Freeview digital TV services available for the first time today

]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Experts from the Switchover Help Scheme will be visiting locations in the Channel Islands to offer older and disabled residents advice about the practical help they can receive to switch to digital TV.

]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT With just one month to go until the switch to digital television on 17 November, thousands of viewers can get extra advice as the switchover roadshow begins a tour of the Channel IsIands.

]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Well-known broadcaster and former Tomorrow’s World presenter, Maggie Philbin visited community centres in Jersey and Guernsey today to officially launch the ‘Helping Hand’ campaign for the Switchover Help Scheme in the Channel Islands.

]]> Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Older and disabled people living in the Channel Islands are being urged to watch out for Switchover Help Scheme information packs that explain how they can get extra help to convert one TV to digital in time for switchover.

]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT All analogue television channels in the West TV region were switched off for good today, signalling the dawn of an all-digital era for more than two million viewers.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Analogue television viewers in the West TV region have just two weeks to get ready for the digital switchover, starting on Wednesday 24 March.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Well-known broadcaster and former Tomorrow’s World presenter, Maggie Philbin, and mascot Digit Al are urging people living in Bristol to come and lend a helping hand next Tuesday (9 February, 2010) when the BBC-run Switchover Help Scheme arrives in the city to advise television viewers in the West region.

]]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The date for the switchover to digital television in the Channel Islands has been announced today, setting out the timetable for the biggest change to broadcasting for a generation.

]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Digital UK and the Switchover Help Scheme are taking to the road in an ‘analogue detector van’ to find viewers who risk losing TV channels from Wednesday 24 March 2010.

]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Analogue TV viewers in the West region will start seeing their programmes obscured by messages about the digital switchover from today, Digital UK has announced.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT The last analogue TV signals in the West Country region will be turned off today, bringing an end to a 73-year-old technology and marking the start of a new digital era.

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT 75,000 homes in Plymouth, parts of Devon and east Cornwall can receive digital TV through their aerial for the first time today, as the final digital switchover in West Country gets underway.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT TV viewers in Plymouth, parts of Devon and east Cornwall are getting ready for the digital TV switchover starting on 12 August - these will be the last parts of the West Country to go completely digital.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT The final stage of digital TV switchover in west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is on course to complete today, extending digital terrestrial television (Freeview) coverage to all households served by the Redruth transmitter group.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT The final stage of digital TV switchover in north Devon is on course to complete today, extending digital terrestrial television (Freeview) coverage to all households served by the Huntshaw Cross transmitter group.

]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Plymouth, parts of Devon and east Cornwall is ready to have its analogue TV signals permanently switched off in one month’s time, according to latest research.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT The digital TV switchover in west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly got underway this morning, as analogue BBC Two was turned off at transmitters across the UK’s most southern corner.

]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT The digital TV switchover in north Devon got underway this morning, as analogue BBC Two was turned off at transmitters across large parts of the county.

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