Italy approves regulation defining icon for DTT devices

Regulation defining the icon for accessing digital terrestrial television channels approved

Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, has approved a regulation aimed at ensuring immediate, easy and clear accessibility to digital terrestrial television content, as provided for by the Consolidated Law on Audiovisual Media Services and its own resolution no. 294/23/CONS.

Developed following a technical roundtable set up specifically for this purpose, in which the associations of broadcasters and equipment manufacturers participated, the regulation defines a logo which serves as an immediate access point to digital terrestrial channels and establishes that it must be:

• available to users on the home pages of all devices suitable for receiving content transmitted on this platform;
• no smaller in size than the other icons or other boxes present in the portion of the screen in which it is positioned;
• identical on all devices and all user interfaces – designed to allow clear and immediate visibility.

The possibility remains for the user to customize the configuration of the interfaces in accordance with the provisions of the current legislation and in line with the provisions of the European Media Freedom Act.