NAB Forms Company to Launch Broadcast Positioning Service

NAB Launches BPS Company; LeGeyt 'Encouraged' on ATSC 3.0

NAB has launched a for-profit company to focus on developing the Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) as a backup to GPS, which could serve as an "accelerant" for regulatory and consumer adoption of ATSC 3.0, said Curtis LeGeyt, the group's CEO...

NAB Forms Company to Launch Broadcast Positioning Service

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2026 — Providers of free TV are looking at a new line of business: Providing competition to the Global Positioning System (GPS) that beams mapping data to hundreds of millions of iPhone and Android devices. The National Association of Broadcasters announced the launch of Merkhet Solutions, a company developing a terrestrial positioning system beamed from hundreds of TV station towers across the country.  See Breakfast Club M…