,” he said.
