South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a number of amendments to the Broadcasting Digital Migration Policy relating mainly to whether the set-top boxes required to achieve the migration should have a control system or not. Among the criteria used to decide on this were the following: the need for speed on digital migration, especially to release […]
Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, is providing broadcast services on AMOS-5 located at 17°E for the Nedbank Golf Challenge, Africa’s top international golf tournament. The tournament is taking place from now until December 8th in Sun City, South Africa. AMOS-5 is broadcasting the golf tournament, often referred to as “Africa’s Major”, on […]
New Zealand television went all-digital at midnight on November 30th. The last analogue transmitters were switched off on December 1st. Broadcasting minister Craig Foss, helped by the project’s mascot, Seymour the Digital Dog, completed the process by switching off the Waiatarua transmission antenna in West Auckland. Next up is Australia, and the nation goes dark […]
Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has welcomed the November 26th afternoon of launch of the UK’s first local TV channel – Estuary TV- in the northern coastal town of Grimsby. She said that local television was an important part of a connected society. “Viewers consistently say they want local TV […]
On the occasion of UN World Television Day, ITU research shows that the world has witnessed a massive shift from analogue to digital television, with over 55 per cent of households with a TV now receiving a digital signal compared with just 30 per cent in 2008, according to new data from the organisation’s flagship […]
Hundreds of thousands of cable TV homes in and around Kolkata in India could lose their analogue TV signals tonight (November 18th) when the MSO’s are obliged to switch off their signals. The MSOs, led by SitiCable, are complying with the deadline set by media regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) which set […]
A group of UK radio station owners representing 80 commercial radio stations in the UK has published a strategy paper warning of the risks of a government-enforced digital radio switchover for UK listeners. In December 2013, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey is expected to announce Government’s plans and timetable for […]
The planned December 13th switch-off of Kenya’s Nairobi analogue TV transmissions is very much in doubt. The government’s Information Secretary Ezekiel Mutua said the nation’s Media Owners Association presented a strong petition against the December 13th switch-off in Nairobi which they said is unfeasible. “We expect to have another meeting November 1st where a decision […]
India is already embracing digital TV as far as its major urban areas are concerned. But the nation’s Phase III and IV scheme calls for digitisation to drill down to much smaller towns and villages. And the bottom line for India’s cable industry is a need for another 110 million set-top boxes or converters. India’s […]
Australia’s communications minister has warned the public to be ready for the imminent switch-off of analogue TV. Malcolm Turnbull reminded viewers that free-to-air TV in analogue will cease on December 9th 2013. “We are less than two months out from the end of the analog television era,” Malcolm Turnbull said. From December 10th, free-to-air TV […]