Of Perogrullo, yes, but important to calibrate the relevancy of the last initiative prepared by the Government in order to modify the bogey of the Terrestrial Digital Television (TDT).

The Department of Industry has written already, and sent for his consultation to the Advice Adviser of the Telecommunications and the Information society, the Royal decree draft that that will allow precisely, the autonomic public chains to be able turn in the provinces that border on the territory where they express at present. This is, that the castellanomanchegos could syntonize Telemadrid and on the contrary in case of the persons from Madrid. Or, for example, that TV3, the Catalan one, could express in the Valencian Community and in Balearics.

How? With a third múltiplex, a channel of emission of the digital television that multiplies by four the transmission capacity. In practice, four more digital channels for every autonomous region, which in this occasion will not be able to award private operators.

«With it it is made possible that digital channels of the public television of entitlement of an autonomous region could be expressed in the geographical ambience of others, whenever the spaces radioeléctricos are adjacent», it says the text of Industry to which THE WORLD has had access and that will modify the Royal decree that regulates the national technical TDT plan. The only requisite that establishes the new regulation of the Department of Industry is that the governments of the affected communities sign a previous agreement for the exchange of the sign. Translated: if TV3 he wants to keep on expressing in territory of Channel precise Nou of the previous agreement between the Catalan and Valencian executives, which will imply also that the Levantine chain will be able turn, let's set, in the hearths of Barcelona.

In fact, the Catalan one would be, beforehand, the chain most benefited by the ministerial plans. From last spring it supports a conflict with Generalitat Valenciana, which has proposed to veto the sign of TV3 in his territory with the closing ceremony of the repeaters who allow to come to the Valencian spectators.

«This is not the target», adds, nevertheless, from Industry the general manager of Telecommunications, Bernardo Lorenzo. «The Royal decree chases to balance an unequal situation that exists because only Catalonia already has a third múltiplex and now all the autonomous regions will be able to have it, in addition to solving a technical problem that was preventing the intercommunity emission. Valencia had asked for it, the Basque Country in his moment and also Madrid like claim of equality of dealing».

At the moment, and with a rapid glance to the autonomic television panorama, again Catalonia and Valencia stand out like the most interested communities in the possibilities of the new múltiplex. The first one would close also a reciprocity agreement in the emission with Balearics and the second one has already recognized his interest to express in Murcia.


(The World, 21/11/07)