Romania’s National Audiovisual Council approves strategy on transition from analogue to digital television

Romania’s National Audiovisual Council (CNA) has recently endorsed a Government draft decision for the approval of the transition from analogue to digital television and the implementation of digital multimedia services at a national level, according to local news agency Mediafax. Through this strategy, the National Radio-communications Company (SNR) will receive one of the five multiplexes to be awarded by the Romanian state for the transition to the digital terrestrial TV, with the obligation to re-transmit TVR 1 and TVR 2 public channels and also some other public TV channels using analogue transmission. According to the strategy, Romania will have to implement the transition from analogue to digital TV by June 17, 2015. In this matter, at a national level, Romania can implement four digital terrestrial multiplexes using ultra-high frequency (UHF) and one using very high frequency (VHF). The country’s communications administration ANCOM will collaborate with CNA for coordinating the transition from analogue to digital TV. CNA will also be responsible for: monitoring and ensuring the implementation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, of the audiovisual policies assumed by Romania and also the information campaigns about the transition process. CNA will also have to give the digital audiovisual licenses for digital audiovisual media services, in accordance with the responsibilities assigned by the law. An information campaign about this transition from analogue to digital TV will start from August 1, 2013, according to the Strategy. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com