Company type | Public |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 29 March 1924 [1] |
Founder | Oton Kučera |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Croatia |
Key people | Mate Botica ( CEO) [3] |
Owner | Republic of Croatia |
Number of employees | 304 [4] (2017) |
Website | www.oiv.hr |
Odašiljači i veze d.o.o. (OiV) is a Croatian limited liability company (društvo s ograničenom odgovornošću), terrestrial television and WiMAX operator born from the separation from Hrvatska Radiotelevizija in 2001.
Croatia started to test DVB-T transmission on June 13, 2002. [5] The systems transmitted 4 national TV channels at that time ( HRT 1, HRT 2, HRT 3 and Nova TV). Odašiljači i veze built a network of 9 transmitters, completed in 2007 and covering about 70% of the country. Analogue broadcasting stopped in October 2010.
Currently, as of December 2013, it transmits 11 national channels ( HRT 1, HRT 2, HRT 3, HRT 4, RTL Televizija, RTL 2, RTL Kockica, Nova TV, Doma TV, SPTV and CMC), as well as regional services.