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Zimbabwe begins switch to digital from analogue TV Monday 19 April 2021 | 10:43 CET | News Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa commissioned the country s digitisation programme under the Zimbabwe Digital Broadcasting Migration on 16 April. Mutsvangwa said the migration would help bridge the information gap between urban and rural communities. Mutsvangwa reiterated Mnangagwa s call for farmers to fully utilise their land to help cut the food import bill so that the government could use the money for the development agenda, including completion of the outstanding 30 transmitters.
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Zim TV goes digital
Conrad Mupesa
Mashonaland West Bureau
ZIMBABWE will soon have free-to-air digital television services through 12 stations following the successful and historic switch-over yesterday, from the analogue signal to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa commissioned the country’s digitisation programme under the Zimbabwe Digital Broadcasting Migration at a landmark ceremony in Magunje, Mashonaland West.
The US$125 million migration project to switch over from analogue to digital commenced in 2015 and the nation failed to meet its deadline owing to several setbacks that included poor funding.
At least 18 transmitters, including the Karoi transmitter, have so far been completed from the targeted 48, mostly in areas that had challenges in receiving analogue signals.