Mallam Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, Director General of the Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says that the Commission is committed to a timely and efficient completion the Digital Switch Over (DSO) project across the country as it will  create a people-centred information society which will connect underserved populations and remote communities in Nigeria and hence provide […]

Prasar Bharati, India’s public broadcaster, says it has already converted about 70 percent of its analogue terrestrial transmitters to digital. It adds it will have converted the remaining analogue transmitters to digital by March 31st next year. However, India will retain about 50 analogue transmitters for “strategic use”. The conversion task is considerable and covers […]

eMedia Holdings, which owns the popular e.tv channels and Openview services in South Africa, is taking the government to court over declaring March 2022 closure of all analogue TV services. Indeed, the nation’s communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has ordered that analogue TV end their broadcasts by January 31st. eMedia has filed papers with South Africa’s […]

South Africa, after almost a dozen false starts, will switch off its analogue TV transmissions by March 2022. The adoption of digital TV is some 10 years late and, while digital broadcasting is already a reality in some parts of the nation, it is far from nationwide. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa, following a cabinet […]

Cuba has delayed its digital switchover. Cuba’s deputy minister of communications, Ana Julia Marine Lopez, confirmed in an interview with a local newspaper that the nation has put off a complete switch to DTT until 2024. She blamed the delay on costs and the ongoing financial problems the nation is facing. According to Marine Lopez, […]