RTVA will have a third regional DTT channel

The Governing Council of the Junta de Andalucía agrees to reserve for RTVA the regional coverage channel that CORASA has left vacant.

The Governing Council of the Government of Andalusia has agreed to reserve for the public business agency of Radio and Television of Andalusia the program left free by the Radio Communication company CORASA (linked to PRISA), which was awarded in 2007 and was resolved by mutual agreement. This decision is adopted since the RTVA requested in the past to have greater common spectrum capacity in order to develop new services such as high definition. Now, after one of the two autonomous and privately operated channels has been left free, the Government Council has chosen to reserve this space for Andalusian public radio and television, which already has the digital signals of Canal Sur 1 and 2 throughout the Community.

Andalusian DTT map

After this reservation of space, the Andalusian DTT map with regional coverage remains in the hands of RTVA (three channels) and Vocento through Avista Televisión de Andalucía (a channel awarded in 2007 without starting broadcasts yet). The second regional multiplex already has two successful bidders (Editorial Prensa Alicantina, publisher of La Opinión de Málaga, and the Joly Group, with two others still to be awarded.