US hybrid video operator Evoca TV will cease operations at the end of 2022, unless it secures the necessary funding to survive. The collapse of the service, which harnesses the ATSC 3.0 or NextGen TV technology – which is heavily focused on mobile and converged, as well as conventional, broadcast – would be a crushing blow to the nascent NextGen TV community. But this fate looks more and more inevitable. According to Evoca TV’s CEO, Todd Achilles, many broadcasters believe the firm, owned by Edge Networks, has the only viable ATSC 3.0 model. However, some might argue that there is no such thing, yet. Achilles is attempting to keep sprits high, claiming that the business is “making good progress” with…