The Bermuda Broadcasting Company (BBC) hopes to re-launch one of its stations in about three weeks, according to CEO Rick Richardson and the broadcasters are also planning to introduce digital broadcasting at a later date.Technical hitches have frustrated efforts to restore programming for viewers who don’t have CableVision who have been without ZBM and ZFB since lightning struck the BBC’s transmitter in December.As a first measure, Mr Richardson said, the company should have ZFB channel seven up and running in three weeks. “We’ll put the news on there as well, so viewers will have the one channel,” he said. “The transmitter for that channel wasn’t affected as badly.”Most of their delay has been the wait for a 300-foot fibre optic cable from the Harris Corporation, Mr Richardson explained.“It had to be specially made for us, and then it’s got to be shipped. We got the word last week that it was finally completed. It should be shipped out to us in a week, and we will then use a crane to get the cable back up in the tower as quickly as we can.”Even as the company works to restore its analogue transmitter, a digital transmitter has been ordered. No date has been set for the service, but Mr Richardson said: “It’s going to be a huge step for Bermuda.”Used increasingly throughout the world, digital broadcasting is said to have a larger capacity and produce sharper quality pictures.