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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

TDA Council debuts to accelerate analog blackout

The General Coordinator, Gonzalo Carvajal, yesterday participated in the virtual meeting of the Senate Systems, Media and Freedom of Expression Commission where he reported that the Argentine Council of Digital Terrestrial Television will meet today for the first time at 3:30 p.m.

The agency will provide advice and determine which signals will be integrated into the grid. It will be chaired by the Media Secretariat and made up of the Cabinet Headquarters, the Ministry of Public Innovation, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Productive Development.

"The agenda is to improve the quality of transmission but also to coordinate the analog blackout with Public Innovation and Enacom "that has a date for August 2021," he said. The objective is that "100% of the natural and legal persons capable of transmitting are turned on and begin to evaluate which region of Argentina can begin this process", Carvajal stated. They will also address the channel grid and contests that are pending approval.

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