The BBC has issued an official response to the Government’s White Paper on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). The Corporation is demanding a more dominant role, and has announced that it wants total control of one of the six new digital frequencies (Multiplexes) which will provide the technology to create 20 extra television channels.
Director General – John Birt said: “The BBC is determined to pioneer and to develop its full potential in the digital age. We should offer exciting and innovative services and protect quality and standards in the new technologies as we have in the old. And we need a BBC Multiplex to enable us to do so.”
The BBC believes that DTT should be introduced to viewers with a clear indication of when it will become the sole means of terrestrial transmission and the analogue frequencies will be transferred to other uses. “Nobody should be left in any doubt that as soon as is practicable, Britain’s terrestrial transmission system will become exclusively digital.”
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