Phase-1 analogue TV signal switch-off set for December 2013

Last Updated 13 years ago by Kenya Engineer

Kenyans living in the capital, Nairobi who haven’t adopted the digital signals for their television sets have up to the end of this year before their analogue signals are switched off completely.

The Digital Television Committee together with all relevant stakeholders have agreed to begin switching off the first analogue signals in Nairobi on 13 December. Other urban centres including Mombasa, Malindi, Nyeri, Meru, Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret have a deadline of 30 March 2014, and the rest of the country will have to switch off by 30 June 2014.

The country has since inception of the digital migration in 2009 approved 26 models of digital receiver.