digital switchover
Britishnoun
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A Which? survey earlier this year found 91% of UK adults did not know the digital switchover was coming and people have been transferred without appreciating what was happening.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2021
White space uses the spare spectrum in the UHF band, no longer needed for television broadcasts following the digital switchover.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2017
Sales of electricals were dented by £1.2m as TV sales fell as a result of last year's digital switchover – when the analogue signal was switched off across London and shoppers upgraded their televisions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2013
The decision to end children's programming on terrestrial channels was agreed by the BBC Trust in March, as the BBC looked ahead to the digital switchover.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2012
Furthermore, they belong to the past: even before the digital switchover, there was no need for pirate TV in a world where YouTube had turned everyone into a potential broadcaster.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2012
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