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Why do stations use their digital spectrum to multicast?

April 26, 2017digital Multicast spectrum stations

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Why do stations use their digital spectrum to multicast?

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Many broadcast stations choose to multicast programming like Weather and Traffic. This gives viewers more programming content (for free, over-the-air) and broadcasters more advertising opportunities. Some stations choose to multicast all of the time in addition to their high definition broadcast.