Plans for Ireland's new digital television service, to be called Saorview, are moving ahead, with RTE appointing a company to test receivers for the new signal. The state broadcaster is continuing with plans for its DTT service, even though the commercial side of the project has yet to be agreed. Saorview is likely to become […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portugal Telecom has proposed to sector regulator Anacom that the DTT spectrum reserved for pay-TV channels is assigned to existing national broadcasters RTP, SIC and TVI to launch HD versions of their channels. The proposal follows Portugal Telecom's request for the revocation of its license to operate a pay-TV DTT […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Digital Terrestrial Television will replace the analogue signal on January 26 in so-called region D5 of Croatia (Istria and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County) where already 70 per cent of the population is prepared for its arrival. The analogue switch-off will involve the national broadcasters, although viewers in these areas will for […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The launch of DTT in Italy's Lombardy and Eastern Piedmont regions will be delayed from April to September. The Government aims to avoid the replication of the problems that occurred in Lazio last November. In view of the regional elections in March and the World Cup in South Africa the […]
Grass Valley is assisting Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) to make the switch from analogue to digital transmission by installing an advanced DVB-T network that features encoding, multiplexing, and nationwide distribution technology and systems from Grass Valley. The LVRTC is the technical DVB-T service provider for Lattelecom, the main incumbent Telco organisation in […]
Swedish pay-DTT project Dahlia TV, controlled by Air Plus TV, has decided to withdraw from the Spanish pay DTT because it doesn't believe it can generate sufficient business citing the delay in licensing and fierce competition from Mediapro through Gol TV, as the main reasons. The company, with operations in Finland and Italy, had announced […]
Portugal had 2.44 million TV subscribers at the end of September after adding 71,000 subs during the third quarter of 2009 with subscriber growth across all platforms, according to regulator Anacom. Cable accounted for 60% of TV subscriptions during the quarter, cable now passes 4.28 million households, compared with 4.19 million a year earlier, and […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Italian Government has allocated a fund of E53.5 million for promoting the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial in 2010. E12 million will be used for advertising campaigns of local broadcasters in the switch-off areas; E8 million will go towards activities to support the switch-off; E7 million are earmarked […]
Australia government is to build a free-to-air digital-satellite platform to extand reception of digital TV in rural areas. The federal government is committing A$40 million per year over four years to the service. About 247,000 households across the nation are expected to receive “free-to-air” satellite services.
InOutTV and Electra have entered into a long term partnership to offer broadcast and connected interactive television services to consumers in Spain over DVB-T (DTT). Nationwide service availability will commence from first quarter 2010 over InOutTV's digital terrestrial TDT (DVB-T) network. Launch will commence on zapper and PVR STB silicon free-to-air and Premium TDT solutions, […]