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Digital Switchover


Between now and 2013, all remaining analogue television transmitters in the UK will be switched off. Any homes and businesses not equipped to receive digital signals by then will be unable to watch terrestrial television. This means both that each television set will have to be equipped with a digital receiver – either built in, as is the case with most newer sets, or in the form of an external Freeview box – and that the TV aerial and distribution system must be suitable for receiving signals in the digital terrestrial (DTT) range, which many of those currently installed are not.

MDTV is ideally equipped to help make the digital switchover as painless as possible for you and your residents. We have decades of experience in the field of communal television, and our engineers are trained to the highest standards in the use of the very latest equipment.

For more information about how MDTV can help you with the digital switchover, call 01189 740 878 or email info@mdtv.co.uk.


The Analogue Switch-off – Region by Region

The timetable for the switching off of the analogue signal in those regions where this has not already taken place is as follows:

North-West Wales, Anglesey21 October 2009
East-Central Wales 4 November 2009
Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire 4 November 2009
Central and Mid-Wales 10 February 2010
South-East Wales, Cardiff  3 March 2010
Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol 24 March 2010
Channel Television 2010
Grampian Television2010
Scottish Television 2010-2011
Central Independent Television 2011
Yorkshire Television 2011
Anglia Television 2011
Meridian Broadcasting 2012
Carlton/LWT2012
Tyne Tees Television2012
UTV2012

 

NB: above dates are for start of switch-off (BBC2 and Multiplex 1). Remaining channels will be switched off up to a month after date listed.