Excluding all lockdown-related and external supply chain slowdowns, Faultline has been a vocal critic of delays to ATSC 3.0 deployments across the US – frustration borne from integral industry executives brushing missed timeframe commitments under the carpet. A prime example is Anne Schelle, MD of US broadcast partnership group Pearl TV, whom Faultline interviewed with little joy in early 2018. Others, like the ATSC’s Skip Pizzi, who is currently Chair of the IT-5 Brazil Implementation Team for SBTVD 3.0, is happy to address such qualms. The latest being that the FCC appears to have run out of patience, as it seeks answers as to why US broadcasters are currently licensed to provide ATSC 3.0 services in 54 markets, as of…