TV Networks

Terrestrial television, which is the traditional method of transmitting television broadcast signal in the form of radio waves transmitted through open space. This section would include DTT.

Satellite television, broadcast consisting of a communications satellite from a television signal emitted from a point on Earth, so that it can reach other parts of the planet.Cable television, in which RF signals are transmitted throw optical fibers or coaxial cables.Internet TV content in a format that can be transported over IP networks, so it is also known as IPTV.

As for pay-TV, the first quarter of 2008 showed a slowdown in the terms of cable and satellite while IPTV grew considerably on data from a year earlier, reaching 636,000 users in Spain in late 2007.

 Countries with a larger number of subscribers were France (4 million) and South Korea (1.8 million). In 2008 was introduced on the mobile TV, in the first quarter of 2008 got thousands of customers. Under this system provides a wide range of television and video and provides various marketing options, with payment for access to a package of channels or pay per use.

TV networks that offer open programming are in a transition to digital technology ( DTT ). This new technology is an improvement in image quality, while allowing new services. In Spain, for a time both systems coexisted until the day April 3, 2010 that the television stations stopped providing its services by providing only analog technology to digital form. To tune the TV using digital technology, it is necessary to do two basic adaptations: adaptation of the antenna of the building and have a tuner Free view at home. Highlights an important change in trend in the way of acquiring the tuners, as initially acquired as separate devices to connect externally to televisions, while currently buy these tuners built into the TV itself or other devices such as DVD. Thus, the cumulative number of integrated decoders has surpassed the non-integrated.

Despite the number of homes ready for digital TV reception, even the screen quota achieved is not too significant, despite the high growth in 2009. This is because many homes were prepared for receiving the digital signal but were still tuning to analog channels. For this reason, a little less than half of households equipped to receive DTT were using this option.