Secure Content Distribution at Heart of New ATSC 3.0 Receivers for Consumers and Broadcasters

More than 18.5 million ATSC 3.0 Devices Now in Homes can
Successfully Receive and Display Protected Over-the-Air Broadcasts

Las Vegas, NV – April 17, 2026 – A new generation of ATSC 3.0 receivers is on the horizon, transforming how consumers experience free over-the-air television, securely delivering broadcast TV convent with advanced picture quality and modern in-home distribution capabilities for both consumers and professional broadcasters.

In the ATSC booth at the NAB Show (Central 1655) next week, the ATSC 3.0 Security Authority (A3SA) is showcasing a range of innovations from leading ATSC 3.0 platform and device providers, including new and existing upgrade receivers from Airwavz, MyVelo TV, and  Zapperbox, to demonstrate secure and reliable delivery of ATSC 3.0 broadcast content while  delivering new recording and in-home distribution options for consumers and broadcasters.

“Free, over-the-air television remains one of the most important and accessible platforms for delivering news, sports, and entertainment to American households.  Content security is a key enabler of that future, giving content owners the confidence to continue making high-value programming available on broadcast TV.  We know that content piracy is a real threat and imposes multi-billion dollar revenue losses on the sports industry, particularly.  It’s a fact that premium sports and live programming increasingly require content protection as a condition of distribution platforms and that broadcasters are competing directly with streaming platforms that have long used content protection.  Without protection, high-value programming will migrate to subscription-based platforms.  And content protection helps preserve free over-the-air television as a competitive platform for premium content,” said A3SA managing director Joe St. Jean

“We’re also pleased to note that A3SA recently commissioned a focused review, conducted by a certified public accounting firm, of A3SA-enabled televisions in the market today.  We confirmed that nearly 40 NEXTGEN TV models from Hisense, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and TCL, comprising the vast majority of the 18.5 millions A3SA-enabled televisions sold, are fully capable of decrypting protected content, with or without an Internet connection, ensuring that consumers can reliably access the full benefits of next-generation broadcast services,” St. Jean added.

New Receiver Innovations on Display

• Airwavz.tv will showcase the TvXplorer Suite with decryption capabilities for A3SA-protected content.  A broadcaster professional analysis tool, the TvXplorer suite is for ATSC 3.0 broadcasters who travel light and need to find signal problems quickly, Airwavz.tv’s support for A3SA’s technology protects premium content while enabling seamless delivery to authorized users. TvXplorer delivers trusted protection at scale with enterprise-level security and authentication, ensuring content stays protected from source to screen.

• MyVelo TV, a next-generation broadcast-first platform provider, introduces the MyVelo TV Premiere, designed to seamlessly unify free NEXTGEN TV, streaming apps, and premium picture performance into a single experience. Built for how people actually watch TV, MyVelo TV supports all major HDR formats, including Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HLG, and Advanced HDR by Technicolor. By combining free over-the-air television with intelligent content discovery and best-in-class AI-driven picture optimization, MyVelo TV delivers a simpler, higher-quality viewing experience for consumers while enabling broadcasters to offer more immersive content and drive deeper audience engagement. 

• The ZapperBox Whole-Home Gateway is on display at NAB Show, available in quad-tuner, dual-tuner, single-tuner, and mini configurations to extend ATSC 3.0 signals throughout the home.  Zapperbox will show a new hardware model – the first NEXTGEN TV quad-tuner whole home gateway with Zapper Mini receivers for secondary rooms.  ZapperBox will also showcase a new software release with Advanced HDR by Technicolor for dual-tuner and quad-tuner receivers.

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About A3SA:  To bring ATSC 3.0 content protection tools to fruition, a broadcaster-led initiative established A3SA (the ATSC 3.0 Security Authority) a neutral, standards-based administrator that provides the credentials and compliance framework needed to deliver secure NextGen TV to viewers. A3SA’s mission is simple: enable broadcasters to protect premium content, ensure signal integrity, and preserve the free, over-the-air TV model, all while fostering device interoperability and consumer confidence. By providing a common security platform accessible to the entire broadcast industry, A3SA’s approach spared both broadcasters and consumers the inefficiency and fragmentation that would have resulted from each building their own separate content protection frameworks.