This Thursday, November 18, Francis Lamy, Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes, and Eric Ciotti, Deputy, President of the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes, will hold a press conference on the deployment of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) coverage in Alpes-Maritimes.
Indeed, May 24, 2011, will mark the end of analog television and the complete and definitive switch to full digital. In order to ensure that the population of Alpes-Maritimes continues to receive television programs, the General Council has undertaken numerous initiatives as part of its departmental digital territory development policy for several years.
It is within this proactive policy framework that the departmental assembly has chosen to take charge, beyond the obligations imposed on TV channels, of installing 8 additional relays for the dissemination of DTT. This decision will allow the expansion of digital terrestrial hertzian coverage to provide 99% of the Alpes-Maritimes population access to digital terrestrial television.
For the small portion of the departmental population not covered after these installations, everything will be undertaken by the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes, the State, and their partners, the Higher Audiovisual Council and the public interest group France Télé Numérique, to ensure that no resident, wherever they may live in Alpes-Maritimes, is faced with a blank screen. Alternative solutions, primarily satellite, will thus be subsidized to support access to DTT.
