Finnish Firms Delay DTT Launch.(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, June, 2000 by PAGNI, JOHN

HELSINKI, FINLAND -- Companies that won digital-terrestrial-TV licenses from the Finnish government last year are delaying introduction of the service and ditching a plan that would have had DTT bow concurrently with the summer Olympic Games in September.

State broadcaster YLE recently announced that it would begin DTT test transmissions this fall and commence full commercial broadcasting by the end of the year.

Private television companies, which received two of the three licenses (of four channel frequencies each), are now aiming for an Aug. 27, 2001, deadline to start full-time programming. The licenses would expire Sept. 1, 2001, if the winners don't begin around-the-clock transmissions by that date.

"We are not postponing, just...

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