Digital Switchover Category

We’ve just released FrequencyCast Show 65 – a bumper show covering lots of recent TV and Tech topics. There’s a lot covered in this show, and we hope you enjoy what we have to say. Here’s a summary of what Carl and Pete have to say: News Updates: Scotland Switch complete, mobile roaming fees reduced, [...]

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We’ve just released one of our almost legendary audio updates. A stack of TV and Tech news to cover, including: BBC slashes BBC HD bandwidth by 40% Channel 4 3D starts next week Welsh TV hits Manchester, plus a Switch update Happy Birthday to the Apple iPhone Ourkindofmusic ceases their kind of music Plus your [...]

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The Digital Britain report is finally out. On the 16th of June, Lord Carter’s long-awaited report into plans for our digital future were revealed. There’s been lots of media chat about this already, but in case you’ve missed it, what we think are the three headlines are as follows: 1. Analogue Radio off by 2015: [...]

The UK Digital Switchover continues, with Devon, Dorset and Somerset next on the list. The Beacon Hill transmitter and its 23 relay transmitters serve Torbay and South Devon. They’re set to go fully digital from 08 April 2009. Stockland Hill, serving Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset, is due to follow in May 2009. [...]

… in the US, anyway. The US was set to complete its switch to Digital TV next month, on the 17th of February 2009. However, with an estimated 6 and a half million homes not yet digital, the US Senate has voted to delay the turning off of analogue telly until June the 12th. Unlike [...]

After the Whitehaven switchover test, the UK-wide switchover has finally started in earnest. On the 6th of November 2008, the BBC 2 analogue service from the Selkirk transmitter was switched off, beginning the Border TV Digital Switchover. According to The Scotsman newspaper, 52,000 households get their telly from the Selkirk transmitter, and 97% of them [...]

On Wednesday the 23rd July, a transmitter update for Freeview viewers in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall will break a number of older Freeview boxes. This update has already knocked out boxes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Tyne Tees, Border, Granada, Yorkshire and parts of the Anglia regions. Freeview set-top boxes [...]

In May 2008, a bunch of Freeview boxes served by the Sutton Coldfield transmitter stopped working. Now it looks like boxes in Scotland have gone the same way. Boxes powered by the SetPal technology, including those made by Daewoo, Labgear, Portland and Triax, lack sufficient internal memory to cope with the number of Freeview stations [...]

Details of Devon and Cornwall’s Digital Switch programme were announced in July 2008. In July 2009, the Huntshaw Cross transmitter group, serving North Devon, will make the switch to digital. Later in July 09, the Redruth transmitter group, serving west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will see analogue turned off. Then, in August 2009. [...]

Plans are being drawn up for “Channel 6” – a nationwide local TV service. The group United for Local Television is campaigning for a UK-wide network of local TV stations to fill the void in local TV news and content that’s not being servced by the BBC and ITV. Campaigners include local TV operators, voluntary [...]

It’s the first of March, and Show 24 of FrequencyCast has just been released. Yes – 24 shows… we’ve reached our second birthday. Thanks for being with us for the ride! Here’s what we cover in today’s show: News Updates: An end to the High Def DVD format wars, BBC on the iPhone, the US [...]

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UK Podcast Team, FrequencyCast has released an audio podcast providing help on the Digital Switchover. This follows results of our survey telling us that 39% of our listeners and visitors aren’t ready for analogue TV to be switched off. See our press release for more. Our “Unofficial Guide to The Digital Switchover” looks at the [...]

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We’re taking a straw poll from our listeners to find out how many folk are ready for the Digital TV Switchover, to help with an upcoming podcast feature we’re planning. We’d appreciate your vote: Click here to vote

The Analogue switch-off is upon us. In the early hours of this morning, the first part of the UK to switch to a digital service, lost its analogue BBC2. That part of the country, was Cumbria’s Whitehaven, in the North West of England. The transmitter, serving around 25,000 homes, made the switch at 2am, under [...]

Between now and 2012, the UK has to “go digital”. The extra choice is great, and more and more people are switching. But is it all good news? Are you happy with the switch-off of analogue telly? Should we wait till we’re ready, or plough ahead? We have a new pages of notes at www.frequencycast.co.uk/analogueswitchoff.html [...]