DTT can have four channels from July – TVI24

The Minister of Culture, Luís Castro Mendes ensured the viability of the inclusion of four new channels on DTT, based on studies commissioned to Altice – owning company of PT Portugal and responsible for managing the TDT.

Of these four channels, two will be for the RTP, which has defended the intention to put RTP memory and RTP3 open signal.

Castro Mendes added that the government has a ” open dialogue with the private to provide them with the other two channels. “

that is, the total will be four more channels to DTT platform which is managed by Meo, PT Portugal, and currently available in free signal BBC1, RTP 2, SIC, TVI and Parliament channel.

the audiovisual signal distribution service currently allows free access of the Portuguese RTP, SIC, TVI and the Parliament channel.

According to the leader of the Left Bloc, Catarina Martins, the approval of the law to increase the offer on DTT will give “a new impetus to the digital TV” and protect televisions “excessive charges” for the transmission of signal.

next week will be approved a bill that brings together the contributions of bE, PS, PCP and PEV, for enlargement of channels on digital terrestrial television (DTT).

With this project, RTP puts the immediate two channels on DTT, improves signal quality throughout the country and give a new impetus to digital television protecting televisions, public and private, of over-charging for transmitting a digital signal “ , stressed Catarina Martins, told Lusa.

the Left Bloc presented in January a bill to expand the supply channels in DTT. This initiative was taken this week also by the Portuguese Communist Party [PCP], the Ecologist Party the Greens [ENP] and the Socialist Party [PS] in a joint initiative that the Government supports “ , he added Mrs bloquista. “Portugal has the worst offer channels on DTT at European level and, in addition, one million Portuguese households have no economic capacity to cable television services.”

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also the PS welcomed to have been possible to agree to the extension the supply of digital terrestrial television.

the conditions are created with this law, so that in July DTT be extended “ , he told Lusa the socialist MEP Gabriela Canavilhas at the end of hearing the Minister of Culture, Luís Castro Mendes, in the committee of Culture, Communication, Youth and Sports.