Beyond (TV service)

Beyond Digital TV, Inc., doing business as Beyond (stylized as beyond), is an American multichannel video programming distributor which uses ATSC 3.0 lighthouse stations to run a pay television service and distribute original television content.

Co-founded in 2018 by Scott Helm, Masis Chilingaryan and Dan Rennie and based out of, Beyond aims to provide an alternative for traditional cable and satellite television for cord cutters by providing over-the-air television viewers with additional content and services through encrypted signals that can be decrypted and received only through ATSC 3.0 tuners and compatible equipment with a built-in card slot.

History
Beyond Digital TV, Inc. was founded on February 2, 2018 by Scott Helm, Masis Chilingaryan and Dan Rennie. Rennie was inspired to join Helm and Chilingaryan in creating Beyond after co-producing the documentary ITV Digital: Off the Air for DocumentaryTV and ; upon researching and examining the history of the British service, as well as the histories of other over-the-air subscription TV services like, he came to the conclusion that the concept of a over-the-air pay television service was viable but that the efforts of companies like ONdigital/ITV Digital were "fraught with poor planning and poor market research." During the second half of 2018, Beyond Digital TV, Inc. had raised $13 million in series A funding from investors that included, , MatsuMedia, and venture capital firms  and

On May 2, 2018, the FCC voted 3–2 in favor of an order authorizing Beyond Digital TV, Inc. to "research methods of encrypting ATSC 3.0 signals for a pay television service", and perform testing for the service.

In January 2020, Beyond began testing it's services as part of ATSC 3.0 NextGenTV trials in.

Launch
On May 26, 2020, Beyond was officially launched, with its debut markets being, (as part of a ATSC 3.0 rollout) and. The company celebrated its launch with a "virtual concert" (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and fireworks around, home to the transmission towers of many of the Las Vegas area's television and radio stations, and , home to the transmission towers for several Phoenix area television stations. The service had a launch price of $12.99 a month for a basic package containing many popular cable TV networks plus the networks, with premium services other than Starz Encore (such as, , , , , Applause and Now) costing $5.00 extra. Beyond Digital TV, Inc. also announced plans for in-house networks, predominately sports ones, if the service had "good initial turnout".

2021
In spite of a slow rollout that had to be timed with individual ATSC 3.0 rollouts in planned markets, Beyond began to turn a profit, and by March 2021 Beyond estimated it had 100,000 subscribers.

In July 2021, Beyond added, , the , , and.

On October 7, 2021, Beyond completed its initial public offering as a New York Stock Exchange company, raising roughly $183 million in proceeds.

Markets
Beyond currently operates in:
 * Albany/​Schenectady/​Troy, New York
 * Albuquerque/​Santa Fe, New Mexico
 * Atlanta, Georgia
 * Austin, Texas
 * Baltimore, Maryland
 * Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/Anniston, Alabama
 * Boston, Massachusetts
 * Charlotte, North Carolina
 * Las Vegas, Nevada
 * Phoenix, Arizona

BeyondTV Networks
In 2022, Beyond launched the first of a set of in-house channels free to its subscribers, which form the core of the service's basic package.
 * BeyondSport 1
 * BeyondSport 2
 * BeyondTV Movies
 * BeyondTV Food
 * BeyondTV World
 * BeyondTV Reality
 * BeyondTV Comedy
 * BeyondTV Kids