The state broadcaster Namibian Broadcasting Corporation has introduced its first phase of switching off analogue viewing and moving towards digital terrestrial viewing in central Namibia, it announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has successfully switched off analogue viewing on Saturday night in the central towns of Windhoek, Rehoboth and Okahandja,” it said.<\/p>\n
This was done in collaboration with the two existing free-to-air stations, One Africa Television and the religious channel TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is the broadcasting of terrestrial television in digital format. Analogue viewing requires a large amount of bandwidth, compared to digital signals, which are compressed, allowing more channels to be broadcast on the same bandwidth.<\/p>\n
In 2006, the International Telecommunications Union decided that all countries in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Iran should migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting services by 2015 to free up bandwidth.<\/p>\n
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