Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to deliver programs being broadcast in the metropolitan area to areas where terrestrial digital broadcasting can not be watched

It seems that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is considering retransmitting programs that are being broadcast in the metropolitan area against areas where the digital terrestrial broadcast can not be viewed.

It seems that people living in terrestrial digital terrestrial viewing area will be able to watch the same program as the metropolitan area.

Details are as follows.
Implementation of opinion recruitment pertaining to each partial change plan of Broadcast Dissemination Basic Plan and Broadcast Frequency Use Plan

According to this release, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications seems to consider re-distributing programs using BS digital broadcasting to areas where terrestrial digital broadcasting can not be viewed.

This is because NHK synthesis, NHK education, NTV, TV Asahi, Tokyo Broadcasting (TBS), TV Tokyo and Fuji We received the recommendation that it is appropriate to retransmit programs broadcast by television at the same time in BS digital broadcasting, and it is a part of "Broadcast Popularization Plan" and "Broadcast Frequency Usage Plan" created based on the recommendations We are recruiting opinions for the proposed change until Thursday, July 31.