Digital terrestrial television in Estonia

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 14 free-to-air channels (news channels and channels from ERR, Duo Media and TV3 Group) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa.[5]

As of 7 January 2025, there are 9 high definition and 37 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.	Jupiter (HbbTV service by ERR)	Estonian	1
6.	Digilevi info (HbbTV service by Levira)	Estonian	1
7.	ETV+	Russian, Estonian	1
8.	France 24	English	6
9.	Current Time TV	Russian	6
10	TVP World	English	6
11.	FreeDom	Russian	6
12.	Duo 5	Estonian	2
13	TV6	Estonian	2
14.	Duo 4	Estonian	3
15.	Euronews	English	3
16.	Viasat History	English, Russian Estonian subtilties	6
17.	Euronews	Russian	6
18	FX Life	English, Russian Estonian subtitles	3
19.	FX	English, Russian Estonian subtitles	3
20.	Duo 3	Estonian, Russian	2
21.	Filmzone	English, Russian	3
22.	Duo 6	Estonian, Russian	2
23.	RTL	German	6
24.	Eesti Kanal	Estonian	3
25.	Investigation Discovery	English, Russian Estonian subtitles	3
26.	Discovery Channel	English, Russian	2
27.	National Geographic Channel	English, Russian Estonian subtitles	3
28.	Animal Planet	English, Russian	2
29.	History	English, Russian Estonian subtitles	2
31.	Kidzone Max	Estonian, Võro, Russian	2
34	Eurosport 1	English, Russian	2
35	Eurosport 2	English, Russian	3
38.	MyHits	Estonian	3
39.	TLC	English, Russian	3
40.	Travel Channel	English, Russian	6
44.	TV3 Life	Estonian	2
50.	Hustler TV	English	3
201	ETV HD	Estonian	7
202	ETV2 HD	Estonian	7
204	TV3 HD	Estonian	4
207	ETV+ HD	Russian, Estonian	7
213	TV6 HD	Estonian	4
238	MyHits HD	Estonian	4
244	TV3 Life HD	Estonian	4
245	Kanal 7 HD	Russian, Estonian	4
247	Kino 7 HD	Russian Estonian subtilties	4

See also

• Digital television transition

References

1. "Estonia - Official launch of DTT services". DigiTAG. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
2. "Teenused telekanalitele". Levira (in Estonian). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
3. "Levira and ETV agreed to start HD transmissions over DTT" (Press release). Levira. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007.
4. Third DTT mux for Estonia : Broadband TV News
5. "Terrestrial TV broadcasting". Levira. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
6. "LEVIRA DTT" (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2025.