Digital television transition

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||$N=Use dmy dates |date=__DATE__ |$B= }} The digital television transition, also called the digital switchover, the analog switch-off (ASO), or the analog shutdown, is the process, mainly begun in 2006 (for terrestrial broadcasting), in which older analog television broadcasting technology is converted to and replaced by digital television. Conducted by individual nations on different schedules, this primarily involves the conversion of analog terrestrial television to digital terrestrial. However, it also involves analog cable conversion to digital cable or internet protocol television, as well as analog to digital satellite television. Terrestrial transition was begun by some countries around 2000. By contrast, satellite transition was well underway or completed in many counties by this time. It is an involved process because the existing analog television receivers owned by viewers cannot receive digital broadcasts; viewers must either purchase new digital TVs, or converter boxes which change the digital signal to an analog signal or some other form of a digital signal (i.e. HDMI) which can be received on the older TV.

In many countries, a simulcast service is operated where a broadcast is made available to viewers in both analog and digital at the same time. As digital becomes more popular, it is expected that the existing analog services will be removed. In most places this has already happened, where a broadcaster has offered incentives to viewers to encourage them to switch to digital. In other cases government policies have been introduced to encourage or force the switchover process, especially with regard to terrestrial broadcasts. Government intervention usually involves providing some funding for broadcasters and, in some cases, monetary relief to viewers, to enable a switchover to happen by a given deadline. Governments can also require all receiving equipment sold in a country to support the necessary digital reception 'tuner'.

The switchover process is being accomplished on different schedules in different countries; in some countries it is being implemented in stages as in Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, where each region has a separate date to switch off. In others, the whole country switches on one date, such as the Netherlands, which switched off its analog terrestrial services on 11 December 2006.^[1] On 3 August 2003, Berlin became the world's first city to switch off terrestrial analog signals.^[2] Luxembourg was the first country to complete its terrestrial switchover, in September 2006.^[3]

Timeline

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Transition progress:
    Transition completed; all analog signals terminated
    Transition partially completed; most analog signals terminated
    Transition in progress; broadcasting both analog and digital signals
    Transition in early phases or has not yet started
    Broadcasts analog signals only
    No information available

2001: United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland (satellite services)
2002: Faroe Islands
2006: Luxembourg (terrestrial), Netherlands
2007: Andorra, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland
2008: Germany
2009: Denmark, Isle of Man, Norway, United States (full power stations)
2010: Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Guernsey, Jersey, Japan (northeastern Ishikawa Prefecture only), Latvia, Luxembourg (cable television and satellite), San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom (Wales)
2011: Austria, Canada (major markets), Cyprus, France, Israel, Japan (except earthquake-affected prefectures), Malta, Monaco, Turkey, United Kingdom (Scotland)
2012: Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Republic of Ireland (terrestrial), Italy, Japan (Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi Prefectures), Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom (England and Northern Ireland)
2013: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary, North Macedonia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Poland
2014: Serbia, Iceland, Namibia, Algeria
2015: Belarus, Brunei, Greece, Iran, Morocco (UHF band), Mexico, Moldova, Romania (UHF band), Rwanda, Turkey, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Georgia
2016: Bermuda, Brazil (Federal District and the city of Rio Verde, Goiás), Mongolia, Ukraine, Chile, China (CCTV), Burundi
2017: Brazil (a few metropolitan areas, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, among others), Philippines (Light Network), Romania (phase 2), Germany Unitymedia
2018: Brazil (major markets, including all markets in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo states), Romania (VHF band)^[4], Thailand (most channels), Ukraine, Uzbekistan
2019: Russia, Bolivia, Singapore^[5]^[6], India (phase one), Moldova (transnistria), Peru (Lima and Callao), Sri Lanka, Costa Rica
2020: Brazil (other markets), China (commercial stations), Morocco (VHF band), Panama, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand (Channel 3), Paraguay, Venezuela, Moldova (Other territory’s), Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire
2021: Dominican Republic,^[7] United States (low-power stations), India (phase two), Colombia^[8], Argentina^[9]
2022: Canada (remaining markets), El Salvador
2023: Cuba, Philippines (remaining markets)^[10], India (last phase), Peru (Rest of country)
2023->: Vietnam
Unknown: Iran, South Africa, Uruguay

Other information

The Geneva 2006 Agreement set 17 June 2015 as the date after which countries may use frequencies currently assigned for analog television transmission for digital services, without being required to protect the analog services of neighbouring countries against interference. This date was generally viewed as an internationally mandated analog switch-off date, at least along national borders.^[11] The European Commission has recommended that digital switchover should be completed by 1 January 2012 - Commission Recommendation 2009/848/EC, of 28 October 2009.^[12]

Satellite and Cable

Satellite broadcasting switched to digital much earlier than terrestrial broadcasting. The switchover process is much easier for satellite since only changes to the earth station equipment are needed on the transmission side and consumers are already used to having a set top box/decoder. In many places, the satellite switchover was complete before terrestrial switchover was even started. Cable on the other hand would switch off months, if not years after terrestrial did.

Terrestrial Digital switchover at a glance

Digital switchover by country
Country	DTT transmission commenced	Switch-over commenced	Switch-over completed
Albania			main}}
Algeria			main}}
Andorra			main}}
Argentina	main}}
Armenia			main}}
Australia^[13]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Austria			main}}
Azerbaijan			main}}
Belgium	16 July 2002 (RTBF) 31 May 2004 (VRT)	main}}	main}} (RTBF) 3 November 2008 (VRT)
Bolivia			November 2019^[14]
Brazil^[15]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Brunei	main}}	main}}	main}}^[16]
Bulgaria	main}}	main}}	main}}
Cambodia	main}}
Canada	main}}	main}}	main}}
Chile		2012	2020
China	main}}	main}} (CCTV) TBD (private broadcasters)	main}} (CCTV)
Colombia			main}}
Costa Rica			15 August 2019^[17]
Croatia^[18]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Cuba			2023^[19]
Cyprus			main}}
Czech Republic^[20]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Denmark	main}}		main}}
Dominican Republic			main}}
El Salvador	main}}	main}}	2022
Estonia			main}}
Finland	main}} (test) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (properly)		main}}
France^[21]	{{#invoke:Dts\|main}}	main}}	main}}
Gabon			main}}
Ghana			June 2015
Georgia			main}}
Germany		main}}	main}}
Greece	main}}	main}}	main}}
Guernsey			main}}
Hungary^[22]^[23]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Iceland			main}}
HongKong	main}}	main}}	main}}
India	main}}	main}}	main}}^[24]
Indonesia	main}} (as DVB-T) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (as DVB-T2)	main}}	main}}
Iran	2009	TBD	TBD
Ireland^[25]	main}}		main}}
Isle of Man			main}}
Israel		main}}	main}}
Italy	main}}	main}}	main}}
[[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Côte d’Ivoire\|border\|25x20px\|テンプレート:Country alias Côte d’Ivoireの旗]] Côte d’Ivoire	main}}	TBD	TBD
Japan^[26]	main}}	main}} (Northeastern Ishikawa)	main}} (Rest of Ishikawa and 43 other prefectures) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima prefectures)
[[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias JER\|border\|25x20px\|テンプレート:Country alias JERの旗]] Jersey			main}}
North Korea	main}}	TBD	TBD
South Korea	main}}	main}}	main}}
Kosovo			TBD
Latvia			main}}
Lithuania	main}}		main}}
North Macedonia	main}}	main}}	main}}
Malaysia	main}}	main}}	TBD
Malta			main}}
Mauritius			main}}
Mexico^[27]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Monaco			main}}
Montenegro			main}}
Moldova			March 2020
Morocco			main}}
Myanmar		main}}	2020^[28]
ナミビアの旗 Namibia			main}}
Netherlands			main}}
New Zealand^[29]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Norway	main}}	main}}	main}}
Paraguay^[30]	main}}		main}}
Peru	main}}	main}}	main}}
Philippines	main}}	main}}	main}}^[10]
Poland	main}}	main}}	main}}
Portugal	main}}	main}}	main}}
Qatar	main}}		main}}
Romania	main}}	main}}	main}}^[31]
Russia	main}}	{{#invoke:Dts\|main}}	{{#invoke:Dts\|main}}
Rwanda			31 July 2014^[32]^[33]
San Marino			main}}
Saudi Arabia	main}}		main}}
Serbia	main}}	main}}	main}}
Singapore	main}}	main}}	main}}^[34]^[6]
Slovakia^[35]^[36]^[37]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Slovenia		main}}	main}}
[[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias SAF\|border\|25x20px\|テンプレート:Country alias SAFの旗]] South Africa	main}}^[38]	main}}^[39]	TBD^[40]^[41]
Spain^[42]^[43]	main}}	main}}	main}}
Sudan			main}}
Sweden	main}}	main}}	main}}
Switzerland		main}}	main}}
Taiwan	main}}	main}}	main}}
Tanzania			July 2014
Thailand	main}}	main}}	main}}
Tunisia^[44]	main}}	main}}	main}}
United Arab Emirates	main}}		main}}
United Kingdom^[45]	main}}	main}}	main}} (Wales) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (Scotland) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (England) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (Northern Ireland)
United States^[46]	main}}	main}}	main}} (full power stations)^[47] {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (Class-A low power stations) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (Remaining low power stations)
Ukraine	main}}	main}}	main}} (Other teretories) {{#invoke:Dts\|main}} (UA:PBC)
Uzbekistan			main}}
ベネズエラの旗 Venezuela			2020^[48]
Vietnam	main}}	main}}	main}}^[49]
ザンビアの旗 Zambia			main}}

Transitions around the world

Transitions completed

Africa

アルジェリア: Digital broadcasting started in 2009, analog signals were switched off on 10 November 2014.^[50]
ガボン had turned off all analog signals on 17 June 2016.^[51]
ガーナ: Analog switch-off occurred in June 2015, switching to DVB-T.^[52]
ケニア: Analog switch off was supposed to take place in 2013, however media houses challenged the move in court and the switch off has since been moved to 31 December 2014 for the metropolitan areas and their surroundings while in the rest of the country switched to DVB-T2 in March 2015.
モーリシャス: Analog shut off on 17 June 2014. Switched to DVB-T.^[53]
ナミビアの旗ナミビア: Analog signals were terminated on 13 September 2014.
ルワンダ: Shut off the last of its analog signals in March 2014. Switched to DVB-T,^[53] with plans to upgrade to DVB-T2 in the future.^[54]
タンザニア: Shut off the last of its analog signals in July 2014. Switched to DVB-T2^[53]^[55]
ザンビアの旗ザンビア: Analog shut off on 31 December 2014. Switched to DVB-T2.^[56]^[57]

Americas

[[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Bermuda|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias Bermudaの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias Bermuda|テンプレート:Country alias Bermuda]]: The Bermuda Broadcasting Company terminated terrestrial NTSC-M broadcasts in March 2016. ZFB-TV (analog channel 7) and ZBM-TV (analog channel 9), the two television stations in Bermuda, have now switched to digital channels 20.1 and 20.2, respectively.^[58] Like its parent nation (the United Kingdom) and unlike the United States, Canada and the Bahamas (which have been transitioning to ATSC), Bermuda switched over to DVB-T.
メキシコ: Digital broadcasts started in 2000, with the first being Tijuana's XETV – an English-language television station that primarily served San Diego, California between the 1960s and the early 2010s. Analog shutdown was originally scheduled to occur in 2012, but on Thursday, 2 September 2010, Mexican government advanced the analog shutdown from 2012 to 2015.^[59] From 2013, areas began to be switched over regionally depending on the presence of digital terrestrial stations and a campaign headed by the SCT to distribute free television converters to households on the government welfare rolls. The first digital switchover was to begin on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 in Tijuana, but was postponed to 18 July due to the 2013 Baja California state elections.^[60] The switchover was completed nationwide on 31 December 2015, when all remaining analog television stations left the air.^[27] Mexico then instituted a nationwide remapping of network stations in late 2015 requiring most of them to map to the channel number in either Mexico City, or for regional networks, the main metro area served by the network's flagship station.

Asia

バーレーン: The analog terrestrial transmissions were terminated on Monday, 13 February 2012 and was replaced by a multiplex for Nilesat. The government plans to shut off analog cable by 31 March 2023. Bahrain was transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on Sunday, 26 August 2012. Bahrain adopted DVB-T2 in March 2013. Analog satellite transmission were switched off on Monday, 1 March 2004. Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Arab world on Thursday, 20 September 2007 (known as Nilesat).

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Analog closedown warning broadcast in Japan.

日本: The analog shutdown began on 24 July 2010 in Suzu, Ishikawa as a pilot experiment. Analog terrestrial television transmissions in the remainder of Ishikawa Prefecture and 43 other prefectures, as well as analog Broadcast Satellite and Wowow services, ended at noon on Sunday 24 July 2011, along with the analog satellite services; three remaining prefectures (Fukushima, Iwate, and Miyagi) that were destroyed or heavily damaged in the 11 March 2011 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake and its related nuclear accidents stopped analog broadcasting at noon on Saturday, 31 March 2012.^[61] In both of those cases, the analog transmitters themselves were switched off at midnight on the same day. Analog high-definition television broadcasting ended on Sunday, 30 September 2007.^[62] Like Netherlands, Germany and Sweden, an analog cable service (known as Dejiana since 1 July 2011) continued to be broadcast, but starting on 1 April 2012, all cable providers in Japan were required to convert from analog to digital services. Most analog cable services were terminated between 24 July 2011 and April 2015.^[63] All television stations across the country are now broadcasting only in digital, ending an analog-digital simulcast period that began on Monday 1 December 2003 in the Kantō region (which expanded to all other prefectures over the next four years) and ended between 24 July 2011 and 31 March 2012 (when all analog transmissions were shut down).
"「Digital terrestrial television in Japan」"
韓国: Digital switchover progressed region–by–region, with the first analog transmitters in Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province ending transmissions on Wednesday, 1 September 2010.^[64] Analog broadcasting official officially ended Monday 31 December 2012 at 04:00 KST when the analog cable television and analog transmitters in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon ended transmissions. A few border analog transmitters targeting North Korea テンプレート:Failed verification span^[65]
カタール: The analog terrestrial transmissions were terminated on Monday, 13 February 2012 and was replaced by a multiplex for Nilesat. The government plans to shut off analog cable by 31 March 2023. Qatar was transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on Sunday, 26 August 2012. Qatar adopted DVB-T2 in February 2013. Analog satellite transmission were switched off on Monday, 1 March 2004. Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Arab world on Monday, 1 January 2001 (known as Nilesat).
サウジアラビア: The analog terrestrial transmissions were terminated on Monday, 13 February 2012 and was replaced by a multiplex for Nilesat. The government plans to shut off analog cable by 31 March 2023. Saudi Arabia was transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on Sunday, 26 August 2012. Saudi Arabia adopted DVB-T2 in March 2013. Analog satellite transmission were switched off on Monday, 1 March 2004. Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Arab world on Monday, 1 January 2001 (known as Nilesat).
シンガポール launched digital terrestrial television under MediaCorp in June 2006 (DVB-T) and December 2013 (DVB-T2). The country announced that free-to-air broadcaster MediaCorp will transmit all its free-to-air channels digitally in DVB-T2. In 2016, it was announced that analogue TV channels would cease its broadcast by the end of 2017 and MediaCorp TV channels will be broadcast in digital only.^[66] On 6 November 2017, IMDA announced that it had further extended their analogue broadcasting until 31 December 2018 (extended from the intended date of 19 February 2018), in order to facilitate more time for Singapore households to switch to digital TV as soon as possible. On the same day, an "Analogue" watermark was placed on the bottom of the channel logos (and later since 17 September 2018, reduced screen sizes with information on switching digital television^[67]) to differentiate televisions using analogue broadcasts.^[5] On 21 December 2018, the broadcast was extended by one day. At 00:00 on 2 January 2019, the digital transition was completed and normal programming on all analogue television signals was replaced by an information screen; the analogue signals ceased transmitting altogether on 6 January 2019.^[6]
台湾: Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Taiwan on Friday, 2 July 2004. Analog terrestrial television ended transmission on Saturday, 30 June 2012. The shut down of analog cable television is in progress.
アラブ首長国連邦: The analog terrestrial transmissions were terminated on Monday, 13 February 2012 and was replaced by a multiplex for Nilesat. The government plans to shut off analog cable by 31 March 2023. United Arab Emirates were transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on Sunday, 26 August 2012. United Arab Emirates adopted DVB-T2 in February 2013. Analog satellite transmission were switched off on Monday, 1 March 2004. Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Arab world on Monday, 1 January 2001 (known as Nilesat).
ウズベキスタン: Completed digital Transition in December 2018

Europe

アンドラ completed its switch-off on Tuesday 25 September 2007.^[68]
アルメニア: Has shut down analog signals on 10 July 2015.
オーストリア: Began analog switch-off on Monday, 5 March 2007, progressing from the west to the east.^[69] The analog broadcast was shut down nationwide at the end of 2010 regarding the main transmitters.^[70] The last analog translators were switched off on 7 June 2011.
アゼルバイジャン: Began analog switch-off on Sunday, 17 October 2010, completed on 17 June 2015.^[71]^[72]
ベラルーシ: Analogue broadcasting was disabled 15 May 2015 in UHF band and 16 June 2015 in the VHF band (channels 6-12). The final analogue switch-off occurred at the end of 2015.
ベルギー: Media regulations are under regional legislation. Flanders switched off analog television on Monday 3 November 2008, while in Wallonia, all analog services were switched off on Monday, 1 March 2010, making the country completely serviced by digital signal. However, analog cable is still used by many cable subscribers, so therefore a cable switchover is unlikely to happen in the near future.
ブルガリア: The analog signal was officially terminated on Monday, 30 September 2013.^[73]

"「Digital terrestrial television in Bulgaria」"

クロアチア: Analog television broadcasts were switched off for all national TV channels on Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 12:35 and for local TV channels on Saturday 20 November 2010.^[74]
キプロス terminated all analog transmissions on Thursday 30 June 2011 and moved to digital-only transmissions in MPEG-4 on Friday 1 July 2011.
チェコ: The last analog retransmitters in the south-east Moravia and the northern Moravia - Silesia were switched off on Saturday, 30 June 2012.
デンマーク switched off all terrestrial analog services at midnight on Sunday 1 November 2009.^[75] Analogue cable was switched off on 9 February 2016.^[76]
エストニア's analog television was switched off completely on Thursday, 1 July 2010.

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Analog closedown warning broadcast in Finland.

フィンランド ceased analog terrestrial transmissions nationwide at 04:00, Saturday, 1 September 2007^[77] (the switch-off was previously planned for midnight on 1 September but a few extra hours were added for technical reasons). This was controversial, as the cost of a digital TV set in Finland at the time was heavily criticised and saw a substantial decrease in how much the television license cost. Cable TV viewers continued to receive analog broadcasts until the end of February 2008.
フランス switched off all analog services (terrestrial, satellite and cable) on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. This included overseas departments and territories such as Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna.
ドイツ started the switch-off in the Berlin area, beginning on Friday, 1 November 2002 and completing on Monday 4 August 2003. "Simulcast" digital transmissions started in other parts of the country in an effort to prepare for a full switchover. The switch-off of terrestrial analog transmitters was completed on Tuesday 25 November 2007, except one main transmitter in Bad Mergentheim, which was shut down in June 2009. Analog satellite receivers were still used by 6% of households in 2010 - the highest in Europe. The analog satellite transmissions were switched off on Monday 30 April 2012, being the last in Europe. However, analog cable is still used by about 30% of the population and 55% of all cable broadcasts, so therefore a cable switchover is unlikely to happen in the near future. The cable TV provider Unitymedia switched off analog cable on 27 June 2017.^[78]
ジョージア (国): Analog broadcasts should have been switched off 17 June 2015, but due to the flooding in Tbilisi, which occurred on the night of 13 to 14 June 2015 analogue switch-off happened on 1 July 2015.^[79]
ギリシャ: The analog terrestrial transmissions were terminated on Friday, 6 February 2015.^[80]^[81]
ハンガリー: Hungarian analog terrestrial transmissions stopped on Thursday, 31 October 2013, after completing two phases that ended on 31 July and 31 October, respectively.
アイスランド: All analog terrestrial transmissions were switched off on Monday, 2 February 2015.^[82]^[83]^[84]
アイルランド: Digital television was launched in Ireland as Saorview on Friday 29 October 2010.^[25] At launch it had 5 standard-definition channels and 1 high-definition channel. The analog service was terminated on Wednesday 24 October 2012^[85] and was replaced by a second multiplex for Saorview. A small number of low power independent analog re-broadcast systems remained licensed until the Monday 31 December 2012.^[86] There has been no date released for the shutdown of analog cable, and many major cable companies (e.g. Virgin Media Ireland) are still actively offering analog. Analog satellite was discontinued on Thursday 27 September 2001, making the UK and Ireland the first countries in Europe with digital-only satellite.
イスラエル started digital transmissions in MPEG-4 on Sunday 2 August 2009 and analog transmissions ended on Thursday 31 March 2011.
イタリア: The conversion to digital television progressed region–by–region. It started in Sardinia on Wednesday 15 October 2008, and was completed on Wednesday 4 July 2012, when the last analog transmitters in the Province of Palermo were shut down.
ラトビア's analog television completely converted to digital broadcasting on Tuesday 1 June 2010.
リトアニア: The switch-off of the analog terrestrial transmissions was completed on Monday, 29 October 2012.
ルクセンブルク shut down their last analog transmitter on UHF Channel 21 on Friday 31 December 2010.
[[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias North Macedonia|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias North Macedoniaの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias North Macedonia|テンプレート:Country alias North Macedonia]]: Analog transmissions were terminated on Saturday, 1 June 2013.^[87]
マルタ terminated all analog services on Monday, 31 October 2011. The switch-off was originally planned for Wednesday 1 June 2011 but was delayed for unknown reasons.^[88]
モナコ switched off their analog TV broadcasts on Tuesday 24 May 2011.
モンテネグロ: Has shut down analog signals on 17 June 2015.^[89]
オランダ moved to digital-only terrestrial broadcasting on Monday, 11 December 2006, being the second country to do so. The switch-off was noticed by few, since the overwhelming majority receive TV via cable and only around 74,000 households relied on terrestrial over-the-air broadcasts.^[90] The switch-off was helped greatly as cable continued to use analog distribution, and thus consumers' old tuners continued to be useful. In March 2018, major cable provider Ziggo has announced that it will gradually phase out analogue cable TV transmissions in the next two years.^[91]
ノルウェー: The switch-off of the analog transmissions started in March 2008 and was completed on Tuesday 1 December 2009. Norway started its DTT service on the Saturday 1 September 2007.^[92]
ポーランド: The switch-off of the analog terrestrial transmissions was completed on Tuesday, 23 July 2013.
"「Digital terrestrial television in Poland」"
ポルトガル: Digital terrestrial broadcasts started on Wednesday 29 April 2009. Portugal's government hoped to cover 80% of the territory with digital terrestrial TV by the end of 2009, and simulcasts remained until Thursday 26 April 2012, when the analog broadcasting ended. This switchover began on Thursday 12 January 2012. Analog cable is still available from all pay-TV providers (including fiber), for homes with multiple televisions. There are no plans in place to switch-off analog cable. The digital versions of all channels have traditionally been encrypted and could only be accessed with a proprietary set-top-box, which subscribers had to pay for with a monthly fee. Starting in October 2017, cable provider NOS unencrypted the digital versions of its base channels, enabling them to be tuned directly by televisions with support for MPEG-4 (or digital terrestrial) or any freely available digital tuner.^[93] Channels belonging to subscription packs, as well as premium channels, still require a proprietary set top box to be viewed. Other pay-TV providers - Vodafone, NOWO and Meo - similarly no longer encrypt the digital versions of their base channels.
ルーマニア has one of the highest pay-TV penetration rates in Europe, with over 98% of homes receiving cable or satellite TV services. Also over 90% of population is covered with DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television signal. The last analog transmitters were switched off on 1 May 2018 when TVR decided to order the shut down due to low demand and high operating costs.^[94]
サンマリノ completed its switch-off on Thursday 2 December 2010.
セルビア launched its first DTT transmissions in 2005. The first DTT-only channel was made available in 2008. As of 2013, the DVB-T2 network covers Belgrade and much of Vojvodina, several cities in Šumadija and Western Serbia and the southern city of Niš.^[95] Digital TV switchover for 98% of citizens started on 1 September 2014. Transition progressed in six stages. First switchoff took place in Vršac on 15 April 2015.^[96] Last switchoff took place on 7 June 2015.
スロバキア: Slovakia finished analog transmission broadcasts on Monday, 31 December 2012.
スロベニア: The switch-off of main transmitters was completed on Wednesday 1 December 2010. The last local analog transmitters were switched off on Thursday 30 June 2011.

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Analog closedown warning broadcast in Spain

スペイン: The switch-off of the analog terrestrial transmissions was completed on Saturday 3 April 2010. The switch-off was successful, as about 70% of Spanish television transmissions are terrestrial, so it was easy for people to just switch to the digital signal. Spain started its DTT service on Wednesday 30 November 2005.^[97]
スウェーデン: The switch-off of the analog terrestrial network progressed region–by–region. It started on the island of Gotland on Monday, 19 September 2005, and was completed on Monday 15 October 2007, when the last analog SVT1 transmitters in Blekinge and western Scania were shut down.^[98] Like the Netherlands, Germany and Japan, cable distributors continued broadcasting analog television. Cable broadcasters continue to broadcast in analog (like the Netherlands and Germany), so therefore a cable switchover is unlikely to happen in the near future.
スイス began with the switch-off on Monday 24 July 2006 in Ticino and continued with Engadin on Monday 13 November 2006. The switch-off was completed on Monday 26 November 2007. A very high percentage of Swiss viewers receive their signals via cable distributors. By 2012 40% of cable viewers had switched to digital. Analog cable was switched off on 1 January 2017.^[99]
イギリス: Digital terrestrial broadcasting began in the UK on Sunday 15 November 1998 with the launch of the ONdigital, later renamed ITV Digital and now Freeview. The transition from analogue and digital to digital-only terrestrial signals started on Wednesday 17 October 2007 with the Whitehaven transmitter in Cumberland,^[100] and followed a transmitter switchover timetable, implemented by region. The first constituent country to switch off all its analogue signals was Wales on Wednesday 31 March 2010^[45] and the last region to switch off its analogue signals was Northern Ireland on Wednesday 24 October 2012.^[101] Analogue cable broadcasts eventually ended and fully ceased, on 28 November 2013, when Milton Keynes finally saw their service terminate, after a settling of a cable ownership dispute between BT Group and Virgin Media. Analogue satellite was discontinued on Thursday 27 September 2001, making the UK and Ireland the first countries in Europe with digital-only satellite. Analogue transmissions ceased in [[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Gibraltar|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias Gibraltarの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias Gibraltar|テンプレート:Country alias Gibraltar]] in December 2012, [[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Isle of Man|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias Isle of Manの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias Isle of Man|テンプレート:Country alias Isle of Man]] switched off all analogue services on Thursday 16 July 2009,^[102] while [[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Jersey|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias Jerseyの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias Jersey|テンプレート:Country alias Jersey]] and [[ファイル:テンプレート:Country flag alias Guernsey|border|25x20px|テンプレート:Country alias Guernseyの旗|link=]] [[テンプレート:Country alias Guernsey|テンプレート:Country alias Guernsey]] switched off their analogue signals on Wednesday 17 November 2010.
"「Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom」および「Digital switchover dates in the United Kingdom」"

Oceania

オーストラリア: Digital television commenced in Australia's five most populous cities on Monday 1 January 2001. The Mildura region was the first to terminate its analog network, on Wednesday 30 June 2010. Digital switchover was originally expected to be complete by Tuesday 31 December 2013, however, the last regions to switch over (Melbourne and Remote Eastern/Central Australia) did so slightly earlier, on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 9:00 am.^[13] Until the switch-off in the respective areas, free-to-air stations were simulcast, along with digital-only channels like ABC2. Cable television networks began simulcasting in 2004 and analog cable services were switched off in April 2007. The switchover was co-ordinated by the Digital Switchover Taskforce operating under the federal Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
ニュージーランド: Digital terrestrial television broadcasts began officially in April 2008. analog PAL switchoff started on 30 September 2012 with the North Island's Hawke's Bay region and the South Island's West Coast region and finished with the Upper North Island which was switched off 1 December 2013.^[103]
"「Freeview (New Zealand)」および「Digital changeover dates in New Zealand」"