Digital television
Television transmission using digital encoding
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| 2025 | WPLG announces plans to expand its local news department, planning to carry 93 hours of local newscasts per week following the ABC network disaffiliation. |
| 2025 |
9Go!
9Go! adds 'Go Togo' and 'Tinpo' to its current programming roster
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| April 13 2025 | KBKF-LD switched to a Bollywood music format branded 'Suno 87.7', replacing the previous Air1 Christian contemporary music format. |
| April 3 2025 |
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Unexpected analogue TV signals were detected in Madura and Cocklebiddy in Remote Western Australia, transmitted via a VAST satellite dish on multiple channels including 7mate and Seven.
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| 2025 | Gray and Sinclair filed with the FCC to trade WSJV for WHOI, which would result in Sinclair owning both the WSJV and WSBT licenses. |
| March 31 2025 |
Digital terrestrial television
Deadline for addressing potential loss of analogue TV signals in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape provinces.
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| March 2025 | Sky announced plans to close customer call centres in Stockport, Sheffield, and Leeds, resulting in approximately 2,000 job losses and a 7 percent workforce reduction. |
| March 2025 | KSAT cancelled its long-running sports highlight and discussion program Instant Replay, which had been airing on Sundays at 11 p.m. |
| March 28 2025 | Te Reo stopped broadcasting over-the-air, though it remains available on the Freeview streaming app. |
| 2025 | KJZZ announced an agreement to air games featuring the Utah Warriors of Major League Rugby. |
| March 20 2025 | WPLG president and CEO E. R. Bert Medina announces the station will end its ABC affiliation on August 4, citing high costs and programming changes |
| March 19 2025 |
ATSC standards
Guyana Learning Channel launched a campaign to deliver digital receivers to households that previously only had analog signal reception.
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| March 2025 |
Digital television transition
Barbados began digital television transition from analog system, expected to take up to 9 months.
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| 2025 |
Digital television transition
Argentina, Brazil (remaining areas), Philippines (Metro Manila), Peru (Lima and Callao), and Russia (remaining channels) scheduled for digital television transition.
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| March 2025 | UCB Ireland radio left the Saorview platform. |
| 2025 |
Digital television transition
Argentina, Brazil (remaining areas), Philippines (Metro Manila), and Peru (Lima and Callao) planned for digital television transition
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| March 2025 | Secured an exclusive broadcast agreement with the WNBA's Seattle Storm to air all games not selected by national networks. |
| February 27 2025 | ABS-CBN disclosed plans to sell most of its Broadcast Center to Ayala Land for redevelopment, while retaining 1.4 hectares of the property to consolidate operations. |
| February 2025 | KCOP-TV scheduled to air matches from the Coachella Valley Invitational preseason tournament featuring LA Galaxy, Los Angeles FC, and Angel City FC. |
| February 15 2025 |
DTT channels in the United Kingdom
Extreme Channel is removed from Freeview DTT channels, also moving to Channelbox after launching in June 2024.
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| February 2025 |
ATSC 3.0
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) filed a petition with the FCC proposing a mandatory two-stage ATSC 3.0 transition, beginning with top 55 media markets in February 2028 and the remainder by February 2030.
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| January 28 2025 | ABS-CBN and GMA Network announced a collaboration for the 20th Anniversary of Pinoy Big Brother as a Celebrity Collab Edition, allowing artists from both media companies to participate. |
| January 22 2025 | Channel shut down on Freeview after 6 months of operation. |
| January 22 2025 |
DTT channels in the United Kingdom
Ginx TV is removed from Freeview DTT channels after six months, relocating to Channelbox due to technical issues with loading on some Freeview Play devices.
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| January 20 2025 |
DTT channels in the United Kingdom
London Live, a local TV channel, was removed from the digital terrestrial television platform and rebranded as London TV.
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| January 2025 | ABS-CBN Regional returned to content production, launching its first post-shutdown weekly local magazine show 'Bisaya Ni', which airs on A2Z's Cebu station and sister stations in Visayas and Mindanao. |
| January 2025 | Albay Representative Joey Salceda filed House Bill 11252, the fifth bill seeking to grant ABS-CBN a new 25-year television and radio broadcasting franchise. |
| January 1 2025 |
TheGrio
TheGrio's digital subchannel distribution ended at 5 am EST. The channel remains available on cable providers and FAST channel services, with cable version showing a loop of Black sitcoms from the 1970s to 1990s.
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| 2024 | Simulcast with WMEU-CD ends as WBBM-TV moves its ATSC 1.0 signal to WGN-TV's spectrum. |
| 2024 | Gray Television reached an agreement for KSCW to broadcast eight Oklahoma City Thunder games. |
| 2024 | Concluded its affiliation with The CW network. |
| 2024 | KCOP-TV began broadcasting NHL's Anaheim Ducks games. |
| 2024 |
Freely
Freely launched as a British free-to-air IPTV service by Everyone TV, a joint venture between BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, offering live television and on-demand media through a unified electronic programme guide over broadband internet.
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| 2024 | The Phoenix Coyotes franchise was deactivated, with Scripps retaining broadcast rights for the new Utah Hockey Club. |
| 2024 | WPLG broadcast the Florida Panthers' Stanley Cup Final victory. |
| 2024 | Prior to the Summer Olympics in Paris, KNTV upgraded its ATSC 3.0 signal to include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio, and added a broadcast application allowing viewers to see weather radar or restart a program. |
| 2024 |
Digital television transition
Brazil and Chile completed digital television transition.
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| 2024 | Peachtree TV and the Atlanta Hawks reached a new agreement for the 2024-25 season to simulcast five games. |
| 2024 | As a CW affiliate, WPCH-TV began carrying select Atlantic Coast Conference football games. |
| December 2024 |
Digital terrestrial television in the Philippines
NTC finalized rules for analog shutdown in Mega Manila, planning to release draft memorandum circular for public hearing in January 2025, with analog shutdown to commence in the Mega Manila area within 2025.
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| December 2024 | Gray Television announced an agreement with the Braves to sublicense 15 regular season games and exclusively broadcast 10 spring training games, with WPCH as the flagship station. |
| December 31 2024 |
Digital terrestrial television
End of the dual-illumination period and switch-off of remaining analogue services below 694 MHz.
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| December 31 2024 | WPLG's affiliation agreement with ABC officially expires |
| December 10 2024 |
DTT channels in the United Kingdom
FilmStream channel removed from Freeview, continuing as a FAST channel on Plex
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| December 4 2024 |
ATSC standards
Barbados opened digital television using ATSC standard.
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| December 1 2024 |
Digital terrestrial television
Planned completion date for El Salvador's digital terrestrial television transition, marking the full switchover to digital broadcasting.
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| November 4 2024 |
Digital terrestrial television in the Philippines
NTC announced plans to commence analog switch-off on December 31, starting in the Mega Manila area.
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