Digital terrestrial television in

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

, was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two

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. Transmissions are made with

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compression using the

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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

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was transferred to the new multiplex. At this time there are only 10 free-to-air channels (four news channels and channels from ERR and Duo Media (Kanal 7, Kino 7 and MyHits)) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa. As of 28 April 2025, there are 6

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and 36

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channels on these multiplexes:

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Television in Estonia

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