Representatives of radio broadcasters associations propose to the MTC to review the schedule of the analog television blackout

This is a machine translation of MTC’s press release issued in Spanish

The Vice Minister of Communications, Víctor Omar Álvarez Herrera, met today with representatives of the National Society of Radio and Television and the National Confederation of Radio and Television to review the dates of the analog blackout in the framework of the implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTT) in Peru.

Álvarez said that the representatives of the aforementioned unions requested the creation of a work table that allows reviewing the schedule for the analog blackout in Lima (territory 01) and provinces (territory 02,03,04,05), included in the Master Plan to implement DTT in Peru” (DS Nº 017-2010-MTC).

According to this plan, the first “blackout” is scheduled for December 31, 2022 (Lima and Callao) and would end on December 31, 2028 (in the interior…