What is the reception range of ATSC 3.0 going to be? I've seen conflicting information online. Some say range will be increasing, others say decreasing.
There are many, many variables and a relative vacuum of data to make such a call. Some areas are mostly dependent on reach while others are going to be all about interference in a jam-packed spectrum.
As I recall, there are two US stations "experimenting" with ATSC 3.0 (WJW Cleveland and WRAL Raleigh) and one or two demonstrations that have been set up; hardly a statistical sample. The other side of the coin is in the short term and how DTV and ATSC 3.0 might (or might not) coexist.
As for WJW, Rich Chernock of the the ATSC recently commented that there were two receivers that picked up the ATSC 3.0 World Series broadcast: one in the station and one in the feed truck at the stadium. From an interview, "What's up with ATSC 3.0", he did for another forum (highly recommended for a basic understanding of what ATSC 3.0 represents), the ratified standard is still months away.
I was disappointed to learn that the US is going to use Dolby AC4 while most of the rest of the planet is going to use MPEG-H for audio.
Of course ATSC 3.0 is largely off-topic for a thread about the repack auctions outside of the fact that we may be making both transitions more or less at the same time.