LG is demonstrating reception on the CES floor of live, over-the-air 4K Ultra HD broadcasts in high dynamic range using the new ATSC 3.0 candidate standard, the company said Wednesday. The “landmark broadcast” over channel 18 is emanating from the transmitter of KHMP Las Vegas on Nevada’s Black Mountain, LG said. KHMP is owned and operated by DNV Spectrum Holdings, LG said.

DTS will demo HD Radio at its CES booth, the first major demo of the technology since DTS acquired iBiquity (see 1510070014) last year. KUNV(FM) Las Vegas will broadcast special content via HD Radio on its HD2 channel during CES, said DTS, which will have several Acura RDX vehicles tuned to the broadcast. New car models -- the Cadillac CT6, Honda Civic, Kia Rio, Lexus RX, Nissan Leaf, Toyota Land Cruiser and Toyota Prius -- will have HD Radio receivers, said DTS in a Monday news release.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected TV station licensee Lawrence Behr's appeal of an FCC order denying his request for a hearing over the agency's denial of his application for a waiver of rules. Behr asked the FCC in 2003 for a multiyear waiver of its requirement that he build a base station within 12 months, said the court's judgment. When the FCC denied his waiver, Behr argued that because the waiver request was physically attached to an application to modify his license, FCC rules required that he be granted a hearing, but the commission said the two were separate documents. The D.C. Circuit decided the appeal doesn't require a published opinion, the judgment said.

NAB Labs invested in Baltimore-based data startup Yet Analytics, NAB said in a news release Monday. “Yet Analytics provides cutting-edge platforms for the multi-source collection and analysis of human and machine performance data within Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations.” The company uses open source tech that was originally developed by the Department of Defense, said NAB. “The data collection and analysis tools that Yet Analytics has developed offer a range of applications that could provide solutions for broadcasters," said NAB Chief Technology Officer Sam Matheny.

ATSC issued requests for proposals for an ATSC 3.0 “consumer showcase” and ATSC 3.0 “workflow demonstrations” for the NAB Show in April, ATSC said Monday in the January issue of its monthly newsletter, The Standard. The consumer showcase will be in the lobby area in the upper level of the Las Vegas Convention Center's South Hall. Managed jointly by ATSC, CTA and NAB, the showcase will emphasize products and technologies that highlight “the consumer side of ATSC 3.0,” including 4K reception, immersive audio and advanced emergency alerting, it said. The workflow demonstrations, to be in a special area of the NAB Futures Park pavilion at the east end of the Upper South Hall, will “highlight new equipment that will be required at the broadcast station to offer the consumer access to the advanced features enabled by ATSC 3.0,” it said. ATSC also is “exploring the feasibility of providing a live ATSC 3.0 link” from the workflow demonstrations to the consumer showcase, it said.

The “Future of Cinema” technical conference at April’s NAB Show will have a “refocused” theme, “with an emphasis on the work and inspiration of the industry's newest generation of filmmakers,” said conference producer Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers Monday. The conference has gone by a series of different names in past years, most recently as the Technology Summit on Cinema event on days one and two of the NAB Show. For 2016, the Future of Cinema conference will be April 16-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, SMPTE said. The conference will include sessions on the “creative use” of high dynamic range and HDR mastering and delivery to the home, among other topics, SMPTE said.

No other separately owned TV station operates on a sub-channel that corresponds to the major channel of a competing TV station, Meredith and CBS said in an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 14-150 on PMCM's channel request. The Media Bureau assigned PMCM's WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, to virtual channel 33, though PMCM is seeking to be assigned virtual channel 3.10. PMCM has said it needs 3.10 because viewers’ TVs don’t tune to the Media Bureau-assigned channel when “33” is entered on a remote. That’s “a problem that does not exist for these viewers if they tune ‘33.1,’” CBS and Meredith said. “Of all the [program and system information protocol] channels potentially available for WJLP, PMCM still insists on the one channel that the Media Bureau expressly has determined it cannot have.”

A pair of filing windows were set for AM stations to apply for waivers to modify and/or relocate FM translators. The FCC Media Bureau said in an announcement Wednesday the first window for AM licensees or permit holders to file an FM translator modification application will be Jan. 29-July 28, with the second July 29-Oct. 31. The windows were set as part of the FCC's AM revitalization order issued in October (see 1510260062), with the first window only for Class C and D AM stations and the second for all AM stations. The applications can be completed online at www.fcc.gov/media/radio/am-revitalization.

Grupo Televisa and Univision plan to expand their partnership to "provide more opportunities for Latinos in the U.S. media and technology sectors" in 2016, Univision said in a news release Friday. Univision said the increased partnership will include "a wide variety of education, mentorship and career development programs," and will address two main goals -- strengthening and expanding existing efforts to increase the pipeline of Latinos in the media and technology sectors and developing and educating future media leaders. Projects under the new initiative include development fellowships for multicultural and millennial writers in media, incubator programs, entrepreneurial development opportunities and various school outreach programs, said the release.

FCC Public Safety Bureau staff suggested the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council present new proposals in MMTC's 2005 petition with others for ways that broadcasters can transmit emergency alert system content in languages other than English when EAS outlets broadcasting in those languages go off air during disasters, the group said. The staff said that could "include best practices that could be reported as part of State EAS plans," MMTC said in a filing Thursday in docket 04-296. The group had asked the bureau to work with the agency "toward a workable solution that would achieve the primary goals" of what it calls the Katrina petition (see 1511170048), after the 2005 Hurricane Katrina that caused widespread loss of life and damage. "Perhaps broadcast stations might be willing to voluntarily provide multilingual emergency broadcasts," and the FCC would consider offering some regulatory relief for the “Good Samaritans,” said the group. "MMTC and FCC staff discussed the role of essential emergency personnel with language skills who could be called upon to provide multilingual radio programming during an emergency," it said of the meeting that included Chief David Simpson and others in the bureau. The FCC confirmed it invited suggestions from MMTC on further measures that EAS participants could take to support multilingual alerting, an agency spokeswoman emailed us Friday.