Media > Television Stats: compare key data on South Africa & Switzerland

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Analogue to digital transition > Analog switch off > End: Date when analogue television was completely phased out in different countries.
List of TV stations: List of TV stations.
Percentage of public channels with national coverage: Percentage of public television channels with national coverage.
Total number of channels: Total number of television channels.
Total number of channels per million people: Total number of television channels. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.

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STAT	South Africa	Switzerland
Analogue to digital transition > Analog switch off > End	1/11/2011	25/02/2008
List of TV stations	<p>SABC - state broadcaster, operates three national TV networks, two pay-TV channels</p> </p>e.tv - free-to-air, commercial; also operates news network eNCA</p> </p>M-Net - pay-TV, pan-African audience</p>	<p>SF-DRS - German-language public broadcaster, operates three channels</p> </p>RTSI - Italian-language public broadcaster, operates two channels</p> </p>TSR - French-language public broadcaster, operates two channels</p>
Percentage of public channels with national coverage	75% Ranked 19th.	87.5% Ranked 12th. 17% more than South Africa
Total number of channels	4 Ranked 42nd.	8 Ranked 12th. Twice as much as South Africa
Total number of channels per million people	0.0847 Ranked 63th.	1.07 Ranked 9th. 13 times more than South Africa

SOURCES: Various sources compiled into Wikipedia's Digital terrestrial television; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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