Digital Subchannel

July 24, 2012

See also: Subchannel

CIMM DEFINITION: In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called multicasting. (Source: Wikipedia.org)