Totana City Council has received a grant of 75,000 Euros from the Ministry of Economy and Finance to facilitate the conversion in the municipality of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), as reported by the Councillor for New Technologies, Juan Carrión.
This subsidy has been granted so that they can carry out a series of actions aimed at facilitating the call to switch from analog TV, which is that from 2nd April 2010 channels currently eligible in analog (conventional TV) will be received for display should be the availability of DTV receivers and having the necessary steps to receive those digital broadcasts.
Through the award of this grant is meant to cover three areas of action.
First, the DTT coverage, which aims to achieve the widest possible coverage of DTT in the town, trying to cover at least the same coverage you currently have analog television.
Secondly, it intends to connect to DTT, which introduced the necessary measures to ensure the smooth running of the reception of DTT in all municipal facilities, and third, public awareness of DTT.
This will involve actions to promote the migration of citizens to bring their televisions to avoid problems when performing the analog switch, and steps will be taken that bring this technology to the various groups that make up society, one is not trying excluded and can enjoy it.
The mayor of New Technologies has shown the importance of this transition, as "dramatically change the way we use television, enjoying more channels offered in analog TVs as well as possible make arrangements through television, in the case on having interactive DTT receivers. "
For good performance of such action, reported creation of a bilateral table experts from the Directorate General Information Society and the City, "so that there is a continuous channel to facilitate the realization of all the tasks mentioned above, given the importance and complexity of the project. "
