[Satellite TODAY 08-25-10] Harris Corp. has opened a new digital TV facility in Brazil, the company announced Aug. 24.
    The facility, based in Campinas, a region 80 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, will manufacture low- and mid-power UHF television transmitter products to support the region’s transition to digital television. The plant will produce Harris Maxiva UAX air-cooled solid-state transmitters for distribution to broadcasters across Brazil, as well as throughout Mercosur (the Common Market of the South) and other Latin American countries. 
    In preparation for an analog shut-off date in 2016, Brazilian broadcasters are in the process of migrating to the ISDB-Tb digital format that has been adopted in the country. To date, only 120 channels out of the approximately 10,000 television licenses that currently exist in Brazil have made the transition from analog to digital.