The Romanian Television Society’s channel TVR1 will restart to be transmitted in Moldova on December 1, IPN reports, quoting the ICT Ministry. The TV channel can be received in the digital format DVB-T2 (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial), owing to the experimental digital transmission of IS “Radiocomunicatii”, IPN reports.

The Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) decided to allocate a slot for terrestrial digital transmission in the experimental multiplexor located in Chisinau to TVR1. “The DVBT standard takes into account the irregularities of the relief and enables to build a synchronic network for using a group of low-power emitters for uniformly covering an area with complicated relief, like Moldova’s territory,” said Deputy ICT Minister Dumitru Parfentiev.

The BCC’s decision is in accordance with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights of October 15, 2013, concerning the amicable settlement of the dispute over the broadcasting of the Romanian channel TVR.

The broadcast schedule of TVR will contain a mixture of programs that are now broadcast by the public TV channels of Romania. There will be also transmitted programs dedicated to the Moldovan public. For the time being, TVR will have a coverage area of about 35 km around Chisinau, which includes over 700,000 persons.

“From technical viewpoint, we are prepared to provide digital television for the entire Moldova, after the approval of the program on the switchover to terrestrial digital television and the allocation of license to IS “Radiocomunicatii”,” said Dumitru Parfentiev.

The transmission of TVR1 was halted during the Communists’ rule. The Romanian Television Society appealed to the ECHR. Even after the Communists lost the elections, the retransmission of TVR was delayed and some of the channel’s programs could be seen only as reruns on local TV channels.