Pay-DTT service for Minsk
Cosmos TV has confirmed the launch a 20 channel Pay-DTT service using DVB-T in Minsk from the 1st June. During the next three months the number of channels on offer is planned to grow to 28.
The service is expected to be receivable within a 50km radius of the Kolodishchi transmitter.
Residents in the Minsk region already have access to 8 free to air DTT channels.
The state program for digital television states that by 2015 all citizens of the republic of Belarus will have access to digital TV channels.
Source: CosmosTV
Item added: 7th June 2010
Beltelecom to launch DTT service
Beltelecom’s deputy director general, Gennady Melnikov, has announced that his company is to launch a DTT service.
DTT is to be the next delivery platform for the company which already has an IPTV service. He went on to say that 80% of people in rural areas and 15% of the population of Belarus as a whole are potential DTT users.
The service, branded Zala, will initially cover 60% of the country and offer viewers up to 30 TV channels. Its coverage will rise to 95% by 2015
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 30th April 2010
Cosmos TV to launch on DTT
The Minsk-based cable operator Cosmos TV has finished its preparations for the launch of a DTT service, reports Broadband TV News.
The operator plans to offer the service to the existing DTT broadcaster users, providing them with a programme package consisting of 32 SD channels.
Cosmos TV was formed in 1993 and has operated a cable network in the Belarusian capital since 2001. This currently has over 100,000 cable TV and 50,000 Internet users.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 18th May 2009
DTT available to half the population
At the beginning of the year DTT could be received by just under half (46.77%) of people in Belarus, according to official statistics published by Cableman.
DTT was launched in the capital, Minsk, in July 2005 and currently offers five TV channels and one radio station. DTT services are also available in several other towns and cities including Grodo and Mogilev.
In the cable sector, the MMDS operation Kosmos TV is due to launch a commercial digital TV operation next month.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 16th February 2009
Digital Broadcasting Network to cover Belarus by 2015
By 2010, terrestrial digital broadcasting using the DVB system will be available in all the regional centres of Belarus and by 2015 the broadcasting network will cover the whole country, according to an article on E-Belarus.org.
The piece goes on to say that these, the objectives of the State Programme for Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting were adopted by the Belarusian government on February 16, 2006. At present, digital broadcasting is only available in Minsk.
Source: E-Belarus.org
Item added: 21st March 2006
Belarus to switch to Digital TV Broadcasting by 2015
In July 2005 the Ministry of Communication and Information, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance are to submit "The state programme of Digital TV broadcast introduction" for approval.
According to the draft programme technical and judicial regulations will be worked out during 2005-2008 as well as pilot trials some of which have already begun. Beltelecom will also install fibre-optic connections between TV broadcast stations in preparation for the switch to an all digital service. Equipment modernization will take place during 2005 - 2009 and by 2010 Belarusian TV producers Horizont and Vitiaz are to develop domestic digital TV receivers.
The government intend that DVB services will be launched in the whole of Belarus by 2015.
Source: RedNova
Item added: 14th July 2005
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Belarus launches DVB-T pilot
The Belarus National State Teleradio Company has launched terrestrial digital broadcasting for Minsk and the Minsk region.
The broadcaster launched a pilot project of four digital TV channels and a radio channel on 28 December, 2004, at a cost of €312,000, according to the deputy minister of communications, Valdimir Teslyuk.
At the second stage of the project, digital terrestrial broadcasting will be launched in five regional centres. At the third stage, the project will expand to ten further regional centers, at a cost of €3m. The total budget of the project comes to €4.9m.
According to the government’s digital broadcasting development strategy, Belarusian state companies Horizont and Vityaz will launch digital TV receiver and DVB-T application production later this year.
Source: DMeurope.com 04/01/2005, Mikhail Doroshevich
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=5201
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