This is a plan signed by the government and approved by Royal Decree 944/2005 of 29 July 2005 with the aim of propelling the implementation of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) between the Spaniards.

This measure seeks to end with analogue TV and the impasse in which it found itself this means encouraging the installation of DTT.

Plan objectives

The National Technical Plan of DTT has the following objectives:

·  To create and consolidate half audiovisual become entrenched and that is profitable and independent.

·  Ensuring pluralism in the field of culture, social and political.

·  Achieving a sustainable and rapid transition from analogue television to digital terrestrial.

Main points

The most important points and that can be summed up in the National Technical Plan are as follows:

·  Overtaking the end of the analog broadcast from 2012 to April 2010.

·  To facilitate the transition from analogue television to digital terrestrial.

·  Increasing the supply of television programming through increased air capacity.

·  To meet the demands of the autonomous communities to enable them to perform autonomous disconnections. The regional channels may disconnect provincialmente.

·  Allowing the introduction of Terrestrial Television via mobile phones (DVB-H) and progress towards the Digital High Definition Television (HDTV).

·  Assigned to RTVE a multiplex full of four channels with autonomic disconnections.

·  Receiving a multiplex by broadcasters operating in analog after the blackout analog.

Plan transition to DTT

This is a plan signed in September 2007 in which it was agreed that the blackout analog conducted in an orderly fashion following a series stages with predetermined dates.

This transition plan provides 73 technical areas that meet in 90 projects transition, which make up the whole Spanish territory.

The technical areas are areas of the territory where the radio signal is collected by a primary center, which transferred to the other side points.

The projects are transitional programs through which seeks an end to analog broadcasts in a technical area and its replacement by a digital format.

Blackout technology

The blackout technology will be held on 3 April 2010 after the advance. Mientras tanto se producirá una fase de transición en la que la emisión será simultánea. Meanwhile there will be a transition phase in which the issue will be simultaneous.

This transition is divided into four phases that will take place in 2008, first half of 2009, second half of 2009 and finally the April 3, 2010, when the blackout analog.

Thus, until the end of analog television, coexist broadcasts in digital format with analog.

Phases coverage

The forecast increase in the coverage of DTT is divided into several phases. These are regulated by the National Technical Plan and the Royal Decree 920/2006 and are as follows:

·  Phase I: 80% of national coverage prior to December 31, 2005.

·  Phase II: 85% of national coverage prior to July 31, 2007.

·  Phase III: 88% of national coverage before July 31, 2008.

·  Phase IV: 90% of national coverage before December 31, 2008.

·  Phase V: 93% of national coverage before July 31, 2009.

·  Phase VI: 96% - 98% of national coverage before April 3, 2010.