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style="display:none">Video and audio industry protocol</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg/400px-MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg/600px-MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg/800px-MPEG_Transport_Stream_HL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption>Multiple MPEG programs are combined then sent to a transmitting antenna. An <a href="/wiki/ATSC_tuner" title="ATSC tuner">ATSC receiver</a> then decodes the TS and displays it.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Program and System Information Protocol</b> (<b>PSIP</b>) is the <a href="/wiki/MPEG" class="mw-redirect" title="MPEG">MPEG</a> (Moving Picture Experts Group, a video and audio industry group) and privately defined <a href="/wiki/Program-specific_information" title="Program-specific information">program-specific information</a> originally defined by <a href="/wiki/General_Instrument" title="General Instrument">General Instrument</a> for the <a href="/wiki/DigiCipher_2" title="DigiCipher 2">DigiCipher 2</a> system and later extended for the <a href="/wiki/ATSC_standards" title="ATSC standards">ATSC</a> digital television system for carrying <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> about each <a href="/wiki/Communication_channel" title="Communication channel">channel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting">broadcast</a> <a href="/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream" title="MPEG transport stream">MPEG transport stream</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Television_station" title="Television station">television station</a> and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch by title and description. Its FM radio equivalent is <a href="/wiki/Radio_Data_System" title="Radio Data System">Radio Data System</a> (RDS). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Function">Function</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Program_and_System_Information_Protocol&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Function"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="What_PSIP_does"></span> PSIP defines <a href="/wiki/Virtual_channel" title="Virtual channel">virtual channels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Television_content_rating_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Television content rating systems">content ratings</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Electronic_program_guide" title="Electronic program guide">electronic program guides</a> with <a href="/wiki/Title" title="Title">titles</a> and (optionally) descriptions to be decoded and displayed by the <a href="/wiki/ATSC_tuner" title="ATSC tuner">ATSC tuner</a>. </p><p>PSIP can also send: </p> <ul><li>the exact <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> referenced to <a href="/wiki/UTC" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC">UTC</a> and <a href="/wiki/GPS_time" class="mw-redirect" title="GPS time">GPS time</a>;</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">short name</a>, which some stations use to publish their callsign. A maximum of seven characters can be used in a short name.</li></ul> <p>PSIP is defined in ATSC standard <b>A/65</b>, the most recent revision of which is <b>A/65:2013</b>, published in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-A_65_2013_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_65_2013-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>A/69</b> is a recommended practice for implementing PSIP in a television station.<sup id="cite_ref-A_69_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_69-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PSIP also supersedes the <b>A/55</b> and <b>A/56</b> protocol methods of delivering program guide information (which the ATSC has deleted). <a href="/wiki/TV_Guide_On_Screen" class="mw-redirect" title="TV Guide On Screen">TV Guide On Screen</a> is a different, proprietary system provided by <a href="/wiki/Datacasting" title="Datacasting">datacasting</a> on a single station, while PSIP is required, at least in the United States, to be sent by every digital television station. </p><p>PSIP information may be passed through the <a href="/wiki/Airchain" title="Airchain">airchain</a> using proprietary protocols or through use of the <i>Programming Metadata Communication Protocol</i> metadata scheme. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Programming_Metadata_Communication_Protocol">Programming Metadata Communication Protocol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Program_and_System_Information_Protocol&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Programming Metadata Communication Protocol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PMCP, defined in the Advanced Television Systems Committee's A/76B,<sup id="cite_ref-A_76B_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_76B-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides ATSC broadcasters with a standardized means to exchange system information (SI) among systems that create and manage these data elements. These systems can be outside Program listing services, program management systems, traffic (commercial and program scheduling) and <a href="/wiki/Broadcast_automation" title="Broadcast automation">broadcast automation</a> systems, which all contribute a portion of the PSIP data to a PSIP Generator. </p><p>At the heart of PMCP is an <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> Schema (actually a collection of XML Schema Definition files), which provide a standardized structure into which PSI and PSIP-related data may be exchanged. PMCP does not dictate systems' internal database structures; it is simply a platform-independent protocol for the exchange of data.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PMCP was first published as A/76 in November 2004,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and enjoys adoption from a variety of broadcast equipment and system vendors. Two revisions (largely backwards-compatible) with the standard have been made. 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