<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div class="left-col" id="article-view" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; float: left; width: 560px; "><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Five EU states miss end-2012 target for digital switchover</span></font></h3><div class="byline" style="margin: 5px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; float: left; clear: none; width: 483px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <a href="http://www.iptv-news.com/2013/03/five-eu-states-miss-end-2012-target-for-digital-switchover/#" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; "></a><a href="http://www.iptv-news.com/author/beachj-2/" title="Posts by Jamie Beach" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; ">Jamie Beach</a> March 11th, 2013</span><div id="retweet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; border: 0px; float: left; width: 483px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1362636220.html#_=1363009256165&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iptv-news.com%2F2013%2F03%2Ffive-eu-states-miss-end-2012-target-for-digital-switchover%2F&size=m&text=Five%20EU%20states%20miss%20end-2012%20target%20for%20digital%20switchover%20%7C%20IP%26TV%20News&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iptv-news.com%2F2013%2F03%2Ffive-eu-states-miss-end-2012-target-for-digital-switchover%2F" class="twitter-share-button twitter-count-horizontal" title="Twitter Tweet Button" data-twttr-rendered="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; width: 109px; height: 20px; "></iframe></span></div></div><div id="article-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; border-width: 5px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); float: left; width: 560px; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last year is being hailed as a “significant watershed” for digital terrestrial television in the European Union, with 22 of its 27 member states achieving the recommended deadline of switching off analogue terrestrial television by the end of 2012, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Over the course of last year, countries including Ireland, the UK, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and the Slovak Republic hit the recommended deadline. Other European nations which are not formally part of the EU like Croatia, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland have also completed analogue switch-off.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Switch-off should also be completed in Greece, Poland and Bulgaria this year, while Hungary should do so in 2013 or 2014 (along with the “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Bosnia and Herzegovina).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Albania, Romania, Russia, Montenegro and Turkey have planned to complete the process in 2015, enabling them to meet the June 2015 deadline of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) GE-06 agreement.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Read on</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; 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