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Digital switchover schedule

Digital switchover in the UK is taking place TV region by TV region, as shown below.
For more details, see Digital UK - When do I switch?

Anglia

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Sandy Heath Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire starts 2011
Sudbury parts of Suffolk and Essex starts 2011
Tacolneston Norfolk and north Suffolk starts 2011

Border (including Isle of Man)

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Selkirk Scottish Borders completed
Douglas Isle of Man completed
Caldbeck Cumbria, south-west Scotland and the south Lakes completed

Central

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Bromsgrove Bromsgrove area starts 2011
Fenton Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme starts 2011
Lark Stoke Stratford upon Avon area starts 2011
Nottingham Nottingham area starts 2011
Oxford Oxfordshire, parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire starts 2011
Ridge Hill Herefordshire, north Gloucestershire and south Shropshire starts 2011
Sutton Coldfield much of the West Midlands starts 2011
The Wrekin north Shropshire and south Cheshire starts 2011
Waltham parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and south Nottinghamshire starts 2011

Channel Islands

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Fremont Point Channel Islands starts November 2010

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Granada

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Winter Hill Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and north Staffordshire starts 4 November 2009

London

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Crystal Palace Greater London and parts of the Home Counties starts 2012

Meridian

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Bluebell Hill north and mid Kent starts 2012
Dover south and east Kent starts 2012
Hannington parts of Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey starts 2012
Hastings Hastings area starts 2012
Heathfield East Sussex starts 2012
Margate Margate area starts 2012
Midhurst much of West Sussex starts 2012
Rowridge Hampshire, Isle of Wight, parts of Dorset and West Sussex starts 2012
Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge Wells area starts 2012
Whitehawk Hill Brighton area starts 2012

STV Central

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Torosay south-west Highlands and Islands starts 13 October 2010
Darvel parts of central Scotland, Argyll and Bute starts April-June 2011
Rosneath VP Rosneath starts April-June 2011
Black Hill Glasgow, central Scotland and parts of Edinburgh starts April-June 2011
Craigkelly Lothian, parts of Edinburgh and Fife starts April-June 2011

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STV North

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Bressay Shetland Islands starts 5 May 2010
Keelylang Hill Orkney Islands starts 12 May 2010
Rumster Forest Caithness and north Sutherland starts 2 June 2010
Eitshal Lewis, Wester Ross, north-west Sutherland and
parts of Harris and Skye
starts 7 July 2010
Skriaig Skye, Harris, North Uist, Benbecula,
South Uist and parts of Barra
starts 14 July 2010
Angus Angus, Dundee, Perth and parts of Fife starts 4 August 2010
Durris Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire starts 1 September 2010
Knockmore Morayshire, Strathspey and parts of Easter Ross starts 8 September 2010
Rosemarkie Inverness and the Great Glen starts 6 October 2010

Tyne Tees

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Bilsdale much of North Yorkshire and Cleveland starts 2012
Chatton north Northumberland starts 2012
Pontop Pike Durham and Tyneside starts 2012

Ulster

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Brougher Mountain south-west Northern Ireland starts 2012
Divis Belfast and surrounding area starts 2012
Limavady north-west Northern Ireland starts 2012

Wales

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Kilvey Hill Swansea area completed
Preseli south-west Wales completed
Carmel parts of south and central Wales completed
Llanddona north-west Wales completed
Moel-y-Parc north-east Wales completed
Long Mountain parts of east and central Wales starts 4 November 2009
Blaenplwyf parts of west and central Wales starts 10 February 2010
Wenvoe Cardiff, Newport and south-east Wales starts 3 March 2010

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West

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Mendip Bristol, parts of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire starts 24 March 2010

West Country

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Beacon Hill Torbay and south Devon completed
Stockland Hill Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset completed
Huntshaw Cross north Devon completed
Redruth West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly completed
Caradon Hill Plymouth, parts of Devon and east Cornwall completed

Yorkshire

Transmitter groupServingStatus
Belmont Lincolnshire, parts of Humberside and East Yorkshire starts 2011
Chesterfield Chesterfield area starts 2011
Emley Moor West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire starts 2011
Olivers Mount Scarborough area starts 2011
Sheffield Sheffield area starts 2011

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