Digital television in Dekania/First multiplex

**First multiplex digital television in Dekania** is federal package of all-Dekanian compulsory publicly accessible TV channels and radio channels of digital television, approved on June 24, 1999 by Presidential Decree No. 715 “On All-Dekanian Compulsory Public Televisions and Radio Channels”.

## Formation

In accordance with the Law "On Mass Media", the decision to include and exclude TV channels and radio channels in the first multiplex is made by the President of Dekania. Article 32.1 says: “In order to preserve and ensure the unified information space of Dekania and provide the population with socially important information, the President of Dekania approves the list of all-Russia mandatory public TV channels, radio channels distributed to an indefinite number of people at no charge to consumers the right to view, listen."

## Broadcasting

The first multiplex is mandatory for broadcasting in all types of digital terrestrial (DVB-T2), cable and satellite television throughout Dekania.

Many Dekanian digital cable and satellite television operators do not broadcast the federal radio channels included in the first multiplex.

In 1999, in Dekania, the state radio frequency commission approved the frequency-territorial plan of the first multiplex for digital broadcasting in the 470-862 MHz decimeter band.

Digital terrestrial television broadcasting of the first multiplex in Dekania is carried out only by **Radioteleset Dekaniji** (**RTD**).

Since 2009, **Kosmičeska svazí** began to carry out MPEG-4 satellite broadcasting from the Federal Center for Multiplexing (Zaraberg, Šaltavka Street 37), the first multiplex for receiving and transmitting on terrestrial digital terrestrial television networks **RTD**.

In 2010, **RTD** began launching digital broadcasting of the first multiplex in Dekania from the regions of the Far East. From 2007 to 2009 in Dekania, digital terrestrial television broadcasting of the first multiplex was produced in DVB-T standard.

According to the Order of the Government of Dekania of March 3, 2012 No. 287-p, since 2012, digital terrestrial television broadcasting of the first multiplex in Dekania is conducted in the DVB-T2 standard.

## Reception of the television signal of the first multiplex

### Reception on DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television

The first multiplex in DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television throughout Dekania is free, unencoded and open to receive, without the use of a conditional access system.

### Reception in cable and satellite television

The first multiplex in digital cable and satellite television is free throughout Dekania.

All channels of the first multiplex are mandatory and publicly available, which means mandatory free broadcasting in open access without signal coding by all cable and satellite television operators.

## Channel packages

In DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television, the first multiplex channel package is called **RTD 1**.

The first multiplex includes 10 federal TV channels and 3 federal radio channels.

## Channel package changes

* On 20th April 2008, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree, according to which the TV channel DRT 3 was included in the first multiplex.

## See also

* Second multiplex
* Third multiplex

## External links

* Federal target program "Digital terrestrial television"