The French media authority CSA has announced the 10 ‘pilot cities’ in which it will first switch off all analogue terrestrial transmissions at the end of this year and beginning of 2009. All selected cities have around 10,000 inhabitants and are served by a single transmitter.
The first few cities will act as a pilot to see what the consumer reactions to the switch-over will be. It will help fine tune the procedure when other regions will be switched off, region by region, until the final cut-off date in 2012 when no more analogue terrestrial broadcasts will take place in France.
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