Digital terrestrial television in Lenapore

Digital terrestrial television was introduced to Lenapore on January 30th, 2000. Nicknamed at launch as "television for the new millennium", it became the only source of terrestrial transmission effective the start of 2019.

Analog broadcasts were initially scheduled to finish on December 31st, 2017, but in November, owing to problems among people in underdeveloped social classes, the date has been pushed back to December 31st, 2018. This makes Lenapore the country that has had the longest time where analog and digital terrestrial signals coexisted, a record of eighteen years and eleven months.

History[edit | edit source]

Talks of DTT started in September 1998 when the first networks started in Eurectipheria. Lenapore was going to be the first country in Sondria to adopt said signals and was given a 24-month period of adoption. Lenapore then adopted DVB-T and the Television Corporation of Lenapore's channels: Channel 5, Channel 8, Sakura, SNN and Central, all started regular broadcasts on January 30th, 2000 (coincidentally the same day Central launched). Suria, the LPH MediaWorks channels and CityTV would join later.

The signal initially reached parts of Lenapore City, as means to test viewer's interests.

The country switched to an entirely-digital system on January 2, 2019. There has been a series of delays regarding this, as, less than a year before the shutdown of analog signals (initially scheduled to be on January 1, 2018, then delayed by a year) there were still some areas of Lenapore who still relied on analog transmission. There initially was a chance of further delay regarding the Rangeedu television transmitter, who experienced a new signal outage between December 25 and 29. In accordance with the Media Regulatory Authority, all analog television transmitters must be active until the January 2 deadline and will be switched off completely later.

All channels switched off analog signals between 00:00 and 00:05 on January 2, all channels had their signal replaced by captions. One month later, the captions were shut down as well, the analog signal terminated and its spectrum freed.

Timeline of the switch-off[edit | edit source]

Time	Channel	Description
23:00:18	Capital Television	Switches over to analog switch-off slide becoming the first channel to do so
23:57:43	XBC Television	Majulah Lenapura finishes playing and goes to testcard. Coincidentally the radio station it was plugged to waas playing a Xalxan parting song, Rangeedu Thirangeedu
23:58:47	Channel 5	Terrestrial signal disconnects during promos and plays the 1991 sign-off animation in pillarbox, preceded by the LBC 5 slide. Majulah Lenapura follows at 23:59:52
23:59:03	XBC Television	Signal is switched off, cuts to Xalxan version of the slide
00:00:28	Channel 5	Signal switched off on StarHub roughly two minutes after the terrestrial signal, Films and Stars of 2018 had just started
00:01:40	Channel 5	Terrestrial signal switches to the slide
00:02:17	Okto	Analog signal ends seconds after nightly closedown routine