Italy - DVB

Pay-DTT service doubles revenue

20 May 2008

The pay-DTT service, Mediaset Premium, doubled its revenue from €45.3 million in Q1 2007 to €108.8 million in Q1 2008 according to Mediaset's

Tiscali Digital TV expands coverage

20 May 2008

Italian IPTV provider Tiscali Digital TV says that it will expand its service to six more cities according to Broadband TV News. Bologna,

Italy launches DTT tender

28 Apr 2008

Italy’s Communications Authority, AgCom, has given the go-ahead for the launch of a tender to award additional capacity on the country’s

Euro 2008 to be broadcast in HD on the DTT platform

08 Apr 2008

Public broadcaster RAI plans to transmit the Euro 2008 Football Championships on the DTT platform in HDTV making it available in the regions of

Sardinia to complete Analogue Switch Off in Sept/Oct

10 Mar 2008

Following the issue of a new frequency plan for Italy the complete switch off of the analogue transmission network in Sardinia and the complete

Commission set up to re-allocate DTT frequencies

11 Feb 2008

Italy’s Communication Authority (AgCom) has set up a commission with the task of selecting independent content suppliers and the national

Frequency allocations breach EU law

05 Feb 2008

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the Italian way of assigning broadcasting frequencies is against the law because it has favoured some

DTT receiver sales near 6.7 million

05 Feb 2008

The number of DTT receivers sold between February 2004 and November 2007 reached 6,697,516 according to research from GfK Marketing Services

Analogue switch-off in Sardinia agreed

22 Jan 2008

Italy’s communications authority has announced that broadcasters in Sardinia have reached an agreement on how to switch over to DTT. Three

DVB-SH trial in Italy

17 Dec 2007

Italian public broadcaster RAI, in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent and mobile operator 3 Italia are starting the first trial of mobile TV based on

Universal Conditional Access Module for DTT, Pay-TV

11 Dec 2007

Hardware manufacturers and Italian broadcasters have reached agreement on a Conditional Access Module (CAM), which provides support for multiple

DTT usage predicted to be 50% by 2010