DigiTAG, the Digital Terrestrial Television Action Group, has just celebrated its fifteenth birthday. The General Assembly convened yesterday in Geneva under the chairmanship of the outgoing President Daniel Sauvet-Goichon, who had been in that position for the previous eight years. The members elected Lieven Vermaele (EBU Technical Director - pictured left), Alex Mestre (Abertis Telecom) and John Adam (Samsung) as the new DigiTAG 'Presidency’ for the period 2012-13.
Looking forward to the next phase of developments in terrestrial broadcasting, Lieven Vermaele stated “in DigiTAG we're convinced that terrestrial broadcasting will retain a crucial role amongst the various broadcasting distribution methods, in bringing broadcast content to the mass public audiences. In addition to continuing our well respected work on gathering and sharing information about developments in the digital terrestrial marketplace, we also intend to work energetically to ensure that terrestrial broadcasting is positioned correctly within the increasingly diverse scenarios of connected TV, hybrid, on-demand, personal/mobile TV and second screen environments.”