Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in Manchester on digital terrestrial TV to YourTV Manchester. The award follows legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on DTT. Licences are awarded for […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI is set to launch DVB-T2 broadcasts in almost all the provincial capitals with a new dedicated multiplex (number five) on VHF channel 11. This move follows tests conducted by RAI in Palermo and in Valle d’Aosta. The new DVB-T2 transmitters will serve the regional capitals, while the composition of the new […]
DigiTAG, the broadcast industry body that promotes digital terrestrial television (DTT) and protecting broadcast spectrum for broadcasters has published a new guide on digital switchover. The guide provides a comprehensive overview of the key regulatory, business, and technical issues that must be addressed for a successful digital switchover process. It also explores strategies for analogue […]
UK broadcast and communications regulator Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in London on digital terrestrial TV to ESTV’s London Live channel. The London channel is expected to cover around 4 million homes, the largest reach of all the new local TV services. ESTV beat four other applicants to the […]
Since the introduction of DTT in Portugal in 2009, a total of 1,553,000 decoders have been sold, according to data published by National Communications Authority (Anacom). The data, for the period up to August 2012, also shows that the Portuguese purchased 1,145,408 DTT boxes in the first eight months of last year. According to Anacom, […]
Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) has announced that, instead of one, it will now organise two frequency auctions, with the first offering 20-year licences for the use of three multiplexes for TV broadcasting, and the second reserved for telecommunications operators with frequencies earmarked for LTE/4G (mobile broadband) services. In a statement, the president of the Italian […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has awarded the licence to operate the new local TV multiplex on digital terrestrial TV (DTT) to local infrastructure co-operative Comux. The multiplex operator will be responsible for building and maintaining the technical infrastructure required to broadcast the 19 local TV services currently being licensed by Ofcom. The award follows legislation […]
Some 22 million Thai homes can now start receiving digital TV. Test transmissions started last week of TV5 following a huge investment in new transmitters and the supply of the first 1000 digital set-top boxes to shops in the greater Bangkok region. Officially, full transmissions will start later this year. Thailand trade association TETA (Thai […]
Bulgaria’s telecom watchdog has started the procedure for a tender for another multiplex after Brussels referred the country to EU court over the assignment of digital broadcast spectrum. Bulgaria decided at the end of December 2011 to hold a tender for yet another multiplex, its seventh, which local reports criticised. The European Commission demanded that […]
There is a huge uncertainty over South Africa’s adoption of digital TV. A ruling in December by a division of South Africa’s High Court found in favour of ‘etv’, a local channel, as well as public broadcaster SABC, that they could control how a digital set-top box was authorised. This was a blow to Sentech, […]