News, Comments and Press Releases on the Digital Switchover

Your home for news and comment on all matters to do with digital television and the great digital switchover

• NTl takeover Telewest
  ntl takeover Telewest - the merger is creating the U.K.'s second largest communications company and leading triple play service provider with a cable footprint covering more than 50 percent of U.K. households.
  
  
• Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention 2005 in Cambridge - Tessa Jowell
  15 September 2005 - Tessa Jowell Announces the Start of the Great Digital Switchover Analogue TV to be turned off by 2012 (Just in time for the Olympics?)
  
  
• Digital Switchover Statement by the Secretary of State
  21 July 2005 -Secretary of State Progress Report on the Digital Switchover. In the statement I made in this House last July, I said that I would report further material developments in the move towards digital switchover. I am pleased to say that good progress continues to be made.
  
  
• Broadband television
  Broadband television is poised to take off in the UK. For the first time, there are now more households with broadband than dial-up internet connections. 2005 was the year in which broadband became a genuinely mainstream consumer product, now present in almost 30% of all UK households and businesses and actively considered by many more.
  
  
• Welsh Trial
  Wednesday 30 March 2005 The purpose of the Trial has been to gauge the technical issues for broadcasters, multiplex operators and consumers associated with the digital switchover from analogue to digital television transmissions. The trial is a partnership between the Government, broadcasters and digital multiplex operators.