Four digital transmitters were put into operation in the Vitebsk region in 2009

December 30, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Digital television broadcasting has been organized in the Gorodok district of the Vitebsk region - on the eve of the New Year, a digital transmitter was launched at the radio and television transmitting station in the settlement of Bychiha. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the chief engineer of the Vitebsk branch of RUP "Belarusian Radio Broadcasting Transmitting Center" Leonid Khishov. Thus, in 2009, a total of four digital transmitters were commissioned in the region. In 2009, a digital package of TV programs ("Channel One", "ONT", "LAD", "STV", "NTV-Belarus", "RTR-Belarus", "Mir", "Channel 8") became available for reception by residents of Vitebsk and its suburbs (the estimated service area is up to 40 km), Braslav (36 km) and Gorodok district (up to 20 km). The work was carried out according to the plan for accelerated implementation of digital television broadcasting in Belarus, developed in accordance with the State Program for the Implementation of Digital Television and Radio Broadcasting until 2015, using funds from the innovation fund of the Ministry of Communications and the regional budget. Also, in the current year, during the implementation of the regional program for the construction, technical re-equipment and expansion of radio and television stations, the Osviya radio and television transmitting station (settlement of Osviya, Verkhnedvinsk district) was commissioned. This remote area of the Verkhnedvinsk district is outside the reliable reception zone of the existing transmitters. Now, in addition to the digital package, five analog television programs and three radio programs have become available to residents of the northern outskirts of the region. The estimated service area of the station is up to 50 km. In total, six digital TV signal transmitters are operating in the Vitebsk region. In 2008, digital television broadcasting was organized in Orsha. At the same time, for the first time in Belarus, the Orsha transmitting station used the MPEG-4 / AVC standard of advanced signal compression for digital television. Earlier, a digital signal radio and television transmitting repeater was commissioned in the urban-type settlement of Sharkovshchina. In 2010, it is planned to install five digital transmitters in the region in Liozno, Senno, Ushachi, as well as in the Rossony and Tolochin districts. -0-