Feb 13 2005
Media regulator Ofcom has finally outlined its schedule for switching off the UK’s analogue TV signal. It said a region-by-region process would start in 2008, with analogue transmitters being gradually turned off. In order to reach its proposed December 31, 2012 deadline for the final switch-over, it is proposing a phased switchover by ITV region […]
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That’s TV secures licence for That’s Cinema
BBC Radio 4 begins information campaign to transition listeners from Long Wave
Sky News launches international audio service
ITVX Kids launching in Summer 2023
CNN launches new FAST channel in Europe
More organisations join crusade to protect terrestrial television and radio
Channel launches and updates on Freeview
ITV announces closure of CITV
Mar 15 2007
Countdown starts to England’s first digital switch
Whitehaven will become the first English town to have entirely digital TV on November 14, 2007. The Cumbrian town of 25,000 homes will swap analogue BBC2 for its first digital multiplex on October 17, with analogue BBC1, ITV1 and Channel 4 going off four weeks later. The switch is being coordinated by Digital UK, and […]
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By Expat • UK Media News • Tags: Digital Switchover, DSO, Freeview