University of Chile decides to migrate to digital television … – Daily and Radio Uchile

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Rodrigo Alarcon | Tuesday July 14, 2015 20:47 hrs <. /> p>

The Rector Ennio Vivaldi submitted a formal request to the National Council of Television for frequencies has our university to be transferred the new system.

The Rector of the University of Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, presented on Monday a request to the National Television Council (CNTV) for television broadcasting frequencies are reserved in the UHF band, which serve for transmission of new digital TV.

Our house has its own frequency studies in the main 28 cities in Chile, Thanks to a 1970 law that granted perpetual right to a concession. In 1993 he gave private comodatoa and today the sign is used by Chilevisión, controlled by the Turner group channel, thanks to an agreement valid until 2018 and renewable for another 25 years.

On April 15, the Official Journal published the Plan of television broadcasting, which governs the transfer from the current system to the new scenario. Along with that, the CNTV opened the application period for owners of broadcast TV concessions were asked the transfer of its frequency band from analog to digital.

The deadline was Monday, the day that our university formalized determining migrate to digital TV, which was previously approved by the Board and the University Senate.

The concession in digital technology is granted for a period of 20 years, renewable successively for the same period.

The Vice-Chancellor of Extension and Communication, Faride Zerán, said that “a common concern, reiterated in recent years within our university, has been thinking about the need for the Universidad de Chile retransmit its contents across the country as part of a university television contribution from the plurality of its various disciplines and the enrichment of public space “.

On the other hand, when I posited the office, the Rector Ennio Vivaldi had publicly expressed his desire that the University of Chile to have several media, including a television channel.

“I imagine a university in Chile do not only have excellent radio as it and its electronic newspaper, which also has a television channel, which has other means, which is permanently lead in large projects for the country, “ said in an interview to Radio Universidad de Chile.