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Several French broadcasters have already submitted bids to the CSA's for the six new DTT channels, according to AFP. Televista, which operates the Read More
The public service broadcaster ORF launched two new television programme services, ORF 3 and ORF Sport Plus, on the 26th October. ORF 3 offers news Read More
Multichoice Africa is rolling-out a full Pan-African DVB-T2 network with a total bouquet of more than 50 different channels in various languages over 15 countries. The GOtv Africa DVB-T2 pay-TV service is already on the air in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda and more countries such as Nigeria are expected to follow soon. UPDATE - Nigeria has now also adopted DVB-T2 and goTV services are already on air. Read More
DVB has introduced a new profile for its popular DVB-T2 terrestrial standard for lighter applications such as mobile TV: T2-Lite. Version 1.3.1 of the DVB-T2 specification document introduced a T2-Lite profile. This profile is intended to allow simpler receiver implementations for very low capacity applications such as mobile broadcasting, although it may also be received by conventional stationary receivers. T2-Lite is based on a limited sub-set of the modes of the T2-base profile, and by avoiding modes which require the most complexity and memory, allows much more efficient receiver designs to be used. Read More
Jampro Antennas have been awarded a major contract from Vietnam Television (VTV) to supply 10 DTV-ready antenna systems to its DVB-T transmission Read More
The decision to encode the Ukrainian DTT service provided by Zeonbud has come in for strong criticism. Quoted by Telekritika and Mediasat, Read More
TVN board member Tomasz Berezowsk, speaking during a panel discussion at this year’s PIKE conference, announced dates for the analogue switch off Read More
According to the earnings report published by the incumbent telecom operator TEO, over the last 12 months the number of the Company's television Read More
The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has launched a call for applications for six HD channels to broadcast on the French DTT system. Read More
French audiovisual regulator the CSA asked operators to suspend their LTE tests in Laval over the weekend of the 15-16th October to avoid Read More
In the most recent “7th DTT progress report” published by the Czech regulator CTU the coverage of DTT in the country is given as 100% for the Read More
Today, the DVB Steering Board (SB) approved two important documents for the ongoing and future work on DVB's standards. The SB approved the Commercial Requirements for a Phase 2 Service Compatible 3DTV delivery system and the third and final part of the DVB- RCS2 suite. More details and full press releases are available after the jump. Read More
