Ofcom has set out plans to ensure minimal disruption to both analogue and digital TV services during the switchover process. The regulator has published its draft code of practice Digital Switchover – Management of Transition Coverage Issues that sets out the steps it expects to be taken to ensure the maximum protection to existing viewers. […]
KPN to sell tower business to TDF
KPN is selling its network of 23 large transmission towers to French broadcast transmission specialists TDF (Telediffusion de France). In addition, one tower will remain the property of KPN, but will be managed by TDF. So far, no financial details have been disclosed. Prior to the Dutch national analogue switch-off, overnight on Sunday December 10 […]
Slovenia opts for MPEG-4
Slovenia’s Agency for Post and Electronic Communications (APEK) has chosen the MPEG-4 transport stream as the standard for digital terrestrial television in the country. The agency will shortly commence the DTT licensing process. The majority of other European countries that have so far announced their technical parameters have all opted for the MPEG-2 standard. The […]
Franco-German DTT launch in tune
German and French broadcasters will launch their respective DTT services along the Franco-German border in tune with each other, so viewers will have maximum benefit of the new services. On the German side this concerns DTT introduction in the states of Saarland and Baden, in France the departments of Alsace and Lorraine. The plan is […]
Swedish launch 6th DTT multiplex
A sixth DTT multiplex will shortly go live in the Swedish capital Stockholm and the areas surrounding Uppsala and Västeräs. The multiplex was initiated to carry the international service of the Finnish public broadcaster YLE and is scheduled to go on air in mid- March. Under a 40-year old agreement YLE is distributed in Sweden […]
Boxer passes 650,000 homes
Swedish DTT platform Boxer has reached 654,000 households. The pay-TV platform benefited from the digital switchover process by adding another 38,000 homes in the last three months of 2006. “Swedish households have for a long time been switching to digital TV via one of the platforms that are available and competition for those who are […]