DVB will have another channel – Money.pl

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New DTT multiplex is not entirely dedicated to TVP – announced during a meeting of the parliamentary committee, Krzysztof Luft of the National Council of Radio and Television. NBC verified position in relation to the displeasure of commercial broadcasters.

The National Council at the end of June. decided to allocate another multiplex digital terrestrial television for the public broadcaster. Commercial broadcasters, however, protested this decision in the public consultation. By the end of October. The National Council has time to consider the opinion of the senders and verify its position. Luft at the meeting of the parliamentary committee of administration and digitization assured, however, that the new concept will take into account the purpose MUX 8 in total for the Polish Television.

– There were a lot of divergent opinions of our position on purpose multiplex only TVP – said on Thursday Luft. He added that NBC has not yet developed a decision on the matter, but leans towards the fact that the it should not be exclusively Polish TV channels . will present a concept that will correct those post and will not be provided for the purpose of this entire multiplex for Polish Television – said Luft.

In the opinion of the National Council of channels should be free, it must also resign from the use of the latest DVB-T2, because no receivers adapted to its reception.

The name of the MUX 8 are defined frequency range 174-230 MHz. Starting eighth multiplex would extend the offer for another terrestrial TV channels – depending on the quality of three to eight.

So far launched three areas multiplexes, of which a total of 24 programs are broadcast, two in HD. Polish Television devoted entirely MUX 3 also launched a multiplex paid, the operator of the MUX 4 is a Group Digital Polsat.

The development of a new frequency band launched the company Emitel, the operator of terrestrial radio and television infrastructure, which in October 2013 r. applied to the Office of Electronic Communications reserve the whole band. In accordance with the provisions of the President of UKE announced the availability of frequencies and called on other parties to express interest MUX 8 of 18 companies came forward, so that the UKE announced that the interest exceeded the available spectrum resources, and found it necessary to hold a contest for their development. According to the telecommunications law decision by the competition should take place by the end of June.