Digital terrestrial television in Estonia, was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two multiplexes. 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.
In June 2007, Levira and ETV announced that they had agreed to launch an HDTV trial in July 2007.
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.Third DTT mux for Estonia : Broadband TV News At this time there are only seven free-to-air channels (ERR channels and four news channels) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa.
As of 1 July 2025, there are 3 high definition and 36 standard definition channels on these multiplexes: LCNChannelLanguageMUX1.ETVEstonian12.ETV2Estonian13.Kanal 2Estonian64.TV3Estonian65.Jupiter (HbbTV service by ERR)Estonian16.Digilevi info (HbbTV service by Levira)Estonian17.ETV+Russian, Estonian18.France 24English610TVP WorldEnglish611.FreeDomRussian612.Duo 5Estonian213TV6Estonian214.Duo 4Estonian315.EuronewsEnglish316.Viasat HistoryEnglish, RussianEstonian subtilties617.EuronewsRussian618FX LifeEnglish, RussianEstonian subtitles319.FXEnglish, RussianEstonian subtitles320.Duo 3Estonian, Russian221.FilmzoneEnglish, Russian322.Duo 6Estonian, Russian223.RTLGerman624.Eesti KanalEstonian325.Investigation DiscoveryEnglish, RussianEstonian subtitles326.Discovery ChannelEnglish, Russian227.National Geographic ChannelEnglish, RussianEstonian subtitles328.Animal PlanetEnglish, Russian229.HistoryEnglish, RussianEstonian subtitles231.Kidzone MaxEstonian, Võro, Russian234Eurosport 1English, Russian235Eurosport 2English, Russian338.MyHitsEstonian339.TLCEnglish, Russian340.Travel ChannelEnglish, Russian644.TV3 LifeEstonian250.Hustler TVEnglish3201ETV HDEstonian7202ETV2 HDEstonian7207ETV+ HDRussian, Estonian7
See also Digital television transition
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