DigitALB
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| Industry | Telecommunication, Publishing |
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| Founder | Dritan Hoxha |
| Headquarters | Tirana, Albania |
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Area served
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Albania, Kosovo, Europe, North America |
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Key people
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Alban Jaho (Director) |
| Owner |
Union Distribucion Service Albania (10%) DEM Capital (10%) Union Group (10%) Loresa (30%) E&E Investment (10%) Others (30%) |
| Parent | Top Media Group sh.a |
| Subsidiaries | Gazeta Shqip |
| Website | Official website |
Digitalb is an Albanian media, digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana, Albania. The TV platform began terrestrial broadcasts in July 2004, and satellite broadcasts by the end of that year. At the same time, DigitAlb began broadcasting some channels of defunct AlbaniaSat's satellite platform SAT + which eventually went bankrupt. Digitalb closely collaborates with sports package SuperSport while having introduced wireless DVB-H technology for wireless TV for the first time in Albania since 2006. The company forms part of Top Media Group together with Top Channel, Top Albania Radio, Top Gold Radio, newspaper Shqip, Shqip Magazine, Top News, VGA Studio, My Music Radio, and musicAL. In Europe, Digitalb will broadcast until 2020 on Eutelsat.
Digitalb has been running since 2004 and it has already amassed more than 100,000 terrestrial and 200,000 satellite subscribers in Albania alone not counting subcribers via cable companies IPKO in Kosovo and ABCom in Albania. A variety of channels, content and price have domestically made DigitAlb the most popular platform in Albania. The thematic channels edited and owned by Digit-Alb are the most preferred among the audience. Having 7 movie channels + 2 HD movie channels, 3 documentaries channels + 1 HD channel, 3 children channels, 11 sport channels (all of them in HD), news channels, music channels, adult channels and many other Albanian National Channels and International channels (Fox channels group, Discovery channels group, Viacom channels, Eurosport channels, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Travel Channel etc.).
On 14 February 2013, Digit-Alb launched a new model of set top box, and also new services. Launching a Middleware set top box, Digitalb started interactive services for its customers. So Push VOD, Online Betting, Lotteries, Games, IPTV, Web navigation through the set top box and many other options became available to customers. This was the most important new development since the launch of the HD service back in 2007.
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