Telecommunications Commission required all broadcasting companies to end analog broadcasting on 31 December 2015 at 11:59 p.m. Due to delay of the release of the implementing rules and regulations for digital television broadcast, the target date was moved to 2020. Full digital broadcast is expected in 2021 and all of the analog TV services should be shut down by the end of 2023. In the Russian Federation, the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS) disabled analog broadcasting of federal channels in five stages, shutting down broadcasting in multiple federal subjects at each stage. The first region to have analog broadcasting disabled was Tver Oblast on 3 December 2018, and the switchover was completed on 14 October 2019. During the transition, DVB-T2 receivers and monetary compensations for purchasing of terrestrial or satellite digital TV reception equipment were provided to disabled people, World War II veterans, certain categories of retirees and households with income per member below living wage. See also Amateur television Narrow-bandwidth television Overscan Slow-scan television Terrestrial television Television transmitter Vertical blanking interval Field (video) Video frame Glossary of video terms Notes References External links Video signal measurement and generation Television synchronisation Video broadcast standard frequencies and country listings EDN magazine describing design of a 1958 transistorised television receiver Designing the color television signal in the early 1950s as described by two engineers working directly with the NTSC Film and video technology History of television Television technology Television terminology