Catalogue description Digital Television Website

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Reference: PF 7
Title: Digital Television Website
Description:

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Digital Television website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].
Date: From 2002
Arrangement:

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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 2007-2009

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2009-2016

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
Physical description: archived website(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Gathered from original website.
Accruals: Future website versions may be anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Digital Television website is a joint-government website between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and its successors the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

The website provides information about digital television matters and developments, including the digital switchover in the UK, involving switching-off the analogue terrestrial transmissions network and replacing it with an all-digital terrestrial network. The Government is responsible for the policy of digital switchover, including the 2008-2012 timetable and the establishment of a Help Scheme for those who may need practical assistance with switchover. Between 2008- 2012, television services in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region (the exception is Whitehaven in Cumbria which became the first place to switch in October 2007).

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