Digital television in Turkey

Pay-TV Services

Current Pay-TV services in Turkey are Digiturk, D-Smart, TeleDünya and Türksat KabloTV.

First Digital Transmissions

The first digital television transmissions in Turkey were made by the Uzan Group with Turkey's first television channel Star TV. As they were on the lead with their channels Star, TeleOn and Kral, the Uzan Group launched Star Digital on Turksat in late 1999. In 2003 the platform's name was changed as DigiFun Club, but it has been taken down.

Turkey's first Pay-TV service was CINE5 by MultiCanal owned by Erol Aksoy. CINE5 was launched in late 1994. It held the rights to the latest movie premieres, series and especially sports such as the Turkish Football League. In 2000, CINE5 launched CINE+Digital on Turksat with some specialty channels, but again in 2003 this platform was taken down as well.

Digiturk

Turkey's first and leading digital platform is Digiturk. It was launched in 1999 and owned by Çukurova Group. Digiturk was a lot more professional and had a lot of advantages over the other platforms as Star Digital and CINE+Digital. Digiturk has the rights of airing the main sports' live coverage in Turkey with its channel Lig TV. Digiturk is tranmitted to the air via Eutelsat 7 East satellite with the usage of Turksat 42 East satellite. There are the options with its own receiver or the subscription with module and card for Eutelsat 7. Digiturk has recently launched HD channels of itself such as Lig TV HD, MovieMax HD, EuroSport HD, National Geographic HD, SporMax HD and İZ HD.

D-Smart

Turkey's second digital platform is D-Smart owned by the Dogan Holding. Actually, the first HD television broadcasts were carried out by the Dogan Holding with the two channels Kanal D HD and Discovery Channel HD on their D-Smart platform. Currently, there are some HD channels via D-Smart which are Discovery HD, EuroSport HD, HD Smart, Kanal D HD and Star TV HD. Recently, D-Smart has had some deals with Turkey's MTV Group, MCD and the channels of SinemaTV, SinemaTV 2, SinemaTV Aile and SinemaTV HD have begun to be transmitted to the air firstly by D-Smart. D-Smart uses Turksat 42 East for the transmissions.

Teledünya (Cable service)

Cable network is renamed as Teledünya which has some HD channels at the moment also called as National Geographic HD and EuroSport HD. Lately the cable network has had some deals with Turkey's MTV Network Group, MCD, and French television provider ABSAT. Teledünya is expected to carry out new television channels more than 100 in the following months of 2009. Teledünya broadcasts via the cable network around the country but it is not available largely which blocks the system from reaching every part of the land.

See also

• List of television stations in Turkey
• Digital television transition

References

External links

• Digiturk
• D-Smart
• TeleDünya

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