France - DVB

Analogue TV ends in Paris

07 Mar 2011

Analogue TV broadcasting will end on the night of 7-8th March for over 12 million TV viewers in the Ile-de-France region which includes Paris.

23 million households have DTT receivers

21 Feb 2011

At the end of 2010, 9 out of 10 French homes (24 million) had at least one digital decoder (satellite, DSL box, DTT or cable box) according to GfK

More regions switch of analogue TV

31 Jan 2011

Between the night of Monday the 31st January and the following Tuesday evening, two more French regions, Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Upper Normandy,

DSO aid extended to French overseas territories

21 Jan 2011

The CSA has agreed to provide financial aid to viewers in French overseas territories, to help them make the switch to Digital Terrestrial TV.

DVB-T2 and MPEG-4 likely to be introduced

12 Jan 2011

Eric Besson, the French minister of industry, announced during the New Year’s reception of the National Frequency Agency (ANFR) his willingness

CFoot allocated Pay DTT licence

20 Dec 2010

A call by the CSA requesting applications for a pay channel on DTT multiplex R3 has resulted in the award of a licence to CFoot. The proposal

DVB-T services launched in Oversees Territories

29 Nov 2010

The CSA have announced that DTT services using DVB-T will start in all French Overseas territories on the 30th November 2010. Guadeloupe, French

VOD services open for tender

29 Nov 2010

The CSA have invited interested parties to tender for spare capacity on the DTT platform which is to be used for VOD services. In France these

Burgundy and Franche-Comté switch to digital

15 Nov 2010

On the nights of the 15th and 16th November the regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, will switch to digital. After the switch 10 regions will

85.8% of French homes have a Digital TV receiver

25 Oct 2010

By the end of Q1 2010, 85.8% of the 27 million TV households in France had at least one digital TV receiver in the home, be it DTT, satellite,

Three apply for French DTT Pay-TV channel

25 Oct 2010

18 Oct 10 Pay-TV operators Canal Plus, TV Numéric and the country’s football league, the LFP, have all applied to operate a new pay-TV channel

Two more regions switch to DTT

18 Oct 2010

Two more regions in France, the Centre and Poitou-Charentes, will switch to all digital TV at midnight on the 18th October. This follows ASO

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