Selkirk begins Scottish Digital TV switchover

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The Selkirk transmitter in the Scottish Borders will be the first area of Scotland to switchover to digital TV, with the rest of Scotland following into 2012:

BBC NEWS | Scotland | South of Scotland | Digital switch details unveiled

Scotland will begin the switch to digital television with the Selkirk transmitter on 6 November next year.

Whitehaven in Cumbria has already switched off its analogue signal but the Scottish Borders will be the first full region to switch over.

Digital UK, the company behind the introduction of the new service, said the process would continue with south-west Scotland in 2009.

Most other parts of Scotland will be switched over to digital in 2010.
The Scottish rollout will conclude with the Black Hill transmitter area, which includes Glasgow, in 2011.

Digital UK said that by 2010 anyone in the old Grampian TV area, effectively anyone north of Perth, would have to retune to the new digital service.

In central Scotland the switchover will begin in 2010 but it will not be completed until 2011.

The company said the size of population and the number of small relay transmitters meant it would be staged by transmitter over two years.

Scotland Digital TV switchover timetable:

Selkirk (Border) 6 November 2008
Caldbeck (Border) Q2 2009
Angus (STV North) 2010
Rosemarkie (STV North) 2010
Knockmore (STV North) 2010
Eitshal (STV North) 2010
Durris (STV North) 2010
Bressay (STV North) 2010
Rumster Forest (STV North) 2010
Keelylang Hill (STV North) 2010
Craigkelly (STV Central) 2010
Darvel (STV Central) 2010
Rosneath (STV Central) 2010
Black Hill (STV Central) 2011

[Analoguesat]

As a bonus for the site Im in a perfect position to report on developments over the next year - I can see Selkirk transmitter from our garden