The Republic or Ireland will net a windfall of up to €533 million from the switch to digital TV broadcasts. Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte said the current auction of airwave space left free by the turning off of analogue broadcasts was officially projected to reap €185 million for the Exchequer, but he now hoped to […]
The UK has ended more than 70 years of analogue broadcasting today with the completion of digital television switchover. Olympic gold medallist Dame Mary Peters switched off the last analogue signals at the Divis transmitter, just outside Belfast and Freeview signals were boosted across Northern Ireland. Prime Minister David Cameron said: ‘The UK’s switch to […]
Over the past few weeks, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has been getting on with the job of awarding digital transmission licences for the Local TV applications. The new channels will transmit on Freeview. However, the big prize, that of content playout, transmission responsibility and accountability for the management of the national digital channel ‘Muxco’ […]
The final stages of the UK’s digital switchover will start on October 10th and be completed on October 23rd, when analogue TV services in Northern Ireland are turned off. Main stations at Limvady, Divis and Brougher Mountain, and 43 relay transmitters across the country will switch to a new high-power digital system for Freeview, reaching […]
South Africa’s Communications Minister, Mrs Dina Pule demonstrated its DVB-T2 digital terrestrial TV system for the nation’s local news media. The country’s commercial launch of DTT will take place in December, although trial signals are now being beamed. For almost the whole of next year the analogue and digital transmissions will co-exist, with plenty of […]
There has been a late surge in Irish homes switching to digital TV, with 50,000 making the changeover in recent weeks before the old analogue signal is switched off. But this leaves 150,000 of the 200,000 homes that will be reliant on digital TV needing to make the switch before the analogue TV signal is […]
Ruling out an extension of the deadline for digitisation of cable television beyond October 31st, India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has said Delhi is lagging behind other cities in this process. Soni has met with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and asked her to ensure that all households having cable TV connection install […]
France spent less than half as much as planned during its digital TV switchover, according to France Tele Numerique, the body formed to oversee the migration. French daily Les Echos reports that the cost will total around €150 million – significantly less than the government’s initial estimate of €320 million. The switchover was completed before […]
With the deadline for digitisation in India less than two months away, 68 per cent viewers have switched to digital television. The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry held a review of progress of the four metro cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai — that are expected to complete the digitisation process by October 31st. […]
French broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel is taking steps to increase coverage targets of HD channels carried by the multiplex R5 (TF1 HD, France 2 HD, M6 HD). These three channels will reach, by 2015, the same coverage as other free DTT services – about 97 per cent of the population, with 1,627 […]