Czech Republic completes switch to digital TV

The Czech Republic is the first CEE country to successfully complete the process of digitisation of TV broadcasting. The last digital transmitters,Tlusta hora and Plostiny in the Zlin region, were launched by Radiokomunikace on 4 November. The digital signal is currently available to 99.6 percent of population. Three digital multiplexes offer eleven TV channels and nine radio stations. In the period 2008 to November 2011 Radiokomunikace installed a total 69 digital TV transmitters and 100 repeaters. Total investments since the start of construction of digital networks in 2007 amount to CZK 1 billion. The completion of the project means also the start of another stage – implementation and development of the follow-up system DVB-T2, which allows broadcasting in HD. The company will be ready to bring the Summer Olympic Games 2012 in higher picture quality, it said.