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Austria: Began analog switch-off on 5 March 2007, progressing from the west to the east. [59] The analog broadcast was shut down nationwide at the end of 2010 regarding the main transmitters. [60] The last analog translators were switched off on 7 June 2011. Azerbaijan: Began analog switch-off on 17 October 2010, completed on 17 June 2015. [61 ...
June 12, 2009 – final hours of analog broadcast on WWL-TV gave information about website and telephone number for more information about transition.. The digital television transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.
The digital switchover was the process by which analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom was replaced with digital terrestrial television. It is sometimes referred to as the "analogue switch off". In the United Kingdom, the terrestrial switchover started on 17 October 2007 and was completed on 24 October 2012. Each group of ...
2005 also saw the announcement by the regulator Ofcom about the proposed analogue switch off plans for the UK. The switch off progressed on an ITV region by region basis that began in 2008 with the Border region, and ended in the UTV region in 2012. The coverage of the three public service broadcasting multiplexes is the same as that enjoyed by ...
It was originally planned for the analogue switch-off to occur on 31 December 2002, but this was achieved 15 months earlier. The last three channels, Sky Premier, Sky One and Sky Sports 2, were switched off at 00:01 on 28 September 2001. [1] Sky analogue equipment could still pick up German channels until 30 April 2012 when they were shut down.
[5] [failed verification] As of the analog shut-off date of June 12, 2009, all full power OTA stations in the U.S. by law either transmitted their broadcasts digitally, or shut down. Many stations used the switch to digital transmission as an opportunity to transition from 480i broadcasts to digital HD OTA broadcasts (either in 720p or 1080i ...
The analog switch-off rendered all non-digital television sets unable to receive most over-the-air television channels without an external converter box; however, low-power television stations and cable TV systems were not required to convert to digital until 1 September 2015.
The final region to switch off was Northern Ireland, on 23 October, 2012. To dedicate the permanent switching-off of analogue in Northern Ireland, and, by extension, the United Kingdom, BBC One (only Northern Irish variation) and UTV together aired "The Magic Box", a programme dedicated to analogue TV: it became the last programme broadcast in ...