Digital terrestrial television in Denmark was officially launched in March 2006 after some years of public trials. The analogue broadcasts shut down nationwide at midnight on November 1, 2009.
As of February 2008, only one national multiplex is available, broadcasting
DR1,
DR2,
TV 2 and a channel shared by
DR Update and sign language simulcast of DR/TV2 news using the
DVB-T technology and
MPEG-2 compression in
64-QAM mode.
History
Pre-launch
In 1999, a trial was launched in
Copenhagen and
Zealand. Another trial was launched in 2002 on northern
Jutland, broadcasting the three public service channels and an experimental regional channel called "TV2/Nord-Digital".
In June 2005, a broad majority consisting of
Venstre, the
Conservative People's Party, the
Social Democrats, the
Radical Liberal Party, the
Socialist People's Party and
Danish People's Party agreed that the analogue broadcasts would cease in October 2009.
National launch
The official launch was made on March 31, 2006 after some months of national trials with one multiplex covering the entire country. It offered the national analogue channels
DR1 and
TV 2, as well as
DR2, a stream for signed simulcasts of news programmes on the three other channels and the
MHP services
DR extra and
TV 2 Extra. February 19, 2008,
DR Update started broadcasting on the simulcast channel when this channel was not used for simulcasting (between 17 and 20 o'clock). The multiplex was operated by I/S DIGI-TV, a
joint-venture...
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