Determination under Article 3 of the Television Multiplex Services (Reservation of Digital Capacity) Order 2008

Title
Determination under Article 3 of the Television Multiplex Services (Reservation of Digital Capacity) Order 2008
Date
15 Mar 2010
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Ofcom
Category
Policy Documents
Subject
five; New Technology
Inactive
No
Description
Ofcom’s final decision on the reservation of capacity on Multiplex B for an additional High Definition (HD) service on Digital Terrestrial TV. In June 2009, Ofcom made a provisional decision to reserve a HD slot for Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd to provide new services on Freeview from 2010. This decision was subject to it resolving certain key criteria by the end of 2009. Channel 5 was unable to resolve these outstanding issues and the only other applicants, Channel 4 and S4C, were unable to provide confirmation of their ability to launch a service within a defined timescale. Ofcom has therefore decided not to reserve capacity for either of these applicants at this time. Any capacity within Multiplex B not reserved by Ofcom is available for the BBC to use. The BBC will now consider options to ensure the capacity can be used to provide High Definition services that will further benefit viewers of digital terrestrial television. This brings forward by around two years the date when it was anticipated that further capacity on Multiplex B would revert to the control of the BBC Trust.
Ofcom intends to give the Commercial Public Service Broadcasters another opportunity to apply to provide an additional HD service from 2012.

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