[opendtv] Re: Bolivia TV standard mystery

I'm not Italian, but it seems that I know more about this than a few others
hereabouts.

RAI formerly was a state-controlled broadcaster with multiple channels.
They sold off most, with Silvio Berlusconi ending up controlling most
through MEDIASET.

I think at this moment, just one RAI channel is actually owned by the state.

John Willkie

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> 
> Dale Kelly wrote:
> 
> >Very Interesting. Who funded this infrastructure? I assume,
> >without any evidence, that it was tax payer supported, at
> >least initially, ala the BBC model.
> 
> I'm not entirely clear on that, Dale. There's what seems to be a
> subsidiary
> company, controlled almost entirely by RAI, called Rai Way. It split off
> from the national radio and TV networks, RAI, in March of 2000, to run and
> maintain all of the OTA radio and TV infrastructure (maybe also DBS),
> primarily for RAI, but also for other clients in broadcast and telecom. So
> given that RAI gets public funds, I guess you've made the correct
> assumption.
> 
> http://www.raiway.rai.it/index.php?lang=IT&cat=121
> 
> What isn't clear to me is whether other private broadcasters, e.g.
> Berlusconi's Mediaset corporation, with programs on three DTT multiplexes
> (RAI only has two multiplexes), rents room on the Rai Way infrastructure,
> or
> whether there are parallel organizations owned by the independent
> broadcasters that install their own infrastructure.
> 
> Then there's an organization called DGTVi,  with RAI, Mediaset, and other
> broadcasters as members, that coordinates the digital system, e.g. by
> writing the spec for the DTT receivers and for interactivity, to ensure
> that
> all DTT broadcasts are compatible, and to ensure compliance with all the
> Euro laws on the matter.
> 
> http://www.dgtvi.it/stat/Altre_sezioni/Associazione_DGTVi/Associazione_DGT
> Vi.html
> 
> Assuming Rai Way does rent out room for all broadcasters, this would be
> similar to how Freeview operates.
> 
> >I may not have explained the Santa Barbara markets (121st
> >ranking) transmitter site distribution clearly. The NBC affiliate
> >is located in the extreme north end of the market and the
> >ABC station is 100 miles to the south, with CBS being about
> >in the middle. Santa Maria is centrally located and generally
> >can receive all three, but it deteriorates rapidly as you move
> >north, south, east or west due to intervening terrain. There
> >simply is not the revenue available in such a market to fund
> >the investment required to cover a majority of the population
> >OTA.
> 
> Seems just what translators were designed to do. I don't know how feasible
> it is, but perhaps the only hope would be for the broadcasters to pool
> their
> resources to install translators at the extreme north and south ends of
> the
> market. Although as we've already determined, in the US, much easier to
> get
> people to buy cable or DBS. Propagation in mountainous terrain is strange.
> 
> Bert
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