Oct 24 2012
The UK ended more than 70 years of analogue broadcasting today with the completion of the switchover to digital television. Switchover has boosted Freeview coverage to 10 million viewers in reception blackspots across the UK and cleared airwaves for new uses, including 4G mobile broadband services. Northern Ireland was the final region to switch to […]
Oct 22 2012
Following the announcement made back in March 2012 that UTV HD had tied up a deal with ITV, it has today been announced that UTV HD will join the Freesat platform in the first quarter of 2013. UTV is Northern Ireland’s most watched channel and their high-definition channel will be a great addition to the […]
Nov 23 2011
The final digital switchover in East Anglia has been completed. Analogue TV signals in Norfolk and north Suffolk were switched off permanently on 23 November, extending Freeview coverage to virtually all homes in East Anglia. The changes affect existing Freeview viewers who may find some of their channels missing. The services have moved to new […]
Oct 19 2011
The UK’s analogue TV system will be switched off on October 24, 2012, when Northern Ireland completes Digital Switchover. The date will also mark the end of the five-year switchover campaign, which began in 2007 in Whitehaven, Cumbria. David Scott, Digital UK’s chief executive, said: ‘The analogue era was a defining period for TV but […]
Apr 7 2011
London will go digital on 4 April 2012, in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Analogue BBC Two will disappear in London and neighbouring parts of Berkshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey on 4 April 2012. The remaining analogue channels, BBC One, ITV1, Channel Four and Channel 5, will then be turned off […]
Mar 30 2011
The digital television switchover has today begun in the Anglia TV region, bringing the Freeview service to thousands more homes. Shortly after midnight, analogue BBC Two was switched off permanently at the Sandy Heath transmitter serving Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, to be replaced by digital channels on Freeview. Around 45,000 households in the Anglia TV […]
Nov 17 2010
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, analogue BBC One, BBC Two, Channel Television and Channel 4 were turned off permanently at the Fremont Point transmitter, allowing Freeview digital channels to be broadcast across the islands for the first time. Islanders switching to Freeview need to tune in their digital tvs and boxes once signals are available […]
Mar 31 2010
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 […]
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, […]
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Sep 12 2016
Eureka! Interview – The UK path to DSO
Ahead of his presentation at IBC in WorldDAB’s Insight Session, we speak to Laurence Harrison, Technology and Market Development Director, Digital Radio UK, on the status of DAB in the UK and the importance of setting a date for DSO. What is the status of digital radio adoption and progress to DSO in your country? […]
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By Expat • DAB Radio • Tags: Digital Radio UK, DSO, Eureka!, IBC, WorldDAB