ORS has selected Neotion as technical partner for the launch of its new nationwide terrestrial TV service, called simpliTV. The simpliTV bouquet is based on DVB-T2 standard and Irdeto Media Protection. Austria already completed the analogue switch off in 2011 and ORS is moving forward to the next level by launching the first DVB-T2 service […]
Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) has unanimously approved the final version of the regulations for the DTT frequency auction. According to a statement by the regulator, the measure will now be forwarded to the Ministry of Economic Development, which is entrusted with the task of approving the invitation to tender and managing the process. The new […]
Digital support service at800 will be conducting tests to gauge how the introduction of 4G services might disrupt Freeview reception. Around 170,000 households in south London will participate in the test. The households involved have been contacted directly and are asked to report any problems with television reception from 15 April. The test has been […]
The future of Sportitalia 1, Sportitalia 2 and Sportitalia 24 is uncertain following the start of bankruptcy proceedings at Interactive, the company that owns the concessions of the Italian thematic TV channels. According to local press the company has changed name to Maroncelli 9 and transferred to EDB Media its assets and employees, however the […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has submitted a request to the Ministry of Economic Development and the Communications Authority (AgCom) to transform its DVB-H multiplex into DVB-T, so that it can be used for TV broadcasting. According to daily Italia Oggi, the request was filed in February by Mediaset’s transmission arm Elettronica Industriale. If the response […]
at800 – the organisation responsible for ensuring people continue to receive free-to-air television when 4G mobile services operating at 800 MHz are launched in the UK – has completed its first live test to help assess the extent to which digital terrestrial television platform Freeview could be impacted when the services are launched later this […]
A giant 1,223 ft high terrestrial tower, standing on Television Hill in Maryland and which covers the Baltimore-Washington DC region switched to Europe’s DVB-T2 (OFDM) digital TV transmission for a few hours in the early hours of March 27. The 800+ kW tower beamed out using an experimental licence issued by the FCC to Sinclair […]
Last Saturday at midnight (March 30) ought to have seen a large cluster of major Indian cities switch off their analogue TV signals. 36 towns and cities were affected. Unfortunately, not all went to plan. India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry admits that the conversion to digital TV is – at best – complete only in […]
Full-service provider Media Broadcast and German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Group have extended their contracts for DTT distribution to 2018. The long-term commitment of ProSiebenSat.1 ensures the long-term attractiveness of digital terrestrial television in Germany. The extended deal means that in addition to public service programmes and special-interest channels, the offers of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group will […]
Freeview has reported an increase in the number of households using the service on main-set televisions to over 11 million – its highest figure ever. The number of homes with Freeview on a main or second TV set is almost 20 million (76 per cent of UK television homes). Today also marks a change to […]