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Senate Committee approves April 7th 2009 switch off

The Senate Commerce Committee has approved legislation to extend the U.S. Digital TV transition date to April 2009. The bill includes $3 billion for Read More

Broadcasters launch DTT promotion organisation

A new organisation the Asociacion Pro TNT has been launched to promote DTT services in Spain. RTVE, Telecino, Antena 3, Sogecable, Net TV, VeoTV Read More

Czech Republic - Ready for DTT launch

Official DTT services were planned for launch launch on Friday, 21 October according to Digitag. One multiplex will provide DTT services in Prague Read More

April 7th 2009, Senate date for Analogue switch-off

An April 2009, switch-off date for analogue TV has been proposed in a draft of the Senate Commercial Committee bill sponsored by the committee Read More

Malaysian digital TV trial program

Malaysia will launch a digital TV (DTV) trial program, in mid 2006, to pave the way for the national digitalisation drive, Malaysian Deputy Minister Read More

Coverage increased to 50% of the population

The DTT service coverage increased to 50%, from the previous 35%, on October 15th, when 17 new transmitter sites came into service. The new Read More

Finnish digital penetration increasing

A total of 785,000 digital television decoders had been acquired by Finnish householders by the end of August according to an article in Helsingin Read More

Cesky Telecom begins experimental DTT broadcasts

Czech telco Cesky Telecom, a subsidiary of Spanish telco Telefonica, has begun an experimental broadcast of TV Ocko in its DVB-T multiplex. The Read More

Belgium Update

In July 2003 regular DVB-T transmissions started with one multiplex in the Antwerp region. In May 2004 the DVB-T network was extended to cover the Read More

Poland seeks DTT debate

The president of the Polish Telecommunications and Post Regulation (URTiP) has proposed to the country’s National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) Read More

Free-to-air broadcasters slow on digital TV

An article on the web log Stuff.co.nz laments the slow start for digital television in New Zealand. Sky has been transmitting DVB-S programmes to Read More

Conference reviews DTT progress

At the Third National Conference on DTT held in Vicenza, Italian leaders discussed the current DTT progress and plans for the future. The conference Read More