Mar 3 2010
Viewers in Cardiff, Newport and south east Wales have begun the switch to digital that will make Wales the UK’s first digital nation. Forty-six years after BBC Two was launched, the channel’s last remaining analogue signal in Wales was turned off permanently at the Wenvoe transmitter, and engineers started switching on digital signals at 75 […]
Jan 12 2010
The Channel Islands will switch to digital television on 17 November 2010, according to Digital UK. On this date the four current analogue TV channels will be switched off permanently, allowing 50,000 households served by the Fremont Point transmitter group to receive around 15 Freeview digital channels for the first time, according to the switchover […]
Jul 8 2009
Cornwall’s Redruth transmitter has undergone the first phase of digital switchover successfully, Digital UK has confirmed. The Beacon Hill, Stockland Hill and Huntshaw Cross transmitters have already switched from analogue to digital, and today’s Redruth conversion is the penultimate stage in the West Country region’s digital switchover. In this first stage of switchover at Redruth, […]
Jun 16 2009
The digital switchover has begun on the Isle of Man for viewers in the Douglas transmitter area. Digital UK hosted a briefing at the transmitter yesterday to explain the switchover process to residents on the island. The first stage has involved the BBC Two analogue signal being turned off and replaced by a multiplex of […]
Feb 5 2009
The Switchover Help Scheme has selected Freeview as the standard offer of practical help for eligible older and disabled people in the ITV Granada region. Almost seven million people around the country will be eligible for help under the Help Scheme, according to eaga who manage the scheme. The ITV Granada region will be the […]
Feb 4 2009
Exeter is set to become the first city in the UK to switch to digital television in three months’ time. Households in Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset will have their analogue signal turned off on 6 May, when the Stockland Hill transmitter group switches to digital. Research by Digital UK has found that […]
Feb 2 2009
Ofcom has announced proposals to align more of the spectrum released as part of the UK’s digital dividend with other European countries. According to Ofcom, this will allow new wireless services, particularly mobile broadband, to be launched in the UK and across Europe. The decision to release a digital dividend was taken by the Government […]
Dec 11 2008
The timetable for Scotland to make the switch to digital TV has been announced by Digital UK. Scottish Borders became the first region to complete the change last month. Switchover will now progress to south-west Scotland next year, continuing throughout 2010 and finishing in Lothian, parts of Edinburgh and Fife by June 2011. Switchover will […]
Nov 20 2008
The final stage of digital TV switchover in the Scottish Borders was completed yesterday, extending digital terrestrial television (Freeview) coverage to all households served by the Selkirk transmitter group. Engineers finished converting all eleven relay transmitters, serving areas such as Peebles, Eyemouth and Hawick, to digital at 4.30pm. Freeview, BT Vision and Top Up TV […]
Oct 21 2008
Digital UK has announced the date for the digital switchover in north-west England. Three million homes across the north-west will start switching to digital on 4 November 2009 when analogue signals are turned off at the Winter Hill transmitter group (the Granada TV region). Latest research according to Digital UK indicates nine out of ten […]
Oct 29 2007
Leaders of the UK’s commercial radio industry are calling on the Government to declare when analogue radio signals might be switched off. Andrew Harrison, chief executive of commercial radio trade body the RadioCentre, told The Times that a failure to decide radio’s future was “crippling the industry”. Harrison said the RadioCentre was lobbying ministers over […]
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
BBC switch from SD to HD on satellite
Joint UK/international BBC News service from March
Loss of channels on Freesat 4K TV Boxes after a reset
Mar 31 2010
Wales becomes UK’s first digital TV nation
The Welsh switchover began last August. The first stage of switchover at the Wenvoe transmitter group which covers Cardiff, Newport and south east Wales, began earlier this month when analogue BBC Two was turned off and ended today with the final analogue TV signals being switched off permanently. The remaining analogue channels—BBC One, ITV1, Channel […]
More
By Expat • UK Media News • Tags: Digital Switchover, DSO, Freeview, Wales