Thousands of households are expected to be impacted by a change in the transmission of free-to-air television channels via aerial as the authorities are in the process of reviewing whether to stop the service early next year.
The change will impact anyone who relies solely on an aerial to access local TV stations.
That means it will also affect households that have internet-based providers, such as IPTV and streaming services but do not have subscriptions with local TV service providers GO and Melita.
The shift will come about as television providers plan to close off a telecommunications hub that uses old systems and techniques to transmit free-to-air transmissions via aerials. In recent years, these older systems, used to transmit free-to-air channels via aerials, have regularly developed faults.
Times of Malta was supplied information on the change by an official manning the…
