Digital terrestrial, from 3 January new TV channels in the North

Digital terrestrial, the reorganization of TV frequencies will continue from 3 January, this time involving most of the regions of northern Italy. Citizens will therefore have to retune the TV channels to continue watching TV programs. This was announced by a note from the Mise. According to the new roadmap established by the dicastery of via Molise, Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy (except the province of Mantua) and the provinces of Piacenza, Trento and Bolzano will be affected from 3 January to 9 March. From 9 February to 14 March, on the other hand, it will be the turn of Veneto, the province of Mantua, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Emilia Romagna. The reorganization of frequencies has already started in Sardinia on 15 November and will be completed on 4 January with the other Rai channels (Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3 Tgr Regionale and Rai News). On 8 March 2022, on the other hand, the national television broadcasters will discontinue the Mpeg-2 transmission encoding and activate the Mpeg-4 encoding on the Dvbt technological standard throughout the country, which will allow viewing the programs in high quality only for those who has a TV that supports this technology. Until December 31, 2022, national television broadcasters will still be able to continue to transmit simultaneously with both codes, but the remote control numbers from 1 to 9 will contain the channels with the new code. the delivery of the decoders to the home of the elderly over 70 with an income of less than 20,000 euros, through a special agreement between the Ministry of Economic Development and Poste Italiane Spa Citizens who need to change the television or buy the decoder will be able to continue to request the bonuses made at the disposal of the Mise, whose resources were, at the will of Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and the undersecretary Anna Ascani, further refinanced with 68 million euros in the 2022 budget law. with the regions involved in the reorganization of the frequencies which will start on January 3 for coordinate communication initiatives aimed at extensively reaching all the municipalities concerned.