Ukraine cannot switch to digital TV because of the “aggressor country”
Ukraine cannot turn off analogue TV broadcasting on its territory and start digital broadcasting, because in this way it will allow Russian television signals onto its territory.
The influential Kiev publication “Mirror of the Week” writes about this today.
“Europe turned off analogue broadcasting, but Russia did not turn off. In some places, the Russian analog signal penetrates so deep into Ukraine that it reaches all the way to the Dnieper. This means that people who are accustomed to watching Ukrainian channels in analogue will watch Russian ones after it is turned off. And this is along the entire perimeter of the Ukrainian-Russian border. There is no need to explain what this threatens during the war,” the publication writes.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, Ukraine turned off broadcasting of the main Russian television channels back in March 2014. Later, the opposition “Dozhd” also came under repression.
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