Wednesday, 19 Octorber 2011

French communications regulator CSA has announced an auction for six new HD channels on the country’s DTT network.

The channels will be broadcast in the DVB-T1 MPEG 4 standard on multiplexes R7 and R8.

Bids must be submitted by January 3 2012 and the CSA will meet with shortlisted candidates between March 5-9. The successful channels will be announced in March with licences delivered by the end of May.