When is digital switchover in london

Viewers can find out more on Digital UK's website, www. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor mediatheguardian. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". In areas where analogue signals have been terminated, older receiving equipment is likely to require replacement or upgrade. This process is being subsidised by the government for those on low incomes.

Making a mountain out of a molehill, Digital Switchover was accompanied by a huge advertising campaign including TV spots, street advertisements, leaflet drops and roadshows, explaining how, and why, people should switch.

The campaign was headlined by the now universally familiar Digit Al, a robot character created especially for Digital UK. Worrying that some people will be unable to deal with the Switchover issues themselves, the government established a Help Scheme, administered by the BBC, for those who may need practical assistance. Password Please enter a valid password. Submit Submit. M ore than 70 years of analogue broadcasting in the UK has ended with the complete switchover to digital television.

Anyone still using the original signal lost access to channels at BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, also made its final bow. The UK's conversion to digital TV began in , with a region-by-region switch off. If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". This article is more than 10 years old. Rolling transfer programme to be completed by June , with Crystal Palace analogue transmitter being switched off.