Highlighting Ukraine’s TV digital divide, Kyiv’s move last month to turn off analog television broadcasting nationwide cut off as many as 2.4 million rural households from TV

Highlighting Ukraine’s TV digital divide, Kyiv’s move last month to turn off analog television broadcasting nationwide cut off as many as 2.4 million rural households from TV, Oleg Chernysh, member of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, tells UNIAN. While most of Ukraine’s 44 million people have access to internet, mobile telephone service and digital broadcasting, large swaths of this France-sized country do not. Ternopil estimates that 40% of its region does not receive digital TV. Rivne sued its local provider to keep analog broadcasting. Earlier this year, Zeonbudu, the national digital provider, was ordered to erect 47 more signal repeaters. Chernysh said it failed to do so, cutting off as much as 15% of the population from TV.