PM switches off analogue TV signal

Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor at 12:35 hours on Tuesday symbolically pressed a button switching off the analogue TV signal in Croatia after 54 years of broadcasting and switching to digital.

Kosor thanked everyone who took part in the digitalisation project, saying this job was completed much sooner than envisaged by the European Commission (2012), bringing Croatia among the 14 European countries which had completely switched to digital broadcasting.

Kosor said it would be good if Croatia achieved goals as quickly and as successfully in other areas as well.

She underlined the importance of the media in the transfer of information and promotion of truth, as well as cultural and other contents, so that information could get the status it deserved, notably once Croatia wrapped up accession negotiations with the European Union.

The PM also underlined that her government was fighting the current economic crisis and corruption.

She said the government had invested HRK 86 million (EUR 11.8 million) in the switch to digital broadcasting.

A state secretary at the government office for e-Croatia, Igor Lucic, said more than a million households were included in the digitalisation project and that 97 per cent were covered by the digital signal.

He also announced the further development of broadband communications.


(Hina)