New date set for analogue TV switch-off

Last Updated 13 years ago by Kenya Engineer

A new date for the analogue television signals switch-off has been set prior to the set date of September. The switch- off has now been scheduled for October 30 this year following an agreement reached by the Communications Commission of Kenya and Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek).

The process which is part of a global analogue-digital migration is behind schedule following controversy surrounding the set boxes which the consumer federation argued were too expensive for most households with TV sets.

Reports show that an estimated 4 million households have television sets. However, reports also show that as of May this year, only 252,860 PayTv decoders and 18,798 Free-to-air set-boxes which can transmit digital Signals had been sold. This means that over 3 million television sets will be switched off.

So far CCK has approved 26 models of set-boxes with second generation digital transmission standard known as DVB-T2  that replaced the earlier DVB-T.

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