Digital UK

Digital Switchover and TG4/RTÉ coverage improvements

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 1, 2012, 5:11 pm

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In a just under two month’s time, analogue television broadcasting will have gone for good in the UK and Ireland. During September the English Tyne Tees region will switchover to digital, leaving a coordinated transition in Ireland during October. In short: Analogue transmission of BBC Two will cease on 10 October and the frequency will be used to broadcast the BBC’s Freeview multiplex (bundle) of channels. Freeview set top boxes/TVs will need to be retuned. Analogue transmissions of BBC One, …

Digital Switchover – analogue TV signals stop on 24 October 2012, but RTE1/2 and TG4 will be available digitally right across Ireland

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on October 17, 2011, 9:00 am

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Denis Wolinski and Digit Al unveil digital switchover date

In primary school – P4 or P5 – I remember listening to a short current affairs educational radio programme that mentioned the new concept of cable TV and channels arriving in homes through coaxial cable rather than aerials. It was at least another ten years before CableTel started to dig up the streets of Belfast. Early cable TV systems were analogue, but they paved the way for today’s bewildering choice of television transmission technologies that now includes cable, satellite, digital …