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BBC One, ITV1, S4C switched off † Ferryside: Ferryside and Llansteffan communities in Wales (approx 1200 people in around 500 properties) 30 March 2005 ^† BBC Two was not switched off until 19 August 2009 in conjunction with stage 1 of Ferryside's parent transmitter, Preseli. In addition, the digital multiplexes did not adopt their final ...
Luxembourg: Luxembourg was the first country to completely switch to digital broadcasting and shut down analog TV, completing the transition on Friday, 1 September 2006. The last analog transmitter was shut down on UHF Channel 21 on Friday, 31 December 2010. Moldova: Launched its first DTT service in November 2016.
From 1964 the BBC provided two analogue television services, BBC One and BBC Two. Both services carried a wide variety of content as well as regional variations in programming and sometimes continuity. Latterly the BBC Two variations have been limited to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In the United Kingdom, before the introduction of 24-hour television, there was no known legal protocol for a sign-off: BBC One and many ITV regions customarily included a continuity announcement, clock and the country's national anthem (for BBC One Wales and HTV Wales, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau was also played beforehand), while Granada and Channel 4 ...
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.
Though this analog broadcasting shutdown was isolated to a small, rural area, it was the first complete analog shutdown in Asia outside of Israel. [ 31 ] On April 20, 2011, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications confirmed that the analog terrestrial TV service will shut down on July 24 in 44 of the 47 prefectures.
31 March – BBC One Wales's analogue system shuts down after 58 years. 30 July – BBC Two broadcasts its final Working Lunch. 3 November – BBC One HD; a high-definition simulcast of a national version of BBC One is launched across all digital platforms. 18 December – BBC Switch is switched off.
As of October 2012, all analogue TV broadcasts have been shut down, and replaced by Freeview HD (an MPEG-2 DVB-T & MPEG-4 DVB-T2 SD & HDTV service). Northern Ireland was one of the last UK regions to switch off analogue signals and see the rollout of Freeview SD & HD.