Fox First O&O Station Group to Join AWARN Alliance

Fox Television Stations became the first owned and operated station group to join ATSC 3.0 alerting group the Advanced Warning and Response Network Alliance, AWARN said. “We support the Alliance’s broader mission to develop a framework for providing emergency information beyond the initial alert,” said Fox Executive Vice President-Engineering, Operations and Technology Richard Friedel in the release Thursday: “ATSC 3.0 will enable FOX Television Stations to use its local news assets as never before." AWARN said it will hold roundtable discussions with “TV news thought leaders” in the months ahead: “The goal is development of a voluntary framework for packaging a TV station’s news assets and using ATSC 3.0 to engage with viewers as their trusted information source across multiple devices.” Also last week, a 3.0 conference was held in Washington (see 1905310007).