Spain can stay at the gates of time to reach achieve analogue switch-off.

Within a year, so days like today, in all Spanish households will be the only television via digital terrestrial. Or at least should be. The process of antenización, at the end of 2008 amounted to 65.6 percent of all buildings in Spain, is the main "bottleneck" that is hindering the transition to only one year of the analogue switch-off, which ago that "we run the risk of not arriving on time" as the president said today Impels DTT, Eladio Gutiérrez. At a press conference at the Press Association of Madrid (APM), the organization formed by RTVE, Telecinco, Sogecable, Antena 3, La Sexta, Net TV and Veo TV, the Fort and Abertis Telecom, warned that, despite the fact that "the process is on track," the technical and human at the time of placing the antennas to tune DTTs are slowing down the process.

Given this, Impels TDT as the National Transitional Council, announced today that affect this issue: "We need to remind people not to stop the last minute antenización" said José Antonio Quintela, president of the National Transition. In addition, uncertainty still prevails among the operators, who today reiterated the need for a "roadmap" to try to dispel doubts about the future of television as of April 3, 2010.

According Eladio Gutiérrez, the economic crisis that affects the advertising market and rising costs of production chains, as well as those arising from the alignment of broadcasters to the new system, are the "main problems" faced by the transition to DTT, which requested the Administration to inform operators about the "post off" living now surrounded by a "great uncertainty". In this regard, some general lines of action could also help to clarify the problem of multiplex-bandwidth channels to provide the current-share operators who aspire to manage and use their control in their own the future. Regarding the DTT pay, Gutierrez said that all operators are in favor of this mode of payment, but each one wants to reach "a different pace."

In this sense, it is "obvious" that sooner or later be adopted, but felt that since its adoption to its implementation will spend "at least four or five months" because the tuners are not valid for current interactive methods such as DTT or payment. Also, the Association for the Development and Implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television in Spain, Impels DTT, presented "Music Yearbook 2008" which shows that, at present, the signal coverage reaches 92.4 percent households, the law requires private schools to get to 98 percent and 96 percent private. Also, according to data from the past month, the penetration of DTT in households stands at 50.7 percent, 67.3 percent of households watch television via DTT, the audience reaches 27 , 3 per cent of 'share' and had already sold nearly 17 million DTT tuners (16924937) since March 2003. Notably, of these, 45 percent of the total were acquired in the past year.Phase I of the process ends next June 30, covering 1826 towns across Spain.This means that from that date,around five million viewers will only see the television through DTT. According to data obtained by TDT Impels in the last month, the signal coverage in these areas reaches 97 percent and nearly 70 percent of households (69.3) are connected, ie, receive the digital signal and with DTT tuners.