"Granite Broadcasting is joining with London-based Motive Television PLC to develop a system that can be used to broadcast linear channels and VOD programming to smartphones, tablets and other portable devices," reports our good friend Harry Jessell at TVNewsCheck.

The story continues, "Among other things, the Motive technology permits stations to broadcast movies and TV shows in non-real time to mobile devices that will record them for later viewing.To receive the service, consumers will have to attach a dongle with a DTV receiver to their devices and download an app."

The technology will be tested at Granite’s KOFY in San Francisco and at other, unnamed, Granite stations, the story says.