The allocation of the so-called digital dividend for January 2014 will give rise to a second DTT migration in Spain that will require to re-adapt 1.2 million antennas in the country with an average cost of €20 per household. The total cost of adapting the antennas is estimated at €300 million and will not be […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has acquired Connect TV the connected TV service provider. The acquisition will enable Arqiva to develop a wide range of connected TV services for Digital Terrestrial Television, the UK’s most popular TV platform. The Connect TV platform enables broadcasters and content owners to use the Internet to […]
The Spanish Government is set to approve a new DTT technical plan following the recent agreement with broadcasters to reduce their DTT frequencies and the green light to the allocation of the so-called digital dividend. The new plan will see a new DTT map with broadcasters migrating to other frequencies as their present ones will […]
Brazil’s broadcasting giants are seeking to delay the nation’s digital switch-over until 2026. Under the current plan analogue transmissions are scheduled to cease during 2016. Brazil is already transmitting digital terrestrial TV and there are about 16 million sets in use with embedded DTT reception, and viewers looking at pay-TV satellite transmissions are using digital […]
The auction for assigning of surplus Digital Terrestrial Television frequencies in Italy is likely to be postponed for two months, according to local media reports. The previous 120-day deadline, set down in a government decree, expired on August 28th. The change of date is necessary as the new commissioners of the telecommunications regulator (AgCom) took […]
Spain’s Government and broadcasters have reached an agreement to mitigate the financial impact of the allocation of the digital dividend to be started in September and completed before 2014. The agreement will end up in the reshape of the DTT market following the private broadcasters have accepted to give up one multiplex out of the […]
The likely price of set-top converter boxes for South Africa’s upcoming digital terrestrial TV service has been dramatically cut back. Originally expected to cost around R700 ($83.60) they are now expected to cost nearer R400 ($48). South Africa’s director-general of Communications, Themba Phiri says the government needs to stump up an extra R2.6 billion in […]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has decided to extend by four months the reimbursement and subsidy programmes for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) decoders. Initially, the initiative was intended to run until June 30th. However, Anacom first extended the deadline until August 31st and now introduced a new extension until December 2012, in order for the […]
Findings from market research firm Dataxis suggest that in 2016, for the first time since television was introduced in Latin America, more people will be accessing digital terrestrial TV (DTT) than traditional, analogue free-to-air broadcasts in the region. By the end of 2012, Dataxis projects that there will be 12.3 million households actively receiving DTT […]
The news from Unterföhring, near Munich, home of Sky Deutschland, was much, much better than expected. CEO Brian Sullivan, fresh from his annual holiday, used the clever device of delivering better results than the market forecast, and the old corporate mantra of under-promising and over-delivering has worked well for him and his team. While the […]