During the hearing of the parliamentary commission for the supervision of radio and television services, the Rai asked to postpone the date of the transition to DVB-T2. The request was made directly by voice of Giampaolo Rossigeneral director of Rai, yesterday.
During the senator’s questioning Marco Lisei of FdI, Rossi admitted that from a technological and production point of view the public service is not yet ready for the transition and that talks are underway to move the deadline.
All this is quite alarming, as 2024 will be a year full of sporting events for Rai, first and foremost the Olympics and the European football championships. According to the Rai director “The switch off in T2 risks penalizing a currently not clearly quantifiable number of families who do not yet have access to the new technology through smart TVs“, with the consequent risk that a large part of the population will be completely excluded from the aforementioned events, which are still considered “essential” for a public service like Rai.
Switching to DVB-T2? Rai and Europens in trouble in the year of the Olympics and European football championships
Numbers in hand, in fact, according to Censis we are talking about 8.4 million Europen families without a device compatible with second generation digital terrestrial.
On the other hand, the transition towards this new technology should give a push to users towards new devices, always taking into account that the population is already dealing with an economic crisis which makes it difficult to purchase a new one. smart TV.
According to the program, the public service was supposed to move one of its own mux (technique used to transmit digital terrestrial television signals) towards DVB-T2 technology from 10 January 2024, with a system already under pressure for the transfer of bandwidth 700 MHzwhich has already put Rai under pressure.