Deployment of Ultra High Definition transmissions in France is continuing ahead of the Olympic Games.
Transmission company TDF says that after the completion of the sixth phase, more than 35 million French people can now receive the France 2 channel in UHD via TNT, or 52% of the population.
This Tuesday, June 11, broadcasting began for approximately 3.5 million inhabitants in Center-Val de Loire, Burgundy-France-Comté, Grand-Est, Brittany, New Aquitaine, Occitanie and Auvergne -Rhône-Alpes.
During this sixth launch phase, TDF has put 27 transmitters into service, including the emblematic TDF broadcast sites of Brest-Roc Trédudon, Orléans-Trainou, Troyes-Les Riceys, Bourges-Neuvy, Auxerre-Molesmes and Perpignan -Neulos peak.
Karim El Naggar, General Manager of the Audiovisual and Networks BU of the TDF group, declares: “On behalf of all the TDF teams, I am delighted with the continued deployment of Ultra High Definition on DTT, with our client and partner France Télévisions, and the milestone of 50% of the population covered with this sixth phase.”
Since January 2024, the first five phases of deployment had already covered, in part, Ile-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, Pays de la Loire, Brittany, Normandy, New Aquitaine , Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur as well as Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Réunion, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
Other transmitters will be put into service until July 2024 in order to ultimately cover around 70% of the population. France 3 will also be available in UHD from July 10 to September 10, 2024.
