With a 70% of the population now accessing to digital TV and more than 2.2 million distributed STBs, Cuba is moving forward tro the analog blackout, which is prevented to be implemented in 2023 in the Caribbean country. ‘However, there are limitations on which we must work before facing the last digital TV deployment step, [...]
The Nigerian federal government awarded the Chinese pay-TV company StarTimes a certificate of satisfaction when it completed its digital TV project for 1,000 Nigerian villages. The project supported by the Chinese government is based on one of the resolutions of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation of 2015, during which the Chinese [...]
Digital terrestrial pay-TV provider GOtv, announced plans to enlarge GOtv Maxs customer content offering in November with the addition of exciting new channels. As of November 13, the company said in a statement that customers of the GOtv Max package could enjoy four new channels, namely: TNT Africa, Discovery ID, Da Vinci Kids and Cartoon [...]
The National Broadcasting Commission reports that plans are underway to begin analogue switch-off in six localities, starting with Abuja next year.The Commission also announced that the federal government will issue a new timeline and schedule for the Digital Switch Over. Speaking at the 72nd General Assembly of Nigerian Broadcasting Organizations in Lagos, NBC General Manager [...]
The digital migration process in Togo will finally begin and the announcement was made last Friday by the parliament. The government voted on the current law regarding the legal regime applicable to audiovisual communications, which provides the legal framework for the creation of a digital global television platform. Eventually the text plans the creation of [...]
The government in Ivory Coast has announced that 40% of the country has now been equipped with DTT signals. The information was disclosed by Yeo Adama, Director General of the Ivorian Broadcasting Company (IBC) during a press conference in Abidjan. “We already covered 25% of the population. Currently, we have installed infrastructure in Bouaflé region. [...]
Thirteen years after the approbation of Digital Switch Over (DSO) by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Federal Government has not yet validated the N45 billion to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which has frustrated its take-off in the country. During an inspection of facilities at Gospell Digital Technology (GDT) factory at Calabar Free Zone [...]
GatesAir, a global leader in content delivery solutions for radio and TV broadcasters, has won a large digital TV broadcasting contract with Chilean public service broadcaster Television Nacional de Chile (TVN Chile), which stipulates a three-year rollout of 124 ISDB-Tb digital TV devices in key cities throughout Chile, with initial deployments focused on Concepcion and [...]
The Panamanian National Public Services Authority (ASEP) announced yesterday that the analog blackout’s phase I will be fully implemented next October 1st, 2020 in Panama, Panama Oeste and Colon provinces. According to the entity, the TDT migration’s phase I provinces have an up to 23 fully digital contents offer already available. ‘With this partial analog [...]
In Burkina Faso, private televisions will have to pay 75 million CFA francs of annual fees to broadcast their programs on the DTT platform. For two years now, discussions have been taking place in the steering committee of the DTT, compared to the cost of the fee that must pay the private television, to appear [...]