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DTT progress

Poland’s Analogue Switch Off (ASO) is now likely to take place on the 31st July 2013 reports Chris Dziadul of Broadband TV News. Crediting the Read More

Free-to Air DTT on air by end of October

Ireland’s minister for communications Eamon Ryan has told parliament that digital free-to-air services from RTE will be on air by the end of Read More

NPA expects 1.4 million Pay-DTT households by 2012

French consultancy firm NPA Conseil predicts that Pay-DTT services will reach between 1.35 and 1.45 million subscribers by 2012, reports Rapid TV Read More

UPC starts DTT trial

UPC Czech has begun a DTT trial in Prague, reports Broadband TV News. The eventual aim of UPC is to offer its subscribers the must-carry channels Read More

Pay-DTT service for Minsk

Cosmos TV has confirmed the launch a 20 channel Pay-DTT service using DVB-T in Minsk from the 1st June. During the next three months the number of Read More

3D transmission on DTT platform

The first Polish 3D TV trial on the DTT platform took place in Warsaw on the 15th May. Using the satellite feed of a football game from Canal + Read More

Commercial Broadcasters move to MUX2

The National Broadcasting Council in Poland has adopted a resolution that allows commercial stations to move from Multiplex 1 to Multiplex 2, a Read More

NRK go for HD only on the DTT platform

NRK announced, at the recent Telenor “Broadcast Day”, that it is to replace the standard definition (SD) feeds on all three principle DTT Read More

Europa 7 HD to launch DVB-T2 services in June

The commercial broadcaster Europa 7 has announced its plans to launch DTT HD services using the DVB-T2 standard on VHF Band III. Europa 7 will Read More

Tivuitalia to become a nationwide DTT Multiplex operator

Tivuitalia SPA, a company fully owned by Screen Service Broadcasting Technologies SPA, is set to become a nationwide DTT multiplex operator Read More

Licences issued for the 800 MHz band

The Telecom operators T-Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica O2 have all been issued licences for their own 20MHz chunk of the 800MHz band, following Read More

Two nationwide DTT licences on offer

The Estonian Ministry of Culture has announced the opening of a competitive tender process for two new nationwide channels on the DTT platform. Read More