Vladimir Putin will make all digital terrestrial TV channels free
The President of Russia has obliged pay TV operators to broadcast all digital terrestrial TV channels for free. To this end, he signed a draft on amending the laws “On Mass Media” and “On Communication” . The bill was created by the Ministry of Communications in 2014.
The list of publicly available television and radio channels so far included only channels from the First multiplex . Now 10 channels of the Second multiplex will be made publicly available: REN-TV, STS, Domashniy, Zvezda, Spas, Sport-Plus (produced by NTV-Plus), TV-3, TNT, "World" and "Muz-TV." In the future we plan to add channels from other multiplexes.
Pay-TV operators will not be allowed to make changes to the signal of the broadcast channels. The operator of the public mandatory television and radio channels is still the state-owned enterprise “Russian Broadcasting Network” ( RTRS ). Subsequently, for free channels he will be appointed by the president.
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Now operators often take the signal of public channels from the air. Now it will be allowed only if there is no technical opportunity to join the RTRS network, CNews reports .
“It is completely incomprehensible how the operators will have to join the RTRS network and why this is necessary. The essence of broadcasting is that it can be received and relayed in cable networks - this is the essence of collective reception systems, which are now outlawed. This will require very significant costs for operators. A huge number of small and medium-sized operators will have to build expensive communication lines or rent expensive communication channels. We opposed and, I think, we will take further action to prevent these norms of the law from being applied, ” said Mikhail Silin, Vice President of the Cable Television Association of Russia (AKTR).
He also believes that such a step will significantly reduce the reliability of reception and increase the cost of services for the end user.
The list of publicly available television and radio channels so far included only channels from the First multiplex . Now 10 channels of the Second multiplex will be made publicly available: REN-TV, STS, Domashniy, Zvezda, Spas, Sport-Plus (produced by NTV-Plus), TV-3, TNT, "World" and "Muz-TV." In the future we plan to add channels from other multiplexes.
Pay-TV operators will not be allowed to make changes to the signal of the broadcast channels. The operator of the public mandatory television and radio channels is still the state-owned enterprise “Russian Broadcasting Network” ( RTRS ). Subsequently, for free channels he will be appointed by the president.
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Now operators often take the signal of public channels from the air. Now it will be allowed only if there is no technical opportunity to join the RTRS network, CNews reports .
“It is completely incomprehensible how the operators will have to join the RTRS network and why this is necessary. The essence of broadcasting is that it can be received and relayed in cable networks - this is the essence of collective reception systems, which are now outlawed. This will require very significant costs for operators. A huge number of small and medium-sized operators will have to build expensive communication lines or rent expensive communication channels. We opposed and, I think, we will take further action to prevent these norms of the law from being applied, ” said Mikhail Silin, Vice President of the Cable Television Association of Russia (AKTR).
He also believes that such a step will significantly reduce the reliability of reception and increase the cost of services for the end user.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/292582/
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