The Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission says the country will likely miss the target 2015 end-date for analogue broadcasting. NTC’s head Gamaliel Cordoba, admitted that there simply isn’t enough time left to complete the exercise. “Right now, we are already putting together the ’Implementation Rules & Regulations’ (IRR). We are doing that all with the stakeholders, […]
Harris Broadcast, an expert in content management and network infrastructure solutions, has been selected by Indian national broadcaster Doordarshan to deploy a new DVB-T2 transmission infrastructure across the country. The government of India is pushing ahead with plans to complete the move from analogue to digital television transmission by 2017. As the leading public service […]
Spurred on by the plight of millions of lost TV viewers over the Christmas period, Kenyan judges relented and granted a 45 day extension to the government’s December 24 analogue switch-off of the nation’s Nairobi transmitter. The three appeal judges declined to give their reasons (which they will deliver at the end of January) but […]
Thailand’s National New Bureau is reporting that the nation’s formal auctions for 24 new digital TV licences will take place during December 26th-27th. The pre-qualified bidders will take part in the auction. Colonel Natee Sukonlarat Chairman of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) announced the plan on December 16th, saying that 7 HDTV channels […]
UK Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said radio broadcasters were too far behind to contemplate following TV into an all-digital future. Vaizey, speaking at the BBC, announced a range of new measures to boost digital radio, including a new national multiplex – which will mean a host of new national digital stations – and improved digital […]
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) has announced that the digital TV auction date will not be extended beyond January 11th 2014. NBTC broadcasting committee chairman Nathee Sukolrat has said that the NBTC will soon announce the official auction date of the 24 digital channels after it officially declared on December 12th that all […]
By any measure the changeover from analogue to digital amongst India’s cable MSOs has been something of a nightmare. Officially, India’s four giant ‘metros’ (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai) ought to have wrapped the conversion more than a year ago on November 1st 2012. However, poor planning, customer inertia and complex bureaucracy have combined to delay […]
Kenya’s High Court has delayed this Friday’s analogue switch-off at its main Nairobi transmitter. Justice David Majanja temporarily delayed the switch off by two weeks, to December 23rd, to allow more time for viewers to buy converter boxes, and for legal arguments to be heard. Kenya’s Media Owners Association, which includes TV broadcasters, are challenging […]
Kenya’s main analogue transmitters are to be switched off on December 13th but according to local reports this will leave “more than half of Nairobi’s more than 2 million TV homes without TV signals”. The report says that, as if often the case, lack of knowledge of the switch-over to digital TV is the main […]
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 […]