From December, Swisscom DSL customers will get free digital TV: Swisscom TV light offers access to more than 60 TV channels, as well as 22 in HD. The introductory offer is automatically included in DSL monthly subscriptions, giving customers telephony, Internet and TV in a single package. In addition, Swisscom TV start customers will now […]
India’s information & broadcasting ministry has again delayed the analogue-to-digital switchover date for residents of Chennai, one of India’s four largest cities. Chennai should have converted all of its cable TV systems to digital earlier this summer, then further extensions were given to October, then again to November 5th. All these dates have been missed. […]
The Spanish government’s new DTT plan has been turned down by the private TV broadcasters – Antena 3 TV, Mediaset, Net TV and Veo TV – on the grounds that it will put the reception of all free-to-air DTT channels at risk. The broadcasters also severely criticised the fact that citizens have to pay the […]
The European Commission has proposed that Italian public broadcaster Rai and its commercial rival Mediaset should be excluded from the auction to assign surplus TV frequencies. According to Italian newspapers, this is the opinion of the EC on the regulations that Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) is proposing for the auction that will issue digital mutiplexes […]
The new DTT plan the Spanish government is finalising for approval before the year end will cost over 20,000 jobs, claims the Association of Electronic, IT and Digital Content Companies (Ametic). It says it will reduce the number of TV channels, limit the available resources to broadcast TV and the quality of the transmissions. Ametic […]
The head of Argentina’s Audiovisual Communications Services Federal Authority (Afsca), Martin Sabbatella, says every public broadcaster’s signals must be included in any Pay TV operator’s programming schedules. “Whoever does not do it will be breaking the law and will affect the right to information for millions of people”, he stressed. Sabbatella initially spoke about a […]
Portugal could have more than 30 Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels, some of them in HD, if the frequency spectrum vacated with the end of analogue TV is assigned to broadcasters, according to a report by local daily Correio de Manha. The National Communications Authority (Anacom) has asked the operators and the media regulator (ERC) […]
Over the past few weeks, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has been getting on with the job of awarding digital transmission licences for the Local TV applications. The new channels will transmit on Freeview. However, the big prize, that of content playout, transmission responsibility and accountability for the management of the national digital channel ‘Muxco’ […]
In agreement with broadcasters TF1, France Télévisions and M6, France’s broadcasting watchdog the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel has raised the coverage targets for the high definition channels carried on multiplex R5 (TF1 HD, France 2 HD, M6 HD). These three services will, between now and 2015, achieve the same coverage as the other free DTT […]
Mexico used a technology expo in Tijuana to start its digital terrestrial transmissions. Tijuana has about 1.7 million inhabitants, and initial tests started on October 11th, although formal transmissions will not start until 2013. Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón told delegates that Tijuana, because of its proximity to the US border, would be the nation’s first […]