Digital terrestrial television in Estonia

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Digital terrestrial television in Estonia , was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two multiplexes. [1] Transmissions are made with MPEG-4 AVC compression using the DVB-T standard. A DVB-T2 standard-based network (Multiplex 7) has been created for HD-quality TV picture transmission. [2]

In June 2007, Levira and ETV announced that they had agreed to launch an HDTV trial in July 2007. [3]

In November 2007, a third multiplex was launched, covering almost all of the country. This multiplex was to be used by free-to-air services, while the two existing national multiplexes would only carry pay channels. Hence the public channel ETV was transferred to the new multiplex. [4] At this time there are only 10 free-to-air channels (four news channels and channels from ERR and Duo Media (Kanal 7, Kino 7 and MyHits)) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa. [5]

As of 28 April 2025, there are 6 high definition and 36 standard definition channels on these multiplexes: [6]

LCN ChannelLanguageMUX
1. ETV Estonian1
2. ETV2 Estonian1
3. Kanal 2 Estonian6
4. TV3 Estonian6
5.Jupiter (HbbTV service by ERR)Estonian1
6.Digilevi info (HbbTV service by Levira)Estonian1
7. ETV+ Russian, Estonian1
8. France 24 English6
10 TVP World English6
11. FreeDom Russian6
12. Duo 5 Estonian2
13 TV6 Estonian2
14. Duo 4 Estonian3
15. Euronews English3
16. Viasat History English, Russian
Estonian subtilties
6
17. Euronews Russian6
18 FX Life English, Russian
Estonian subtitles
3
19. FX English, Russian
Estonian subtitles
3
20.Duo 3Estonian, Russian2
21.FilmzoneEnglish, Russian3
22.Duo 6Estonian, Russian2
23. RTL German6
24.Eesti KanalEstonian3
25. Investigation Discovery English, Russian
Estonian subtitles
3
26. Discovery Channel English, Russian2
27. National Geographic Channel English, Russian
Estonian subtitles
3
28. Animal Planet English, Russian2
29. History English, Russian
Estonian subtitles
2
31.Kidzone MaxEstonian, Võro, Russian2
34 Eurosport 1 English, Russian2
35 Eurosport 2 English, Russian3
38.MyHitsEstonian3
39. TLC English, Russian3
40.Travel ChannelEnglish, Russian6
44.TV3 LifeEstonian2
50. Hustler TV English3
201 ETV HD Estonian7
202 ETV2 HD Estonian7
207 ETV+ HD Russian, Estonian7
238MyHits HDEstonian4
245Kanal 7 HDRussian, Estonian4
247Kino 7 HDRussian
Estonian subtilties
4

See also

References

  1. "Estonia - Official launch of DTT services". DigiTAG. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
  2. "Teenused telekanalitele". Levira (in Estonian). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  3. "Levira and ETV agreed to start HD transmissions over DTT" (Press release). Levira. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007.
  4. Third DTT mux for Estonia : Broadband TV News
  5. "Terrestrial TV broadcasting". Levira. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  6. "LEVIRA DTT" . Retrieved 28 April 2025.