The provision of terrestrial broadcast services using 3GPP technologies was enabled for the first time in LTE Advanced Pro Release (Rel‐) 14, in which the evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) technology was enhanced to fulfill a wide set of requirements input by the broadcast industry. During the Enhancements for Television (EnTV) work item in Rel‐14, several modifications were realized affecting system architecture, core, and radio access, which include, an interface to grant control to broadcasters to establish audiovisual services, an application programming interface for developers to simplify access to eMBMS procedures, or a transparent delivery mode with native content formats, among others. At the radio layer, dedicated carriers with 100% broadcast content allocation, and also new OFDM numerologies to support larger intersite distances in Single Frequency Networks (SFNs), were enabled. The most significant change was the so‐called receive‐only mode which enables devices receiving broadcast content without the need for uplink capabilities, SIM cards, or network subscriptions, i.e. free‐to‐air reception.In Rel‐16, 3GPP carried out a study item to evaluate EnTV Rel‐14 against the terrestrial broadcast requirements for 5G defined in 3GPP TR 38.913. Two requirements were detected as not met: the ability to support SFNs with cell radii of up to 100 km and mobile reception with speeds up to 250 km h−1. A Rel‐16 work item standardized further improvements while taking into account practical considerations such as implementation complexity and performance. The improved system is known as LTE‐based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast, and also with the popular name 5G Broadcast.