DTT in Cameroon: CRTV takes the opportunity to reinvent itself with 5 new digital channels

Genre : Inaugurations
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Release/publication date : 2016
Published on : 16/03/2016
Source : Balancing Act | Broadcast Issue no. 2033 - 11 March 2016
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/broadcast/issue-no2033/top-story/top-story/bc

The government broadcaster in Cameroon CRTV is the signal distributor for the transition to DTT and is taking the opportunity to re-invent itself with new local thematic channels and modern equipment. Balancing Act's broadcast analyst Sylvain Beletre talked to CRTV and outlines the plans for the digital transition.

Ahmadou Djodji, MSc. Director of Transmission at CRTV, Public TV of Cameroon confirmed to Balancing Act its roadmap for the switch to digital transition subject to further changes.

The country has already started the process. An early meeting was held in Douala in September 2014 to call national broadcasters to the forthcoming changes. In October 2014, Cameroon's Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, launched in Yaounde an initial national campaign of awareness and information on the transition to digital terrestrial television.

Cameroon made the switch to DTT in July 2015 under the control of the Ministry of Communication. It set up Cam-DTV (Digital TV Cameroon project) to bring together the stakeholders and to manage the process on a day-to-day basis. This body is chaired by the Secretary General of the Prime Minister, Seraphin Magloire Fouda and has broadcast and civil society members and is directly answerable to the Prime Minister.
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