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digital switchover

British  
/ ˈswɪtʃˌəʊvə /

noun

  1. the process of changing the method of transmitting television from analogue to digital format

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

An FM-based platform may be less useful in the UK, where the government is committed to digital switchover.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2014

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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