Nigeria’s federal government has expressed its “absolute commitment” to meet a June 2017 switchover to all-digital TV broadcasting. A previous commitment to a June 2015 date was largely ignored. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, told reporters in Jos, Plateau State, that the new deadline of June 2017 should be vigorously pursued by […]
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) says that its Phase III cable TV analogue-to-digital conversion process is going well, and that 90.44 per cent of homes are now converted. The Ministry says that cable MSOs and local distributors have supplied 12.43 million addressable set-top boxes in the period to February 15th, and up from […]
Analogue TV in Singapore will be switched off by the end of 2017 says the country’s Ministry of Communications & Information. MediaCorp, the group of commercial broadcasters in Singapore, started transmitting its seven free-to-air channel to digital in December 2013 but has maintained analogue transmissions. These analogue broadcasts will end next year. Singapore’s Communications Minister, […]
Brazil has abandoned plans to switch off its analogue TV transmissions. Girod, the operation charged with co-ordinating the adoption of digital TV, has decided to let the already ‘late’ date of 2018 to slip further to 2023. This means that Brazil will hold the unenviable record of being the largest and most important nation to […]
The Dominican Republic is not one of the world’s major TV markets (population 10.4 million) but its decision to delay adopting full digital terrestrial TV until 2021 is something of a surprise. The official announcement was issued by the country’s Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) saying, via a formal Decree, that the extended deadline allows time […]
India’s Phase 3 cut-off date for an all-digital cable broadcasting environment was on December 31st. The nation’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting says that 86.25 per cent of TV homes have been digitised as part of the Digital Addressable System (DAS) Phase 3 stage of the country’s drive to all-digital transmission. But drill down into […]
Cabinet, the most senior level of the government of South Africa, has approved the beginning of the dual-illumination period for the country’s digital TV broadcast signals. The period is set to commence on February 1st 2016. The dual-illumination period refers to an interim phase during which both analogue and digital terrestrial television signals are allowed […]
Barely ten days ago the Mexican government had – seemingly – confirmed a December 31st 2015 switch-off date for their analogue TV transmissions. But December 3rd saw parliament’s upper house of senators reverse that policy, saying a December 31st date would leave “millions” without access to TV. The proposal will now revert back to the […]
Broadcast Networks Europe (BNE) – a trade body for terrestrial broadcast network operators for radio and TV in Europe – has joined other broadcast and satellite bodies in welcoming the long term regulatory security for terrestrial TV broadcasting and long term access to UHF frequencies which was achieved at the World Radio Conference (WRC-15) in […]
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance – a global organisation advocating for laws and regulations that will lead to more efficient and effective spectrum utilisation – has joined a range of satellite and broadcasting industry bodies in supporting the decision made at the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) to maintain the ITU’s primary allocation […]