Digital terrestrial television in Estonia, was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two multiplexes.[1] Transmissions are made with MPEG-4 AVC compression using the DVB-T standard. A DVB-T2 standard-based network (Multiplex 7) has been created for HD-quality TV picture transmission.[2]
In June 2007, Levira and ETV announced that they had agreed to launch an HDTV trial in July 2007.[3]
In November 2007, a third multiplex was launched, covering almost all of the country. This multiplex was to be used by free-to-air services, while the two existing national multiplexes would only carry pay channels. Hence the public channel ETV was transferred to the new multiplex.[4] At this time there are only five free-to-air channels (ETV, ETV2, ETV+, TallinnaTV, France 24) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa.[5]
As of January 2019, There are 3 High Definition and 39 Standard Definition channels on these multiplexes:[6]
LCN | Channel | Language | MUX | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | ETV | Estonian | 1 | |
2. | ETV2 | Estonian | 1 | |
3. | Kanal 2 | Estonian | 6 | |
4. | TV3 | Estonian | 6 | |
5. | Tallinna TV | Estonian | 1 | |
6. | AntenniTV info | Estonian | 1 | |
7. | ETV+ | EstonianRussian | 1 | |
9. | France 24 | English | 6 | |
10 | TVP World | English | 6 | |
12. | Duo 4 | Estonian | 2 | |
13 | TV6 Estonia | Estonian | 2 | |
14. | Duo 5 | Estonian | 3 | |
15. | Euronews | EnglishRussian | 3 | |
16. | Viasat History | EnglishRussian Estonian subtilties | 6 | |
18 | Fox Life | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 3 | |
19. | Fox | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 3 | |
20. | Duo 3 | English Russian | 2 | |
21. | Filmzone | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 3 | |
22. | Duo 6 | EnglishRussian subtilties | 2 | |
23. | RTL TV | German | 6 | |
24. | Filmzone+ | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 3 | |
25. | Investigation Discovery | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 2 | |
26. | Discovery Channel | EnglishRussian | 2 | |
27. | National Geographic Channel | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 3 | |
28. | Animal Planet | EnglishRussian | 2 | |
29. | History Channel | EnglishRussian Estonian subtitles | 2 | |
31. | Kidzone TV | EstonianRussian | 2 | |
32. | Pingviniukas | EstonianRussian | 3 | |
34 | Eurosport | EnglishRussian | 2 | |
35 | Eurosport 2 | EnglishRussian | 3 | |
36. | Setanta Eurasia | RussianEnglish | 2 | |
38. | MyHits | Estonian | 3 | |
39. | TLC | EnglishRussian | 3 | |
40. | Travel | EnglishRussian | 6 | |
43. | RTR Planeta | Russian | 6 | |
44. | TV3 Plus | Russian | 2 | |
45 | PBK (Estonia) | Russian | 2 | |
46. | Ren-TV Estonia | Russian | 6 | |
47. | NTV Mir | Russian | 2 | |
50. | Hustler TV | English | 3 | |
201 | ETV HD | EstonianRussian Subtitle | 7 | |
202 | ETV2 HD | EstonianRussian Subtitle | 7 | |
205 | TallinnaTV HD | Estonian | 7 |