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Mediaset the Italian commercial broadcasting group has just issued its earnings report for the first 9 months of 2010 which show that revenues from Read More
On the nights of the 15th and 16th November the regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, will switch to digital. After the switch 10 regions will Read More
The Council of Ministers has issued a decision to use the excess funds accumulated by the Communications Regulatory Agency to fund a part of a Read More
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced that the Government has partnered with Read More
The UK public broadcaster the BBC’s flagship channel BBC One began simulcasting in HD on the evening of the 3rd November. The new channel is Read More
HDTV services transmitted via DVB-T2 were officially launched on the 1st November 2010. At launch two multiplexes began HD broadcasting to two Read More
The launch of the latest two La Sexta’s channels, La Sexta 3 and La Sexta HD, has completed the picture for nationwide DTT channels across Spain. Read More
A new general interest digital terrestrial channel Canal 13 TV will launch as a free-to-air service on the multiplex from Unidad Editorial later Read More
The South African Digital Broadcasting Association (SADIBA) has released data supporting the adoption of DVB-T and DVB-T2, over the Brazilian Read More
T-Mobile’s Dutch ISP, Online.nl, has launched a triple play package which offers broadband access, telephone and Digital Terrestrial Television. Read More
DVB-T2 will be introduced to all television channels in Sri Lanka by the year 2015. The Secretary to the Ministry Mass Media said that the DVB-T2 system is already used in Europe and a Committee appointed to look into the eligibility of its use in Sri Lanka has confirmed that it could be used for local TV channels. By the year 2015 all TV stations in the island will function with the DVB-T2 system. Read More
The recently started DVB-T2 trial in South Africa is going very well and is currently transmitting 18 channels over Johannesburg. The Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association (SADIBA) has released data supporting the adoption of DVB-T2 or DVB-T over the ISDB-T system. The comparison concludes that DVB-T is slightly better than ISDB-T and that DVB-T2 outperforms both "by leaps and bounds". Read More
