The Department of Telecommunications has yet to enforce a measure announced at the beginning of this year for all television stations to unify their broadcasts on one frequency. The director of TeleAntillas (channel 2), has called on Telecommunications and Public Works to enforce the measure, since he claims that TeleAntillas and other stations have made considerable investments in equipment designed to unify their frequencies in compliance with the order.
On Thursday, 28 March the director of Public Works, Ramon Antonio Garcia, the Secretary of the Presidency, Rafael Bello Andino, and the director of Telecommunications, Leopoldo Nunez Santos, met at the National Palace to discuss the possible strategies in reaction to a request by TeleAntillas to shut down the frequencies of ColorVision and Rahintel, who have continued to transmit on two frequencies (one in the capital, another in the interior) in defiance of Telecommunications.
The expressed purpose of the unification measure is to eliminate interference, a complaint most often heard from viewers in the Cibao region. ColorVision (9 in Santo Domingo, 2 in the interior) and Rahintel (7 in Santo Domingo, 11 elsewhere) are the only two stations who have refused to comply with the order.
5-11 April 1996