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March 19 2025	ATSC standards Guyana Learning Channel launched a campaign to deliver digital receivers to households that previously only had analog signal reception.
December 4 2024	ATSC standards Barbados opened digital television using ATSC standard.
September 16 2024	ATSC standards Patents for ATSC 1.0 technology held by patent pool organizations officially expired, marking the end of patent protection for the original ATSC standard.
March 5 2024	ATSC standards Saint Lucia opened digital television using ATSC standard.
February 14 2024	DVB All television channels in Spain will be required to broadcast exclusively in HD format.
March 2023	ATSC standards Trinidad and Tobago began conversion process to ATSC 3.0 standard.
2022	ATSC standards Jamaica began conversion to ATSC 3.0 standard.
2021	DVB Planned end of analog television broadcasts in Colombia, completing the digital television transition.
July 13 2021	ATSC standards United States analog low-power stations and translators were wound down.
November 2020	DVB DVB-I specification published as an ETSI standard (TS 103 770).
June 2020	DVB DVB-I specification first published as DVB BlueBook A177.
2019	DVB Russia completed its transition to digital television broadcasting, fully switching to the DVB-T2 standard and implementing two channel packs containing approximately ten major national radio and TV channels.
2019	DVB DVB-T2 is planned for introduction in the Netherlands.
November 2019	DVB DVB-I specification was approved by the DVB Project.
April 2019	DVB Analog television signal shutoff is delayed to this date in Malaysia.
February 2019	DVB DVB Steering Board deprecated the DVB-CPCM specifications.
2018	ATSC standards Antigua & Barbuda adopted ATSC standard.
March 2018	DVB Terms of reference for DVB-I were agreed upon.
January 2018	DVB Work on commercial requirements for DVB-I began.
October 2017	DVB DVB Project established a working group to begin defining a specification for standalone TV services over IP (DVB-I services).
2016	ATSC standards All television channels in Suriname completed their transition to ATSC digital broadcasting standards.
December 31 2016	ATSC standards Mexico extended full ATSC transition deadline to this date due to technical and economic issues.
March 9 2016	ATSC standards Bermuda officially adopted ATSC standard.
September 24 2015	ATSC standards Dominican Republic completed initial ATSC transition, though most companies could not meet the deadline.
June 2015	DVB Malaysian government announces staged deployment of DVB-T2 technology.
June 2014	ATSC standards Channel ATV began ATSC broadcasts in the Paramaribo area of Suriname, initiating the country's transition from analogue NTSC to digital ATSC broadcasting.
2013	ATSC standards Mexico began converting to ATSC standard.
2013	DVB Completion of DVB-CPCM specifications standardization by ETSI.
July 31 2012	ATSC standards CBC announced shutdown of all analog repeaters due to budget issues and obsolete distribution network.
December 14 2011	ATSC standards Bahamas' national public broadcaster ZNS-TV announced adoption of ATSC standard.
August 31 2011	ATSC standards Canada shut down full-power analog stations in mandatory markets, transitioning to ATSC.
2010	DVB Analogue broadcast in Spain ended after achieving 100% digital coverage.
August 10 2010	ATSC standards Dominican Republic announced adoption of ATSC standard.

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