Namibia has switched off analogue TV

02/02/2015

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Namibia has switched off analogue TV --

Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:55

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On 1 February 2015, the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) announced that it has introduced its first phase of switching off analogue viewing and moving towards digital terrestrial viewing in central Namibia.

According to My Broadband website, the NBC announced that it has, successfully switched off analogue viewing on Saturday night in the central towns of Windhoek, Rehoboth and Okahandja.

This was done in collaboration with the two existing free-to-air stations, One Africa Television and the religious channel TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network).

DTT Commercial Manager at NBC, Ockert Jansen, said: Namibia is among the top four countries in the SADC region that have started with switching off analogue viewing.

The NBC s population coverage with a digital TV signal stands at 66.6 percent percentage, just below the target of 67 percent by 17 June 2015.

Namibia s analogue viewers must buy Digital Terrestrial decoders albeit at subsidised prices in order to view seven television channels including NBC 1, 2 and 3, One Africa TV, TBN, EDU TV as well as the soon-to-be launched Namibian music channel, This TV and 10 radio stations.

Source: My Broadband

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