Tonight at 2am THIS SWITCH is going to be turned off, ending the BBC 2 transmission and marking the start of the UK turning off it’s analogue TV service. As you can see, the jolly wag engineers have wished it a fond goodbye, by draping bunting over it and the BBC analogue rack that is … Continue reading Whitehaven:THE OFF SWITCH: Process Podcast
The services of the local Town Crier were brought in today to ring out the message that Analogue is ending in Whitehaven today and Digital TV is coming. Standing in the beautiful grounds of St Nicholas church, dressed in his fine robes, he regaled us and those standing around with a fine demonstration. Just a … Continue reading Whitehaven Switchover: Town Crier Rings Out The Digital Changes
The Jericho Primary School in Whitehaven today held a ‘Goodbye analogue’ assembly on the eve of tomorrow’s digital switchover, where analogue TV transmissions will be turned off for the first time in the UK. The headteacher and staff couldn’t have been more helpful, as members of the press from around the world converged on the … Continue reading Whitehaven Jericho Primary School: Goodbye Analogue Assembly (Podcasts)
I suspect that you’re not going to be surprised to hear that the local paper for Whitehaven is called the Whitehaven News. It may surprise you that they’ve has been knocking out news stories since 1852 – making it all the more incredible that it’s now at the leading the charge for digital Switchover in … Continue reading UK Analogue Switch Off: Whitehaven Diaries 2
I was knocking around Whitehaven yesterday afternoon after a journey that started for me on Sunday evening when I left the Isle of Wight. As I’ve come nearly the full length of the country to cover something that could, if we were a less caring publication, be done from behind a desk with a hot … Continue reading UK Analogue Switch Off: Whitehaven Diaries 1
We’re dragging our sorry bones up to Whitehaven, Cumbria to join the media bandwagon to witness the first UK town to have their analogue TV signal to be turned off. We’ve covered the build up to this pretty extensively, as it’s a major change to the way that television is received by ‘normal’ punters – … Continue reading Whitehaven Analogue Switch-Off Coverage Ahoy!
We’re travelling to Whitehaven for the first analogue TV switch off in the UK. A long journey from London.
DigitalUK is wisely taking a structured approach to changing Whitehaven to Digital. It will form the blueprint for the rest of the UK.
(Update: Details of the switch over process) Today the date of the start of switchover to Digital TV of the first English town was announced as 17 October 2007. Being cautious types, they’re only going to be switching off one analogue channel to start, BBC 2, with BBC1, ITV and Channel 4 going dark over … Continue reading Whitehaven Digital TV Switchover Date: 17 October 2007
A little over a year after the first Welsh towns switched over to Digital TV, the UK’s first towns are announced.