MEXICO CITY (25 / Nov / 2015) .- Sen. Roberto Gil Zuarth present an initiative for public, educational and cultural television have another year to transition to digital terrestrial television (DTT) , confirmed Tuesday Javier Lozano, president of the Committee of Communications and Transport of the Senate .
Lozano explained that the chairman of the board of the Senate presented an initiative to fix the impact the “blackout” analog in cultural and public educational broadcasters, including Channel of Congress.
The initiative proposes that broadcasters low power, public, educational and cultural have time upload your digital signal when they either possible in the course of 2016.
“What we’re trying to avoid is to revoke the concession will not do, because suspend operations without just cause, the cause of revocation fall,” he said.
Susana Solis, president of the Network of Broadcasters and Educative and Cultural Television transmitters of Mexico representing 59 stations in the country, said he will leave without coverage to 40% of the population where public signals arrive, as several broadcasters can not afford to upgrade their broadcasts digitally. To make the transition, the television network require three billion pesos, to digitize the complementary stations.
Meanwhile, the Communications Commission of the Chamber of Deputies agreed to ask the SCT and IFT information on the scheduled dates for the “blackout” analog.
The legislature sent an official letter to the President of IFT, Gabriel Contreras, prompting “The timetable for carrying out the” blackout “analog in regions that are pending and forecasts regarding compliance this year.”
On Tuesday, the IFT ruled that the last “blackout” Analog Local advance will be next December 22 in towns of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas, with 56 transit stations to digital signals. The other parts of the country it must implement the December 31, 2015.
Another job was sent to Mario de la Vega Grajales, CEO of Linking SCT to ask a progress report on delivering television and forecasts of compliance this year.
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