Analogue television will disappear next year in several German states of the cable. This Unitymedia, announced the largest cable company in Germany. The shutdown affects about 12.8 million households.
As of June 30, 2017 Unitymedia provides no analogue television through via its cable network in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Baden-Wurttemberg. As in the Netherlands are also looking less and less Germans analog TV. According Unitymedia makes only 15% of customers using analog television.
However, there are, for example in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Land adjacent to a large part of the Netherlands, currently 400,000 customers only analogous to the TV look. They serve to switch to digital television, so they should invest in a new television or digital television receiver.
The space freed by the switch-off of analogue signals will use the cable company for more HD channels.
Unitymedia is owned by Liberty Global. In the Netherlands, this company owns Ziggo. Despite that in the Netherlands the share of analogue television has been steadily declining, Ziggo has no concrete plans to switch off analogue television. [Radio.NL]
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