On your box, get set…

In 2015, Sentech, the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor that carries channels for the SABC, e.tv and M-Net, will switch off its analogue television network. Satellite subscribers will, however, not be affected.

Sentech has already begun work on the migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT). The project, for which R205m has been allocated over the next three years, became necessary as a result of the high cost of maintaining the country’s ageing analogue TV network.

DTT, because it makes more efficient use of scarce radio frequency spectrum, will also enable Icasa, the communications regulator, to issue more terrestrial TV licences to broadcasters.

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