Bulgaria

[BG] Terrestrial Digital Licensing

IRIS 2010-7:1/10

Rayna Nikolova

New Bulgarian University

In its session on 21 May 2010 the Council for Electronic Media resolved to issue 18 licenses for the carrying out of television activities for channels intended for broadcasting by means of networks for terrestrial digital radio broadcasting with a national scope.

These are in particular Bulgaria Cable TV OOD (for the channel “Bulgaria TV”); Television Europe AD (for the channel “Television Europe”); Radio Veselina EAD (for the channel “The Voice TV”); TV Guide Network OOD (for the channel “TV Guide”); Television Varna AD (for the channel “Television Varna”); Pink BG EOOD (for the channel “PINK BG”); Balkan Bulgarian Television EAD (for the channel “BBT”); TV seven EAD (for the channels “TV7” and “Super7”); Eurofootball print EOOD (for the channel “Eurofootball”); ICS EAD (for the channel “Chance TV’); Estate TV EOOD (for the channel “TV1”); M.Sat TV EOOD (for the channel “M SAT”); R.D. -TV EOOD (for the channel “Black sea” (“Cherno more”)); Ring TV EAD (for the channel “Ring BG”); Folklore TV OOD (for the channel “Folklore TV”); Fan TV OOD (for the channels “Balkanika Music Television” and “Fan TV”).

At the same session the Council for Electronic Media resolved to issue licenses to the Bulgarian National Television for the creation of the channel “BNT Sofia” which will be broadcast by means of networks for terrestrial analogous and terrestrial digital television broadcasting with a regional scope.