Ecuador’s telecommunications ministry has presented a new master plan for the transition to DTT in the country. The analog switch off will be conducted gradually, starting in 2020 and ending in December 2023. The plan was presented on Wednesday, September 19, by the Minister of Telecommunications, Guillermo León. It will be carried out following three [...]
Net TV, Argentina’s new DTT channel, which will be launched in October, announced its presence in the programming lineups of several pay TV systems, including Cablevisión and DirecTV, the country’s largest operators. In its official Twitter account, Net TV detailed that from October 1 it will be available in Cablevisión on channels 21 and 621, [...]
The University of Santiago de Chile has officially launched the new DTT channel STGO.TV, which is available 24 hours on frequency 48.1 in the Metropolitan Region, with educational and cultural content. “Today is a historic day for us, but it is also for the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Region, who now have a new regional, [...]
New free-to-air channel Net TV, which belongs to Perfil Network, will be officially launched on October 1 on the DTT platform in Argentina. The company recently announced the shows that will be available that day on the network. “Net TV has been working with enthusiasm, adjusting details to prepare the content of the new Argentine [...]
The president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, along with other national authorities, participated last week in the launch of digital terrestrial TV transmissions in Piura. Simultaneously, the DTT service also reached the cities of Trujillo, Arequipa, Cusco, Huancayo and Huánuco. All these cities are part of the Territory II of the Master Plan for the implementation [...]
The Mexican channel Multimedios TV (Grupo Multimedios) began its broadcasts on August 14 in Digital Terrestrial Television in the Mexican capital, Mexico City. It can be tuned in channel 6.1 and will have varied content such as entertainment, news and sports. Previously, it was in a testing phase. This beginning of transmissions is developing in [...]
According to a government press release, the Department of Communications has sped up to deliver digital migration benefits to residents of the Free State by teaming up with broadcasters including e.tv, the SABC, MultiChoice and Star Sat. Officials will be present across the Free State province to educate the public about digital migration as the [...]
Colombia’s National Television Board (JNTV) chose the city of Cúcuta to carry out a pilot test in the digital TV migration process, as part of the ‘Territorios TDT’ project. In this way, about 4,000 homes in that region now have access to high definition TV signal. During a press conference, Camila Villamizar, member of the [...]
Brazil will switch-off analog TV this Tuesday in the cities of Macapá (capital of the state of Amapá), Porto Velho (Rondonia), Palmas (Tocantins) and Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), which already have 90% of the population ready to move towards DTT. It was planned that three other cities – Rio Branco (Acre), Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do [...]
In Ivory Coast, Sidi Tiémoko Touré (photo), the Minister of Communication launched, on August 8, the construction work of the national network of digital terrestrial television (DTT). The event took place in the building from which Ivorian Broadcasting Radio (RTI) was broadcasting in Abobo. ”I’m happy to start the work. He is pleased to see [...]