Digital television in Norway
- Digital television in Norway
The introduction of DVB-T is regulated by the ministry of culture and church affairs. So far Norway has developed slowly on DVB-T compared to main European countries, but pace is picking up as the Norwegian government now wants to close analogue TV broadcasting by 2009.
In June 2002, a 12-year nationwide licence, including the roll-out of infrastructure, was publicly announced, met only by the application of Norges Televisjon (NTV), a joint venture between the state-owned broadcaster NRK and the leading private broadcaster TV 2.
In February 2004, the Norwegian parliament passed the final regulations on digital broadcasting to the ministry of culture and church affairs, [ [http://kkd.dep.no Kultur- og kirkedepartementet - regjeringen.no ] ] leaving the ministry to create a licence agreement for NTV. The ministry showed their proposal for a licence in December 2004.
NTV was faced with more complicated regulations than they expected (such as the licence running already from roll-out of infrastructure). Therefore, in February 2005 NTV applied for extending their licence period from 12 yrs to 15 yrs, and consequently the ministry publicly announced the licence once again, announcement period expiring May 2, 2005. [http://odin.dep.no/kkd/norsk/tema/p30006112/043061-990102/dok-bn.html] If licence is granted NTV during 2005, the company says it plans to roll-out infrastructure during 2006-2009, offering the Norwegian public between 15 and 18 TV stations; of them NRK1, NRK2, TV2, TV2 Zebra and a local channel.
The EFTA competition authorities, ESA, [http://www.eftasurv.int ESA] has protested on the application process, saying the ministry is not in position to grant the DVB-T licence to a state-owned company like NTV, but ministry says this protest will not affect their decision.
Norway will use the DVB H.264/MPEG-4 AVC coding standards.
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