Television viewers in 14 regions including Nairobi will still be able to view stations belonging to the three leading media houses without having to buy decoders as the digital switch-over, moves to its second phase from Monday midnight.
Second phase of the digital migration shall from February 2nd, cover Mombasa, Malindi, Nyeri, Meru, Kisumu, Webuye, Kakamega, Kisii, Nakuru, Eldoret, Nyahururu Machakos, Narok and Londiani.
Monday’s switch-over comes on the back of a survey that indicated that more than half of Kenyans are still lagging behind in digital migration because they are unaware of the deadlines or are hampered by the high price of the decoders or set-top boxes which is still too high.
Digital Migration in Kenya has been faced with a number of challenges one of them being litigation. On 29th September 2014 the Supreme Court of Kenya ruling on petition No. 14 of 2014 directed that CAK in exercise of its statutory authority shall in consultation with all parties to suit set timeliness for the Digital Migration pending international Analogue Switch off date of June 17, 2015.