Confirming what Faultline foresaw weeks ago, commercial rollouts of ATSC 3.0 – which were due to begin this month – have been pushed back to June 2020. While industry insiders insist this is (another) mere blip on the road to NextGen TV, with every day of delay the window of opportunity narrows. Indeed, the FCC has only received 24 applications to date for the broadcast-broadband hybrid standard, a number which NAB 2020 was destined to pump up. With the major broadcast TV event canned and technology vendors on lockdown – and therefore unable to physically install ATSC 3.0 equipment – the market opportunity hangs precariously on loosened restrictions in the coming months. Assuming lockdowns are lifted within the next six…