Domazlice TV transmitter first in Czech Republic to go digital

A television transmitter at Domazlice in west Bohemia has become the first in the Czech Republic to begin digital broadcasting. From midnight on Friday around 200,000 people in the region need a digital set-top box to receive Nova and the two stations of Czech Television (the other national terrestrial channel Prima is not taking part in the pilot project). They also receive a number of other channels which they could not previously pick up using an antenna. All of the Czech Republic's transmitters will have gone digital by the end of 2010.