euronews, the international multilingual news channel, announced an agreement with Lattelecom, the leading provider of electronic communications services in Latvia, for the broadcast of euronews on the first Latvian digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform, launched in August 2009.
euronews is offered in the economic and basic packages of Lattelecoms DTT services, and is available in four languages: English, French, German and Russian, on channel 11. Lattelecom has also confirmed its interest in including the channels four other languages in the future.
Lattelecom also distributes the channel on its IPTV platform.
In the Baltic States, euronews is available on the Estonian DTT platform, Starman, since 2006 and the Lithuanian DTT Platform, TEO LT, since 2008. euronews reaches a total of 873,000 households via cable satellite, IPTV and DTT in the Baltic region.
Lattelecom is the owner of the licence to operate Latvias DTT platform. The first implementation phase began in August 2009 and now reaches the capital city of Riga, the local district and an area of 70 kilometres around the city, including the districts of Tukums, Bauska, and Dobele. According to Lattelecom, the DTT platform will be available to all regions in the country within the next two years.