Zambia’s government has awarded its digital TV migration contract, worth $220 million, to China’s Star Software Technology Company, part of the StarTimes broadcasting giant. StarTimes chairperson Pang Xing Sing described the awarding of the tender as one that was setting the pace to accelerate Zambia’s terrestrial digital migration by the stipulated deadline of 2015. The […]
Digital UK has published a consultation on proposals for allocating channel numbers to HD services in the Freeview electronic programme guide. The consultation anticipates future growth of HD channels on Freeview and includes proposed updates to Digital UK’s channel number policy. The proposals within this consultation will not necessitate changes to current channel numbers. Digital […]
In a similar move to the UK, Italian legislators have determined that the nation’s mobile operators should bear the cost of installing filters to help mitigate potential interference to terrestrial digital TV reception from 4G mobile phone services operating in the 800MHz band. The Italian Council of State has approved draft proposals setting out how […]
Following the admission by John Whittingdale, Chairman of the UK House of Commons Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, that a Communications Bill was unlikely to feature in the government’s legislative programme for 2013-14, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has revealed that a Communications Green Paper – a […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has published the first status update of the government-backed Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) Taskforce. Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP announced the publication of the update in his keynote speech to delegates at the […]
UTECA, the private TV Association formed by Mediaset, Atresmedia, Veo and Net TV, is taking the Spanish government to court over its decision to revoke nine DTT channels on the grounds that it puts the Audiovisual sector “in an unprecedented situation with no legal guarantee”. Last March, the Administration decided to revoke the licences of […]
South Africa’s communications minister Dina Pule is complaining about the time being taken to get digital TV off the ground, and conditional access installed, in the country. “I am concerned about the slow progress of finalising the conditional access (matter)‚” Pule said at a workshop hosted by the National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components‚ […]
Despite the pressure on pay TV operators in Spain with subscribers in decline, a new OTT pay TV platform, called TotalChannel, is launching with an offer of 12 pay TV channels for €9.99 (Premium) and €14.99 (Premium XL) consisting of: AXN HD, AXN White HD, Calle 13 HD, Cosmopolitan HD, Fox HD, Fox Crime HD, […]
Ofcom has published the Digital Television Update for the 4th quarter of 2012. The update reports on the take-up of digital TV services in the UK, including multichannel and platform share. Following the completion of the digital switchover, this will be the final update. It finds that: – In Q4 2012, 98 per cent of […]
Venezuela has just launched a new terrestrial TV channel covering science, technology and innovation (‘ConCiencaa’). There are currently just 10 free-to-air digital channels (DTT) available, but ConCiencia’s president Nicholas Maduro says he expects the sector to expand rapidly to about 100 channels over the next 3 years. Officially, there is no DTT broadcasting because the […]