Digital television (DTV) transmits television signals using digital signal rather than analog methods. Analogue signal conveys data as continuous signals of varying frequency or amplitude while digital signals are digitally processed in the form of discrete bits of information.
A decision made at the Regional Radio Conference of 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland (RRC-06) required all countries in the RRC planning area to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting by 17th June 2015.
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), a government media house, through its subsidiary Signet and Pan Africa Network Group (PANG-Kenya) are the only licensed distributors. A distributor delivers contents of TV stations to the consumers. In December 2009, the signal was launched in Nairobi and its environs.