EU provides funding to support ASO
The European Union (EU) has agreed to provide funding to help with analogue switchover in Serbia and Montenegro.
In Serbia, the EU will provide funds for the acquisition of DTT equipment and for technical assistance, support and promotion of the DTT platform. Serbia has set April 2012 as the date for the completion of analogue switch-off, however, services have not yet been launched.
In Montenegro, the EU has provided the public service broadcaster RTVCG with funding for DTT transmission equipment and will also allocate further funds to help with the introduction of DTT services. Montenegro will use MPEG-4 AVC compression and plans to complete digital switchover by the 31st December 2012.
Source: advanced-television.com
Item added: 30th April 2010
Strategy for Switchover adopted
The government has adopted the Strategy for the Switchover from Analogue to Digital Broadcasting according to advanced television.com.
The strategy, which estimates the cost to fund switch over at between €87-115 million, requires an allocation of €75 million through international loans.
Broadcast network operator RTS is to be spun off from the public service broadcaster to form an independent company.
The provision of DTT receivers is also to be subsidise by the government
Analogue switch off is expected to be completed by the 4th April 2012.
Source: advanced-television.com
Item added: 20th July 2009
DVB-T2 seems unlikely according to RTS
According to a representative from the Serbian broadcast network operator RTS, it is unlikely that Serbia will launch its DTT services using the DVB-T2 standard.
RTS say that the government has not taken into account the realities of the broadcast market and the fact that RTS had recently purchased transmitting equipment suitable for analogue and DVB-T transmission.
RTS went on to say that Serbia urgently needs to upgrade its transmitting infrastructure and is already suffering from a lack of funding to make this possible.
Source: Digitag attributed to RTS
Item added: 1st June 2009
Serbia adopts DVB-T2
Serbia has decided to use the new DVB-T2 transmission standard for digital terrestrial broadcasting together with MPEG-4 (H.264, AVC) for its forthcoming transition to digital broadcasting. According to the report from Broadband TV News, Jasna Matic, the minister for telecommunications and information society, said that the country would complete its DTT transition by the 4th April, 2012 rather than the 2015 suggested by the ITU in order to be synchronised with the EU and neighbouring countries.
Serbia has become one of the first countries to commit to the DVB-T2 standard. The first was the UK which will use DVB-T2 this autumn for its all HD DTT multiplex.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 25th May 2009
Serbia troubled over DTT delays
According to its telecommunications and information society minister, Jasna Matic, delays in the introduction of DTT in Serbia would deprive local TV stations of a part of their audience and revenues to rivals in neighboring countries and make it a “black hole” in South eastern Europe. She added that the Serbian public broadcaster RTS will need the state’s help to make the digital switchover
Analogue switch off is expected to take place by 2015 in most neighboring countries.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 12th January 2009
Service added to DTT platform
The public service broadcaster RTS has launched a new digital service on the trial DTT platform dedicated to arts and culture. Other services already available on the platform are RTS-1, RTS-2 and TV Avala.
The trial DTT platform is available in the regions of Belgrade and Novi Sad.
Eventually a DTT licence will be allocated to a single multiplex operator responsible for licensing content.
Analogue switch off is expected to be completed by the end of 2011 and this is likely to be re-confirmed when the countries new digital strategy is announced in 2009.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 1st December 2008
DTT Pilot Project Launched in Serbia
The Public service broadcaster RTS, (Serbian Broadcasting Corporation) officially launched the countries first digital terrestrial pilot trial on the 10th May 2005.
Using the DVB-T standard the pilot will provide coverage of the capital city Belgrade from a single transmitter. The transmitted multiplex will initially simulcast the three existing TV programmes RTS1, RTS2 and RTS3 as well as four radio programmes. The remaining TV slot designated RTS4 will be used for special test programmes.
These pilot transmissions will enable field measurements to confirm coverage predictions as well as provide system operational experience. Later an additional transmitter and gap-fillers will be added to the system.
Source: Kompani
Added: 11th May 2005, Barry Tew.
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