U K Commences Switch from Analogue to Digital TV

The switch from analogue to digital television began in the United Kingdom, yesterday with the Copeland and Whitehaven areas of Cumbria in the North West of England losing their BBC2 terrestrial signal. The process of changing all TV transmissions to digital nationally, is expected to be completed by 2012.

Australian analogue television transmissions are scheduled to commence being shut down in February 2009.