Europarl TV (European Parliament TV) started: 17th September 2008-transparency & info for citizens dawns

After 3 years of development, Europarl TV goes live with 4 channels, 1 offering life proceedings called ‘Parliament Live, , 1 offering analysis on Parliament called ‘yourParliament’, 1 offering the ‘Young European’ programming explaining Europe to them topically and 1 for ‘ Your Voice’ where citizens can interact with the EU. This is a great acheivement. Now is the time for national governments, via their departmental websites, policial parties of the EU websites and a TV and billboard advertising campaign to be initiated.  Visit it at http://www.europarltv.europa.eu/StartPage.aspx and be informed and what’s important in Europe right now!

Also, MEPs have apparently called for harmonisation of the Digital Dividend resulting from switchover to Digital only TV.”

“The European Parliament has called for frequencies freed-up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV to be used for new wireless services such as broadband internet or mobile TV, and for interoperability of these services across the EU”, writes the Digital Television Group.

They also propose in the report by Italian MEP Patrizia Toia using the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band the spectrum to be co-ordinated in reallocation of military analogue spectrum to be released for civilian use for mobile TV, wireless and other services.

For more on the article See: http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=3125