Five years! Aimlessly in the dark, without clarity, unfulfilled commitments Advances transition the analog to digital tv
More than five years into the introduction of digital terrestrial television (DTT), is disclosed a first official data on how many homes in our country have digital TV
Five years! Aimlessly in the dark, without clarity, unfulfilled commitments Advances transition the analog to digital tv.
The newsletter 04/2010 of Cofetel Revealed that, According to the Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technology in Households, the INEGI, there are 3.6 million digital TV households, representing 13.6% of total TV households in the country. But he said of Those 3.6 million households, ie, less than half (1.6), are Likely to receive DTT broadcasts open, as in the rest of the equipment used by cable and satellite TV, games, videos.
Cofetel admits the obvious, that the penetration of digital receivers is still low, the which justifies the need to implement strategies to stimulate the acquisition of this type of TV. What are these strategies? Who Will drive? What resources? How the television INVOLVED? Why to take action now and not before? You inform us That body, hopefully not in 2015.
While in the United States ceased to exist Analog TV in Mexico is only just thinking about what to do with DTT. And seems a to be no rush, no government or some operators. The concessions of the two main broadcasters endorsed were the resource persons, as a result of political agreement TDT (July 2, 2004), until 2021, the year set for analogue switch-off, but this date Further Could be extended if market conditions are not Appropriate.
A as we go, the switch-off Will occur in 2030, 2040 or 2050, for the lack of incentives and information. According to the agreement Referred to the Advisory Committee for Digital Broadcasting Technologies, comprising three representatives from government and three of the radio and TV cameras (two of Them, indeed, of Televisa), is required to assess the development of DTT, considering Such factors as investments, the receiver market, market advertising, surveys, censuses and projections, ratings and more.
This committee must give the holder of the SCT since 2007 an annual report on the introduction of DTT, Satellite Direct with the Recommendations needed to bring the transition process. The secretariat, in turn, Had to publish an online version of the report with information That Is Considered public in terms of the transparency law. To date, no public information about these reports (will there be, Perhaps?), Except for That table includes a digital stations broadcasting in digital have Begun.
The misinformation is compounded by the lack of companies to Accelerate the transition. Televisa, for example, was committed to digital broadcasting in the cities of Villahermosa, Merida, Morelia, Uruapan, San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, as of December 15, 2009. In 2008 he changed his mind and asked the Cofetel modify the concession titles of the repeater channel 2 in five of Those seats and Channel 5 in two, to begin digital broadcasting in December 2015 in San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas and Morelia, in 2012 in Villahermosa , and even 2018! Uruapan. This means a delay of the between six and nine years at the time originally Agreed with the government.
According to Cofetel, there are 63 channels in the country already broadcast in digital. Of these, 45 correspond to the cities for the first period, from 2004 to 2006, Considered in the digital TV policy agreement: DF, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Reynosa.
The rest of the channels are in Toluca, Perote, Puebla, Querétaro, Sabinas Hidalgo, Leon, Cerro Culiacan, Torreon, Hidalgo del Parral and Durango. Based on the agreement Referred to the second period, Should cover the between 2006 and 2009 the cities with more than a million and half people. According to INEGI enter only three cities in this approach: Puebla, Toluca and León, in Addition to Tijuana, already Considered in the first period. That this means you have exceeded the coverage very easily, Because original too Ambitious goals were the resource persons.
TV Azteca is the company That has been in operation more digital channels, even ahead of the periods set out in the agreement, while Televisa has chosen to conform to the official calendar, and if We RELY on the list, has breached an obligation to take digital presence in Toluca and Puebla. We must also Recognize That the launch of HiTV, the Ajusco television, put the issue of DTT in the level of importance, it Should always have.
Good news. As uamero I feel very happy with the decision to approve Cofetel the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) has its own radio station. The assigned channel is 94.1 FM. Although Will it be low power, the advent of digitization Will allow the station can be Heard throughout the capital Hector Villarreal Will be the new undersecretary of Standards in the Interior Ministry Media. His awareness of the need to update the legal framework for the media industry and Their paid experience in this area.