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Four out of six commercial cities have DVB-T

In Nigeria, four out of the country's six commercial cities now have digital TV transmission, according to Abayomi Olaiya Bolarinwa, Nigeria's Read More

NZ Freeview hits 1m viewers

Freeview’s latest sales figures show that more than half a million of New Zealand‚s 1.6 million TV households are receiving Freeview free to air Read More

Makedonska Radiodifuzija invests EUR 6 million in DTT

Macedonian public broadcasting company Makedonska Radiodifuzija has announced that contracts for digital and microwave links, as well as for the Read More

STB subsidy reduced

Lithuanian govt cuts subsidies for DTT set-top boxes The Lithuanian Ministry of Finance has decided to reduce the funding available to subsidise Read More

Kenya to scrap tax on digital set-top boxes after EAC deal

Kenya has won approval from its East African Community (EAC) partners to remove taxes on set-top digital TV converter boxes, according to reports Read More

Iran to launch 8 DTT channels

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) is planning to launch eight digital television channels with various types of programmes. IRIB chief Read More

Analogue switch off completed

France switched off its last analogue transmitters in the Languedoc-Roussillon mainland areas and in overseas France French Guyana, Martinique, Read More

DVB Visits Latin America

In Bogota, Peter Siebert, the Executive Director of DVB project office and representatives of the European Commission, met with Diego Molano Vega, Read More

Oracle & Mediaset present DVB-GEM OTT at JavaOne Conference

At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco Oracle and Mediaset held a joint session about DVB-GEM 1.3 in the Italian HBB deployment. The presentation covered the new GEM OTT target of... Read More

ASO completed in East Anglia

Analogue switch-off (ASO) has been completed in the East Anglia region after the remaining analogue services in Norfolk and north Suffolk were Read More

Digital migration plan agreed

The Socialist government approved the frequency plan for the period between July 2012 and 31 December 2014 in its last cabinet meeting. The plan Read More

DVB-T2 pilot in Barcelona

Abertis Telecom has begun testing DVB-T2 broadcasting in the area of Barcelona for a period of six months. The tests are part of the European Read More