French nets pledge digital switch support

April 23, 2008 The networks stated their agreement with broadcast regulator the CSA's recently published plan to facilitate the gradual move from analog to digital, emphasizing the urgency of effecting the changes by 2009 in order to ensure the completion of the process by November 2011 as planned. The networks highlighted their opinion that "it would be dangerous to wait" until the CSA has decided which networks will be selected for the country's new DTT platform before starting the process of the "extinction" of analog TV. The CSA's plan calls for a complete extermination of analog TV in two, yet-to-be-determined regions in the country followed by a region-by-region removal of analog broadcast, with 10 regions to be analog-free by 2010 and the entire country by Nov. 30, 2011.

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