DTT: Bouquet to have 17 TV channels

In Cameroon, the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV) or DTT will finally include 17 channels. According to additional explanations provided by Balancing Act, in addition to 12 free channels available on the DTT bouquet, CRTV, the public television will provide five other regional and thematic channels.

According to Djodji Amadou, director of the signal emission and transmission of CRTV, who spoke to Balancing Act, “to supply the DTT, CRTV has created 5 new digital channels: in addition to the CRTV, the main national TV channel, the public entity plans to launch ‘La Côtière, the Littoral channel; CRTV News, news channel and continuous news; a cultural and regional channel; an educational channel of distance learning, providing low cost education; and an entertainment channel. “

Pending the arrival of these new channels, he says, the currently available DTT bouquet broadcasts 12 channels including 4 international channels and 8 national television (CRTV, Canal2, STV, Equinox, Vision 4, DBS, LTM-TV, Camnews24), and 4 international channels which are BBC, France24, TV5MONDE, and Africa24.

Eventually, six channels of CRTV, seven other channels in Cameroon and four international channels that will broadcast in digital, 17 channels in all. It is also planned two HD channels while others will be in SD.

Remember that; Cameroon has made her first steps in the DTT tests in July 2015. Approximately 2,000 households were selected in the cities of Yaounde and Douala for tests.

According to Cam-DTV (Cameroon Digital TV project), the digital transition management instance, viewers in these cities and their surroundings can receive digitally a bouquet of twelve national and international channels for free, as long as they have DTT decoders or TVs with DTT receiver.