Arqiva’s re-engineering of the UK digital terrestrial TV network has reached a key milestone as two of the largest transmitters complete Digital Switch Over. With the Emley Moor (Yorkshire) and Sutton Coldfield (West Midlands) transmitter groups completing today, along with Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme), the cumulative UK population switched to all-digital television has tipped from […]
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission has decided to modify its Digital TV broadcasting transition policy first established in 2004, and is now backing a gradual analogue blackout programme, which is expected to be completed in 2016. The Commission estimates that about US$1.3 billion should be assigned to subsidise the transition to digital broadcasting. According to its […]
Only about 3.5 million Mexican households, or 13.2 per cent of the total, have a digital television, complicating the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, the Federal Telecommunications Commission of Mexico (Cofetel) has said. The shift from analogue to digital television started in 2004 and was supposed to be completed in 2015 but has now […]
Test and measurement, broadcasting, radio-monitoring and radio-location specialist Rohde & Schwarz is claiming a new era of efficiency in broadcasting with the launch of its R&S THU9 transmitter generation at IBC in Amsterdam. Noting that in order to achieve higher levels of economy, broadcast network operators must reduce the energy consumption and infrastructure costs of […]
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission (FTC) has licensed a record 146 new digital terrestrial channels in the 10 months to June. The new services bring the total authorised DTT channels to 224. Mexico is scheduled to switch off its analogue transmissions in 2015, although this decision – decreed by the FTC – is under examination by […]
China is planning to serve some 200 million rural families with satellite signals, and switch off its analogue terrestrial signals by 2015. A pilot project tested the concept in the north and northwest of China in the Ningxia, Hebei and Inner Mongolia regions has paved the way for expansion to other rural areas, said Zhang […]
Australians are embracing the move to digital television with an average of 82 per cent of households across the nation already converted to digital TV, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has said. Darwin has the highest conversion rate so far of 89 per cent at the end of […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) permission to continue broadcasting analogue over-the-air television signals in 22 markets until August 31, 2012. This decision gives the CBC an additional year to find solutions for viewers who may lose access to its over-the-air signals after the transition to digital […]
Ghana’s Ministry of Communications says it is likely to switch off it analogue transmissions in 2013, two years earlier than the ITU’s target date of 2015 for global migration to digital broadcasting. However, not all of the nation’s broadcasters are keen. One, quoted by the BBC, is Ken Ashigbey who runs Multi-TV which supplies 10 […]
Television technology, including digital and HD formats, time-shifted and catch-up viewing, has helped drive a global increase in television viewing, a new report has revealed. The report – Television – International Key Facts 2011 – published by IP Network, the wholly owned international advertising subsidiary of RTL Group, analyses audiences, programmes and leading trends in […]