An apparatus and system to provide MBS transmissions are described. MBS-specific common resource pools are provided for simultaneously reception of multiple MBS transmissions. The pools have non/partial/fully-overlapped frequency resources in a UE-specific downlink BWP. A control resource set is associated with the pool to allocate the MBS downlink grant as well as the MBS data resource can within the pool. A slot contains multiple mini-slots that contain an MBS transmission, a unicast PDSCH transmission, and a second unicast PDSCH transmission for a different UE or to retransmit the MBS transmission. Control channel search spaces allocate different DCI formats in the slot.