Digital terrestrial television in Estonia, was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two multiplexes.[1] Transmissions are made with MPEG-4 AVC compression using the DVB-T standard. A DVB-T2 standard-based network (Multiplex 7) has been created for HD-quality TV picture transmission.[2]
In June 2007, Levira and ETV announced that they had agreed to launch an HDTV trial in July 2007.[3]
In November 2007, a third multiplex was launched, covering almost all of the country. This multiplex was to be used by free-to-air services, while the two existing national multiplexes would only carry pay channels. Hence the public channel ETV was transferred to the new multiplex.[4] At this time there are only five free-to-air channels (ETV, ETV2, ETV+, TallinnaTV, France 24) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa.[5]
As of January 2019, There are 3 High Definition and 39 Standard Definition channels on these multiplexes:[6]
| LCN | Channel | Language | MUX |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ETV | Estonian | 1 |
| 2. | ETV2 | Estonian | 1 |
| 3. | Kanal 2 | Estonian | 6 |
| 4. | TV3 | Estonian | 6 |
| 5. | Tallinna TV | Estonian | 1 |
| 6. | AntenniTV info | Estonian | 1 |
| 7. | ETV+ | Estonian
Russian |
1 |
| 9. | France 24 | English | 6 |
| 10 | TVP World | English | 6 |
| 12. | Duo 4 | Estonian | 2 |
| 13 | TV6 Estonia | Estonian | 2 |
| 14. | Duo 5 | Estonian | 3 |
| 15. | Euronews | English
Russian |
3 |
| 16. | Viasat History | English
Russian Estonian subtilties |
6 |
| 18 | Fox Life | English
Russian |
3 |
| 19. | Fox | English
Russian |
3 |
| 20. | Duo 3 | English Russian |
2 |
| 21. | Filmzone | English
Russian Estonian subtitles |
3 |
| 22. | Duo 6 | English
Russian subtilties |
2 |
| 23. | RTL TV | German | 6 |
| 24. | Filmzone+ | English
Russian Estonian subtitles |
3 |
| 25. | Investigation Discovery | English
Russian |
2 |
| 26. | Discovery Channel | English
Russian |
2 |
| 27. | National Geographic Channel | English
Russian |
3 |
| 28. | Animal Planet | English
Russian |
2 |
| 29. | History Channel | English
Russian |
2 |
| 31. | Kidzone TV | Estonian
Russian |
2 |
| 32. | Pingviniukas | Estonian
Russian |
3 |
| 34 | Eurosport | English
Russian |
2 |
| 35 | Eurosport 2 | English
Russian |
3 |
| 36. | Setanta Eurasia | Russian
English |
2 |
| 38. | MyHits | Estonian | 3 |
| 39. | TLC | English
Russian |
3 |
| 40. | Travel | English
Russian |
6 |
| 43. | RTR Planeta | Russian | 6 |
| 44. | TV3 Plus | Russian | 2 |
| 45 | PBK (Estonia) | Russian | 2 |
| 46. | Ren-TV Estonia | Russian | 6 |
| 47. | NTV Mir | Russian | 2 |
| 50. | Hustler TV | English | 3 |
| 201 | ETV HD | Estonian
Russian Subtitle |
7 |
| 202 | ETV2 HD | Estonian
Russian Subtitle |
7 |
| 205 | TallinnaTV HD | Estonian | 7 |