Slovakia ends DVB-T2 tests

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Slovakia ends DVB-T2 tests

07.56 Europe/London, October 31, 2011 By Chris Dziadul

The Slovak national transmission Towercom has now ended DVB-T2 tests that it began in August.
However, according to the company’s marketing director Michal Suran, quoted by Zive, it plans to ask for a further temporary permit or for new permits to continue the tests.
The DVB-T2 tests began in Bratislava and were subsequently extended to a transmitter located at Borskom Mikulasi.
Although they initially involved FTA channels, some were subsequently encrypted.
The channels tested were Doku CS, Kino CS, Muzika CS, Travel Channel HD, Viasat Explorer and Viasat Nature, the first four of which were broadcast in MPEG-4.

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Viasat adds to Baltic pay-TV offer



Viasat Broadcasting has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with the Russian commercial broadcaster CTC Media to distribute the international version of the CTC channel in the Baltic territories.
The channel – CTC International – will be broadcast on the Viasat DTH platform, as well as on third party cable and IPTV networks, in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from today (October 31).
It offers the most popular content from CTC Media’s three channels in Russia – CTC, Domashny and Peretz.
Viasat Broadcasting is a subsidiary of MTG, which is the largest shareholder (38.2%) in CTC Media.