Head of Bashkiria held working meeting on digital broadcasting development

UFA, 20 November 2018. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. On November 19, a meeting of the Acting Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov with the Deputy General Director, Head of the Regional Department of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Rifat Sabitov and the General Director of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network Andrey Romanchenko was heled. The parties discussed the prospects for the digital broadcasting development in Bashkortostan.

The reason for the meeting was a launch of regional digital broadcasting in Bashkortostan, which took place today at the branch of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company – “Bashkortostan”.

As reported by the Bashinform News Agency, the coverage of digital broadcasting in Bashkiria was 95%. During the four years of the regional digital network construction, 216 TV towers were built. The cost of the transition to digital broadcasting was 2.5 billion rubles. According to the General Director of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network, Andrey Romanchenko, the entire digital network in Bashkiria was built from scratch and all 216 facilities are completely new.

The transition to digital broadcasting will be launched from February 11, 2019, due to the analog television shutdown schedule. The date of its completion is June 10. After the transition to digital broadcasting, the Russians almost all over the country will be able to watch 20 channels in high quality for free: Channel One, Russia-1, Match TV, NTV, Petersburg-5 channel, Russia-Culture, Russia-24, Karusel, OTR, TV Center-Moscow, REN TV, Spas, STS, Domashny, TV-3, Friday, Zvezda, Mir, TNT, Muz-TV and three more radio channels - Vesti FM, Radio Russia, Radio Mayak.

Read more about the peculiarities of the transition of federal TV channels from analog to digital broadcasting in the special project by the Bashinform News Agency.