KBS said Thursday that its digital multimedia broadcasting, or DMB, team has successfully tested terrestrial DMB service in South Africa, becoming the first broadcasting company to do so on the African continent.

The KBS DMB team said that it succeeded in transmitting one video and three audio channels simultaneously through a transmitter tower located at 17-hundred-77 meters above sea level. The channels were also successfully received by all kinds of Korean-made DMB receivers.

Receivers mounted on automobiles, cell phones and notebook computers registered reception rates of around 95 percent in a 40-kilometer radius from Johannesburg.

South Africa, which broadcasts eight European-style DAB audio channels, signed a mutual cooperation contract with KBS last December to shift to terrestrial DMB, which enables video broadcasts.